Pricing for harddrives has been relatively stable for more than 2 years. This trend is expected to continue. The exception is prices for disk capacities below 80 GB. These prices have fallen as demand has dropped.
SSD Drives are still more expensive than conventional HDD. An SSD Drive now costs about $2 per gigabyte while a HDD drive costs less than $1 per gigabyte. The price of an SSD continues to improve (SSD drives once sold for more than $25 per gigabyte), and with manufacturing volumes anticipated, the price difference should be further reduced.
SSDs are an ideal storage solution for netbooks. You can buy an 80 GB HDD for $30-$35, but that would only get you 15 GB of flash capacity. At the current technology node (42 nm), it is not possible to manufacture at $1/GB, but when the manufacturing node reaches 24 nm, this price looks feasible. Look for 24 nm volume production in 2011.
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