** SSD + OHER FLASH/DRAM PRICES GOING UP!! ** BUY NOW!

[Andrew Moore]

Hello

As you may be aware the strength of the british Pound against the American Dollar has fallen. Not only this but the price of DRAM, NAND and any other flash based product is on the way up. This unforunately means DRAM, SSDs and Flash drives will be on the way up!

You may7 have noticed that certain lines have already had the odd few £££s added to them and this is looking as though it is likelt to continue.

If your in the market for buying one of the above products you need to buy NOW or run the risk of paying a little or even a lot more!

 

[Andrew Moore]

How much are we likely to see prices gain by?

I guess we have no idea of the timescale either.

Is everyone going to start running RAID configs and WD Raptors, again, instead of SSDs?

I wouldnt be suprised to see 10% increase in price if not more. Gibbo has mentioned at £39.99 kit wmay increase by atleast £10 in another thread so thats a 25% increase alone!

I couldnt say whats going on with SSD but as said, I wouldnt be suprised if we started to see prices up by as much as 10% or more over the coming weeks.

 

[Andrew Moore]

Sorry not buying it, according to the news, newspapers, stock exchange, travel agents and post office, the pound is on the way up versus the dollar and euro, unless overclockers staff can see the future i just see this as a way to put up prices and dupe eveyone into paying more.

www.xe.com

Follow the stock market and the real time dollar rate. Look at the crash over the past few weeks (from mid august onwards) and then have a look at..

dramexchange.com

Your wrong in this case. Prices are increasing and unfortunately it is for everyone.

 

[Andrew Moore]

Ive been monitoring the spot price of DRAM which is a good forward indicator of memory prices, from what I can glean movements in the spot price take 4 - 8 weeks to filter through to the end user. I have noted a circa 40% increase in the DDR3 spot price last 2 weeks.

Exactly.

The $ to £ has dropped from 1.653 to 1.541 in a matter for a couple of weeks. If something is £200 it will mean it will cost £214.54 base on exchange rate.

Thats 7.3%

The SSDs as you have noticed have gone up by a few £££s. The 128GB was £133.99 and now is £139.99. Thats an increase of £6. If I put it up by the exchange rate it would be £143.77 so by that maths OcUK are actually losing out on profit and keeping to an even tighter margin. Add to this the price of NAND increasing as well as DRAM and its plain to see that OcUK are actually swallowing some of the increases themselves and giving the savings to the customer. This cant happen for long though as its not cost effective so as the origina post says, its probably better to buy now than wait as costs will increase considerably oever the next few weeks.

 

[Andrew Moore]

I know your following the general trends at the moment, and completely understand that you have to meet your own requirements for profit by increasing price, but frankly with the current instability of the Stock markets, especially in Europe with the Greek crisis I wonder whether this will continue...

I must admit, it may well do, but there's also a chance that it may not...

kd

Exchange rates may play favour leaving for a price to drop a little here and there but the price of DRAM and NAND has nothing to do with Europe or any factor relating to exchange rates. Its related to the actual cost of the product and as such with costs of that going up so will the SSD and the DRAM.