SSD pricing set to skyrocket for 2TB or bigger models, so buy now or you
could regret it

Date:
Thu, 18 Jan 2024 13:13:16 +0000

Description:
Weve been hearing a fair bit about price increases for SSDs recently, and heres yet more from the rumor mill.

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SSDs going up in price has been a strong thread via the rumor mill for some time now, and we now have another suggestion that price tags could shoot up for higher capacity consumer drives .

Toms Hardware reports that according to an industry source, 3D NAND packages that consist of four and eight NAND modules are now in short supply. Its 2TB and 4TB SSDs that typically use those packages, and manufacturers are now struggling to secure supply.

The upshot will theoretically be that drives in this capacity range in particular are likely to skyrocket (the exact word used by the source) in price, which sounds ominous indeed.

Therefore, if youre looking at buying an SSD in the 2TB to 4TB area, it might be better to move quickly on that purchase.

Price hikes are already evident, in fact, but much more significant increases could happen later this quarter, in just a couple of months (maybe three months at the outside, were told). Analysis: A weight of rumors

This is just a rumor, of course, so we must regard it with caution as with
all speculation, but its perfectly believable given the current climate
around these PC components, and the rumors already out there about SSD price hikes in recent times .

Analyst firm TrendForce has been the source of some of that theorizing, and the company has just chipped in with a new report for January 2024 which foresees demand for PCIe 4.0 SSDs gaining traction, and a possible 15% to 20% jump in consumer SSD prices in the near future.

Ironically, part of the issue is NAND makers cutting production of memory modules in response to an oversupply last year when SSD prices were still falling so thats now having an effect in the opposite direction, with supply becoming too lean, certainly for higher capacity SSDs anyway as noted.

Given the total weight of the rumors spinning about SSD price hikes in one
way or another, we really would encourage purchasing now rather than leaving it, if youre planning a drive upgrade (or need one of the best SSDs for a new PC build ). You might also like Top SSD maker just announced something that could make SSDs obsolete The best laptop: top portable picks for all budgets
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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/storage-backup/ssd-pricing-set-to-skyrocke t-for-2tb-or-bigger-models-so-buy-now-or-you-could-regret-it


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