Whether a consequence of the floods that affected "classic" hard drive manufacturers in 2011 or a favorable economic situation, the price of SSD hard drives seems to be decreasing endlessly in the United States.

The price of SSD hard drives is expected to fall below US$1/GB in the second half of 2012, compared to US$1.56/GB in 2011.

The constant increase in the use of flash memory data storage by companies, as well as lower prices and the development of technologies, seems to further increase the popularity of this type of storage.

In the short term, the SSD hard drive seems to be a fallback solution following the shortage of traditional hard drives due to the floods in Thailand. Indeed, manufactured in Korea and Japan, the production of these hard drives was not affected by the disaster.