Seagate: Stop Dreaming, SSDs Will NEVER be as Cheap as HHD Short Bytes: Solid State Drives are slowly taking the place of the vintage Hard Disk Drives and our computers are getting faster. According to many experts and analysis, cheaper NAND flash memory will eliminate the use of HDDs in coming years. But, the reality is a little distorted. The rate, at which the prices of HDDs are decreasing, is much faster than the reduction in the prices of SSDs. T he leading storage solutions maker Seagate Technology claims that no matter how cheap the SSDs get in the upcoming times, it will never match the price of HDDs. To be precise, the cost of one GB on HDDs will become as cheap as half of a penny. The claims should be considered pretty believable as Seagate is one of the biggest hard drive makers. This prediction of Seagate doesn’t match the predictions made by SanDisk and Toshiba. According to them, the cost of enterprise-class SSDs will be as low as the enterprise-class