Last year was the perfect time to buy an SSD. For less than $100, you could get a couple of terabytes of really fast storage, even from the top brands. That's not the case now and you have to shop around to find a good deal, and the reason for this is simple: Samsung, the largest supplier of flash memory, has reduced production to such an extent that its factories are churning out 50% fewer chips than in the previous year.
News of this move (via ComputerBase) isn't particularly surprising as the industry had been talking about reducing output for a good while. However, the sheer size of the decrease is quite alarming and it's only going to mean that SSD prices will continue to rise, as the inventory of flash memory chips begins to dwindle.
