DRAM And NAND Chip Makers Are Determined To Drive Up DDR5 And SSD Prices

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DRAM And NAND Chip Makers Are Determined To Drive Up DDR5 And SSD Prices
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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.

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.

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 Write

Random 4k
44.89 Read 108.33 Write