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[CobraAB]

Upgraded my steamdeck's ssd to 2tb for $140 last year. The same drive is $290 today.

And $290 is not that bad right now as awful as that sounds...

 

[f~N_CH_1:3:3:3_SushiBoat]

tried to warn people months ago without success

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Hardware  Thread 'NAND prices double in six months; Phison CEO predicts years-long shortages'

Nov 22, 2025

Article from 10 November. Maybe getting a new SDD now wouldn't be a bad idea if your current one is near end of life.

NAND prices double in six months; Phison CEO predicts years-long shortages

The global boom in artificial intelligence has triggered a severe shortage of essential storage chips, doubling prices in just six months, according to Khein-Seng Pua, CEO of Phison Electronics.

www.digitimes.com

The price surge has been dramatic. Pua noted that prices for TLC 1-terabit NAND, a common storage component, skyrocketed from US$4.80 in July 2025 to US$10.70 in November 2025. Even older, low-density MLC chips have doubled in cost.

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Average inventory turnover was 224 days. Pua said that while stock levels may decline slightly as prices rise, the reduction will be...

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If you know, you know.

A couple weeks ago I organized a hiring event for a TSMC campus we have here locally. Theyre hiring 50 entry level clean room bodies by end of April, expecting 15 more each month until the new years. HR guy said they have so many orders its been the craziest since they opened in the late 90s.

 

[poppabk]

Thank God this doesn't affect consoles - otherwise you would be seeing a $600 PS5 and a $900 PS5 Pro.

 

[SScorpio]

I am kind of a game hoarder.

You don't say.

 

[zabegan34]

It's insane. I bought a super basic, entry-level Kingston A400 240GB SSD for €20 seven years ago, and now the exact same model is going for €60.

 

[Von Hugh]

It's insane. I bought a super basic, entry-level Kingston A400 240GB SSD for €20 seven years ago, and now the exact same model is going for €60.

148 euros for Kingston Fury Renegade 2 TB one year ago.

569 euros for the same exact model from the same exact store right now.

You could buy a new 9800X3D with that delta of 400 euros. Absolutely insane.

 

[Knight of the Round]

148 euros for Kingston Fury Renegade 2 TB one year ago.

569 euros for the same exact model from the same exact store right now.

You could buy a new 9800X3D with that delta of 400 euros. Absolutely insane.

An 8TB NvMe in Greece has doubled its price, from 750 Euro to 1,500 Euro.

RAM is about 8 times more expensive. 32GB of RAM I bought last summer cost around 170 Euro, now they cost about 1,300 Euro.

GPUs have more or less kept the same price. Perhaps a 10-15% price increase so far.

 

[Bojji]

So much for "PC Components prices have been pretty stable"

LOL

Same goes for consoles that were supposed to be immune to RAM and NAND price increases

 

[Deerock71]

This is the birthing pains of AI. Hug your systems tight. We're about to be expendable.

 

[ReyBrujo]

Someone said they were stable the other day

Not stable, solid (?)

 

[MisterXDTV]

GPUs have more or less kept the same price. Perhaps a 10-15% price increase so far.

GPUs don't work without VRAM though so in the end they are going to suffer as welll

In the end only CPUs and power supplies will survive this...

 

[Thebonehead]

Back in Jan 2024, I bought a 4TB Samsung 870 EVO SSD for $326.61 from Best Buy. That same drive is now $719.99.

I'm tempted to buy a 2TB M.2 2230 for my tablet. Right now I can buy one for about $300.

Picked up a 4TB Samsung 990 PRO for £231 last October - Now showing at £652 from the same retailer

 

[Quixz]

My brother picked up a Samsung 9100 PRO 4TB before the madness and now I regret not picking one up myself.

Hilarious that these days cheapest component is the CPU even those with X3D.

 

[sharp weiner]

These prices are skyrocketing.
Is that good?

 

[Leonidas]

Glad I bought 10 TB worth of drives during holiday sales before prices increased. Got 24 TB in my rig right now, should last me a very long time...

 

[Dirk Benedict]

This situation is getting worse by the minute, when will the freaking bubble burst.

I'm hoping players on the high end get priced out, themselves. Before recently, it was a spending race, now... I am not sure what I am seeing. The Data Centers eat more than hardware. They eat Energy, Water and Land, too. Noisy AF, as well.

 

[dgrdsv]

Yep, the primary issue is AI data centers.

The primary issue are the NAND producers and retail both of which will pay everyone, GN included, to put as much FUD as possible out there to justify them jacking the prices for no fucking reason whatsoever.
Same issue as with RAM, which is hardly surprising considering that it's like about 90% the same companies.

 

[nkarafo]

"Good thing i got mine before all this"

I see more and more posts like this. I was also lucky to build my current PC in late 2024 and also got 64GB of DDR5 RAM, along with GPU and 4x 2TB SSDs only a mere month before all this.

I should feel great about myself but instead, i just worry something will break. Because this situation has pretty much rendered all warranties for computer parts void. See, nobody will replace anything in case something breaks. They will simply claim they don't have stock and give you your money back... The money you spent before all this. This shit is already happening.

 

[lakitu1982]

Does this benefit Nintendo's philosophy of not caring about having recent specs in their products? I know they will still be paying more like Sony but at least their prices wont be as high to the average consumer.

 

[Rocco Schiavone]

Got a spare 4tb drive and a 2tb one.
Like my 64GB DDR5 6400mhz RAM bought before prices went skyrocketing.

 

[jason10mm]

Yeah, it's only gonna get worse. I'm getting ahead of the demand curve and buying up allll the birth control tests I can so at least I can play DOOM and flip them for 10x the price

 

[StoopKidz]

Out of curiosity I priced my desktop PC out yesterday as if I were building it new and the price was nearly $2.5k higher. Granted, I have some nice components in my build (5090, 64gb RAM), but that increase is just absurd. A year ago that would have built you a second PC, and a good one at that. I remember building a middling tower back in 2014 and it cost $400 for an APU build. Slapped a $180 GPU in there and it was a very capable 1080p60+ machine.

 

[dEvAnGeL]

Good thing i did not listen to people that said i was just wasting money when i purchased 96gb of DDR5 and 8TB of NVMe 4th gen at the time the prices were not ridiculous.

 

[MisterXDTV]

It's getting worse

 

[Fermbiz]

Back in Jan 2024, I bought a 4TB Samsung 870 EVO SSD for $326.61 from Best Buy. That same drive is now $719.99.

I am mind blown that, just in a couple of days, this HDD shot up to 999.99 on Best Buy. I feel like I invested in stock or something .

AI bubble, please burst!

 

[kiphalfton]

I am mind blown that, just in a couple of days, this HDD shot up to 999.99 on Best Buy. I feel like I invested in stock or something .

AI bubble, please burst!

Okay, an 870 EVO isn't even anything special. At this point retailers are just scalping.

 

[crackajack]

What do you mean faux? It's full of useful and well-researched information, unlike your shitty post that contributes to nothing.

The info that SSD will get get more expensive would have been useful summer last year, latest. And I am quite certain most tech youtubers incl him actually already said it back then. Now it is not news and useful information anymore, just some clickbait SSD WTF! collective whining outcry for clicks.