SSD prices 50% down since 2011

The TechReport and Arstechnica both report that SSD drive prices steadily decline. The TechReport shows a wide array of graphs showing the price drops of numerous SSD drives. It makes clear that SSD price drops have affected SSDs of all manufacturers and of all capacities. There seem to be several reasons for this, one of them is the competitive market. Many brands share parts of the same component supplier and are therefor relatively similar. To obtain a place in the market, brand use the price as a way to differentiate.

Of course also the scale of which SSD sales have become is important, the technology has become more common and therefor manufacturing prices dropped.  And according to Arstechnica we can expect prices to remain low. Memory has always been a pretty unstable product, price wise. Recently  the prices for NAND memory have  plunged but if manufacturers decide to lower their output, they could rise again.