Seagate and Western Digital are way too busy making money hand over fist selling hard drives :) A lot of the SSD companies aren't really making that much money

Seagate and Western Digital are way too busy making money hand over fist selling hard drives :) A lot of the SSD companies aren't really making that much money. The fabs to make the memory chips are huge capital investments and suppliers have historically been bad at managing supply and demand leading to volatile pricing. Hence the current drop in prices cited in the original article.