SSD prices climbing fast!

Vimes · 8 Jan 2026 at 14:10

nlel1975 said:
Looking at Camels tracking the lowest the WD SN850X 4TB has ever been is £257.95, so more than the PriceSpy price history. It was mentioned above that ocUK had it for £199 at one point in time so I could believe rainforest had it for £200 at one point.

Maybe I'm using the wrong terminology, but I have noted on some of the "lightning" type deals that occasionally reduce prices on Amazon for short windows of either time or selling a certain number, they do not always factor in price trends. Not suggesting that drive has been offered that way.

umboma · 8 Jan 2026 at 17:07

Price hikes is ruining PC building for me, went to buy a new 2TB NVME needed a mortgage.

Coolasmoo · 10 Jan 2026 at 23:50

Bought a 4TB Crucial X10 pro just over a week ago for £220.00

Its now almost £500.00 at some stores :eek:

Distracted · 11 Jan 2026 at 19:10

Vimes said:
Maybe it has for that paricular drive. I'm not sure though, using Camel or their own price history services, how accurate it flags limited time type sales etc. I've paid less for some items, over the years, a little vague I know, than they have shown at when looking at their previous price trends.

The price history (on their own website) is accurate but only shows 90days max.

Meanwhile camelcamelcamel shows much further back, but misses lots of price changes.

Looking at general price trends, it's not a good time to be buying storage at all.

Or GPUs. Or RAM...

Absolutely Clueless · 11 Jan 2026 at 23:00

nlel1975 said:
Looking at Camels tracking the lowest the WD SN850X 4TB has ever been is £257.95, so more than the PriceSpy price history. It was mentioned above that ocUK had it for £199 at one point in time so I could believe rainforest had it for £200 at one point.

I saw that £200 OCUK SN850X 4TB deal at the time. Should have stocked up.... At this rate I will be skipping PCIE 5 altogether, lol. In theory I am safe until AM6 and Zen 7/8, so let's see how the market evolves until then.

nlel1975 · 12 Jan 2026 at 12:12

Distracted said:
The price history (on their own website) is accurate but only shows 90days max.

Meanwhile camelcamelcamel shows much further back, but misses lots of price changes.

PriceSpy is the one to use, goes back years and even shows one day only prices.

Vimes · 12 Jan 2026 at 12:14

nlel1975 said:
PriceSpy is the one to use, goes back years and even shows one day only prices.

Good to know, did not know it showed such pricing changes.

Distracted · 12 Jan 2026 at 15:55

nlel1975 said:
PriceSpy is the one to use, goes back years and even shows one day only prices.

Just checked Pricespy. It also missed a short term deal that camelcamelcamel did.

Looks useful as another tool to use tho.

SoundsGood · 12 Jan 2026 at 16:03

Distracted said:
Just checked Pricespy. It also missed a short term deal that camelcamelcamel did.

Looks useful as another tool to use tho.

Did keepa.com catch it?

nlel1975 · 12 Jan 2026 at 16:47

Distracted said:
Just checked Pricespy. It also missed a short term deal that camelcamelcamel did.

I guess no site is perfect. I was only going by the price of my Crucial T710 4TB, it was £319.99 on Black Friday week 2025 but was £289.99 on 7th October 2025 for one day only according to PriceSpy.

Camelcamelcamel didn’t pick it up at all.

Distracted · 12 Jan 2026 at 17:07

SoundsGood said:
Did keepa.com catch it?

It did not.

Another site to add to the list for price tracking tho, thx. Hadn't seen it before.

FlyingFish · 13 Jan 2026 at 20:28

I bought a WD 2TB 2230 nvme before Christmas for £131.....

It's now priced at £388

Nearly tripled in price, I wonder how long before this has a knock on effect with mobiles, laptops, TV's etc. In fact so many everyday life things that rely on memory and storage.

Cyber-Mav · 13 Jan 2026 at 22:34

Bubble can't burst soon enough

Distracted · 13 Jan 2026 at 22:47

Cyber-Mav said:
Bubble can't burst soon enough

I agree.

But I think we're going to have bigger problems than SSD prices when it does.

Adrianr · 14 Jan 2026 at 08:38

FlyingFish said:
I bought a WD 2TB 2230 nvme before Christmas for £131.....

It's now priced at £388

Nearly tripled in price, I wonder how long before this has a knock on effect with mobiles, laptops, TV's etc. In fact so many everyday life things that rely on memory and storage.

Not like a lot of that stuff has been trending towards reasonable pricing either! Feel like a lot of companies are going to realise just how often we actually need to 'upgrade' various items if the price becomes unreasonable.

Mercutio · 15 Jan 2026 at 17:02

Personally, made a jump from: 4TB SN850X + 2TB SN750 to 4TB SN850X + 4TB Netac. Yeah, similar feels to many here on "phew, glad I timed that when I did".

brendy · 15 Jan 2026 at 17:09

I bought a 1Tb Acer Predator GM7000 Nvme drive from the rainforesta few weeks ago for £98, it's up to £160 already. That's shocking craic altogether!

Ev0 · 15 Jan 2026 at 17:14

I bit the bullet and decided for my new build to refresh everything (more to replace old 9 year old drives).

Paid a little more than the £245 I’d seen a month or two ago for the 4TB drive I bought, but shiny new 1TB and 4TB nvme drives should do me fine for the foreseeable (replacing a 512 and 1TB).

Can see prices still bouncing around so didn’t really want to leave it any longer. Worse case prices go down and I’ve paid 60 odd quid more than before, not the end of the world!

FlyingFish · 15 Jan 2026 at 21:45

I paid £213 for my 4TB Kingston Renegade drive back in Nov'24, its now up to £495 at the rainforest.....And an unbelievable £898 from Kingston themselves! WTF :eek:

I've watched a Hardware Unboxed video early today, where Nvidia are shelving certain mainstream GPU's in favour of the lower tier models with their lesser memory configuration. The market is bonkers at he moment.

SimonRigga · 15 Jan 2026 at 21:57

I purchased a 4tb SATA ssd for £189 in July last year.. £370 now..