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SSD prices climbing fast!

I was lucky to get some 2nd hand 2TB SATA SSDs and NVME SSDs just before it started going up. Seeing the prices now...it is eye watering!
 
Donnie Fisher said:
I really fell I missed the boat on SSD's and wish I had bought some storage space back when they were cheaper. Sigh. My fear is that in the current climate, they'll never return downwards.
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Reminds me of when they first came out. My 64Gb SSD was £120 over 15 years ago.

Inflation adjusted you can still get a lot more storage for £200 than you could. Still, there was a relatively new tech premium back then, now it's a pointless no profit AI driven tax.

But yeah it has been dirt cheap, hindsight makes me wish I'd bought more that I didn't need.
 
CB's monthly index is out again:
www.computerbase.de

Speicherpreise im Check: Ein neuer Höchststand ist erreicht

Im Monatsrhythmus blickt ComputerBase auf die Preisentwicklung bei RAM, HDDs und SSDs. Mitte August zeigt sich: Überall stiegen die Preise.
www.computerbase.de www.computerbase.de
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So that's a new high in pretty everything. RAM slightly higher than the previous record (Jan'26), while HDDs and SSDs are still slowly climbing (but they've never gone down like DRAM).

Not a good time to buy anything - although I guess those who waited for things to come down have been disappoint so far.
 
SK hynix runs out of replacement SSDs and defaults to original purchase price refunds — fine-print warranty clause shortchanges buyers as drive prices double


And another one doing the refund at purchased price and saying go buy a new one at the new scandalous rates.. That's micron, Samsung and now SK hynix.. :rolleyes:
 
I saw a TY video by Louis Rossmann having to sue Samsung. In the end they got a refund for the full amount to be able to get a replacement drive.

This was when Samsung was telling him they had no replacement drives to send out but was selling them on the Samsung store on Amazon for stupid amounts of money

Original video on it


And then the update video below

 
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ED209 said:
I saw a TY video by Louis Rossmann having to sue Samsung. In the end they got a refund for the full amount to be able to get a replacement drive.

This was when Samsung was telling him they had no replacement drives to send out but was selling them on the Samsung store on Amazon for stupid amounts of money
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They did that for him to shut him up and a youtuber with a decent following. I bet you they would not do that for anyone else. Very sad state of affairs and coming from the company that makes everything on these drives, so they should have no excuse to replace them as their costs to make these drives have not gone up. If it was a drive maker having to buy the NAND and controllers I could understand as they are also having to pay the silly prices on these components but not coming from the company that makes the components.
 
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Will SSD prices ever go down again to previous levels? Like from year ago?
I dont rememebr when but I bought 4TB for around £160 - now I dont even want to know how much those are.
For years I was waiting for SSD prices to go down to level I could buy 8TB SSD for maybe £300, which it should be, cause technology is getting better and better, 8TB SSDs should be affordable, mainstream.
Now, I dont know if we are going to get to that level, ever.
 
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I was looking back and I purchased 2 x 4TB Crucial P3 Plus m.2s for £160 each back in 2023. Those were the days!

I just paid £240 for a 2TB Gen5 last week :(
 
i was just thinking recently id like to get 1 more M2 drive, ive been out of the loop on storage, i guess storage are the same as RAM at the moment ? silly high prices

i paid £229 for a 2TB WD Black (850x) what 2 years ago?
 
I paid £150 for used 4TB Shield external SSD last year.
I looked at 4TB drives today... I dont know what to think anymore, or feel - anger, disappointment...
 
Recently I accepted to pay £289 for a 4TB Sandisk Ultra, at least it has a five years warranty, which works out at just over £100 more than I paid last year. Not great, not terrible.
 
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tamzzy said:
that isn't bad nowadays
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I suppose that is how it starts, tin foil hat on.

Prices bottom out where the pendulum swings all the way to the buyer in terms of vfm and choice.
An event occurs, prices swing all the way back to manufacturer and, somewhat, retailer. Hyper inflated prices remain for some time.
Although this "event" continues, prices or offers start to appear that are less than hyper but still considered more than when the event occured.

We now see these prices as being "not bad" or decent enough to buy. :)

You can guess I'm still a little salty regarding the normalising of prices, whether it is the floods in Thailand, Covid, Mining or AI :D
 
Vimes said:
You can guess I'm still a little salty regarding the normalising of prices, whether it is the floods in Thailand, Covid, Mining or AI :D
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I'm very salty lol.
But also very thankful I finished my upgrade cycle just over a year ago so I can afford to sit tight :D
 
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