DRAM And NAND Chip Makers Are Determined To Drive Up DDR5 And SSD Prices
DRAM And NAND Chip Makers Are Determined To Drive Up DDR5 And SSD Prices
There are factors at play that could drive up system memory and solid state drive (SSD) prices throughout the course of 2024.
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You keep raising the prices and I keep not buying.
They are rising from rock bottom, I just bought a 4tb gen 3 nvme for $230 Cad
It's like gas prices early in the pandemic, but not quite as bad.
They grossly overproduced, sat on a stockpile that couldn't sell which costs them a ton and had to sell them for nothing. There's nowhere for the price to go but up.
Keep them there.
How fast is it? A lot of m.2's are cheap because they're slow.
I bought a WD Black 4TB gen4 nvme for just under $200 over the holidays.
The listing says up to 7,300MB/s. I only have a gen3 SSD slot so I can't verify that but it saturates the gen3 capabilities.
It is so frustrating trying to buy a nvme ssd because they make it so unclear which models have DDR and which don't. I tried to buy one recently to upgrade a family member's computer and was wondering how a non technical person has any chance of finding something decent.
MB/s
Seq 1M Q8T1
1Gb
2838 Read 2255 Write
4Gb
1419 Read 2239 WriteRandom 4k
44.89 Read 108.33 Write
Seriously, a lot of weirdly negative comments here.
Yeah, it's not great that prices go up, but a few months ago was the lowest price for memory and storage we have ever seen in all of history. 40€/TB at the low end for SSDs. That's absolutely insane. It was entirely expected for prices to rise a bit again.
Where?