Quick buy an SSD now before a potential big price hike

Date:
Thu, 10 Feb 2022 12:32:00 +0000

Description:
Analyst firm TrendForce has revised previously optimistic pricing
predictions, sadly.

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SSD pricing has been in something of a state of flux, because after some upward movement in 2021 , it was thought that drives could drop in price as 2022 began but that prediction has potentially just changed to an extent.

Previously, analyst firm TrendForce believed that NAND Flash prices would,
due to a slight oversupply, drift downwards by 8% to 13% in Q1 of 2022, and drop again by 5% to 10% in Q2.

However, a new development is a material contamination incident in late January at WDC and Kioxia production lines in Japan, which will have a sizeable impact, as it involved some 6.5 Exabytes (an Exabyte is a billion Gigabytes) of 3D NAND.

TrendForce wrote: The impact of WDCs material contamination issue is significant and Samsungs experience during the previous lockdown of Xian due to the pandemic has also retarded the magnitude of the NAND Flash price
slump.

The result being TrendForces prediction and remember, this is still just a forecast, not cast-iron by any means is that while Q1 NAND pricing will
still decline, it wont drop by as much: it could fall by around 5% to 10%.
And moreover, in Q2, rather than a drop, we could see a spike in pricing of
5% to as much as 10%. Analysis: Flash incident likely to have a knock-on effect with SSD pricing

These NAND flash chips are used in SSDs, and as the analyst firm observes,
WDC and Kioxia production is primarily focused on SSDs and eMMC drives for PCs, so pricing increases if they happen would have a knock-on effect. So
in Q2 (maybe from April), the prices of at least some SSD models could rise.

The conclusion being that if youre risk averse, and planning to get an SSD in the near future, then now, or in the next month or so, might be a good time
to pull the trigger. And dont forget, for bargain hunters, weve got a guide
to the best cheap SSD deals . We show you how to build a PC



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