Kingston: SSDs to hit 50 cents per GB this year

The website Hardware.info spoke to Kingston spokesman David Leong at CES 2013 in Las Vegas and according to him the price per GB of SSDs will drop significantly. At the moment it's easy to find a 128 GB drive that goes for around $100. This makes that the current price per GB is somewhere between $0.75 and $1.00.

According to Leong this will drop to about $0.50 in the coming year. The lower price should enable more consumers to purchase products that contain a SSD. Yesterday a spokesman of Sandisk also said to expect price drops for SSDs this year, but not as dramatic as in 2012.

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Kingston also showed some other interesting things at CES, they showcased a system with 16 Kingston SSDs in RAID 0 that was benchmarked with IOmeter at a whopping 5955 MB/s.

Another setup shows 24 enterprise class SSDs that together are good for 1,800,000 IOPS, 7000 MB/s reads and 4000 MB/s writes. More information and pictures can be found here.

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