According to a South Korean news outlet, the major NAND flash memory makers like Samsung, Western Digital, and SK Hynix are boosting production, which could mean a reduction in SSD prices.
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TrendForce has warned of a 3-8% price increase for solid-state drives in the second quarter. It originally expected the price to remain steady but several production issues have cropped up.
The latest update for Windows 10 appears to be crashing on systems with certain Intel SSDs during upgrades. The news comes a week after stability workarounds on Linux were required for related drives.
Many USB SSD drives claim to get close to internal SSD speeds but very few do, with the USB Pocket SSD 120GB from VisionTek we see yet another company coming very close to reaching it though.
OCZ Technology, one of the biggest companies that makes solid state drives, has announced that it will file for bankruptcy and that Toshiba has an offer to buy most of OCZ's assets.
A group of researchers, including one from Microsoft Research, believe that solid state drives will have performance issues in the future as the circuitry inside those drives continues to decrease.
The maker of one of the most popular solid state drives, Kingston, predicts that prices for SSDs will finally cause the average consumer to pick them before regular hard drives by the end of 2012.
