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Sapphire · 2/11/22

It is looking like we can see prices go up by as much as 10%. If you need one or have intentions of getting one, I would do it sooner rather than later. This is going to become a scalper's realm for a while. With how graphics cards have been climbing in price, I can't say I am surprised about this. This is down to error though, not crypto mining and chip shortages.

Due to materials contaminations at two of its NAND flash fabrication facilities, Western Digital has lost 6.5 exabytes (or 6.5 billion gigabytes) of NAND flash memory. While the loss is bad news for the company, which manufactures data storage devices like hard drives and NVMe SSDs, customers could soon see prices rise too. According to Trendforce, an electronics market research firm, the contamination could lead to a significant price spike in SSDs.

SSD Price Spike Possible After Western Digital Loses 6.5 Billion GB Of NAND Chips

SSD prices could rise as much as 10% during the second fiscal quarter of 2022.

www.gamespot.com

Jay · 2/11/22

Sapphire said:
It is looking like we can see prices go up by as much as 10%. If you need one or have intentions of getting one, I would do it sooner rather than later. This is going to become a scalper's realm for a while. With how graphics cards have been climbing in price, I can't say I am surprised about this. This is down to error though, not crypto mining and chip shortages.

SSD Price Spike Possible After Western Digital Loses 6.5 Billion GB Of NAND Chips

SSD prices could rise as much as 10% during the second fiscal quarter of 2022.

www.gamespot.com

I need to hop on it because I need some backup drives for our video content. I cant believe the prices are gonna go up even more.

Lamont · 2/11/22

Jay said:
I need to hop on it because I need some backup drives for our video content. I cant believe the prices are gonna go up even more.

Are you setting up a NAS?

Blackgravity · 2/11/22

damn, glad I bought a bunch not too long ago. I have some older laptops I was doing some upgrading on just to squeeze more out of them, SSD's and some memory upgrades, I won't waste money on CPUs, not for these.

Nesut · 2/11/22

Blackgravity said:
damn, glad I bought a bunch not too long ago. I have some older laptops I was doing some upgrading on just to squeeze more out of them, SSD's and some memory upgrades, I won't waste money on CPUs, not for these.

Why you have a couple of old laptops you a tech hoarder?

sourgrapes · 2/12/22

ffs when are these price increases on tech going to end!?

I am going to get some next weekend just to have. I don't want to be paying over the value when the stock starts running low. I bet by mid-march, people will have a hard time finding them for the standard price.

James · 2/12/22

Yes prices is going up since couple of months and it is expected to increase further as China have some issues which I guess they are doing low production to justify the price increase as they provide most of materials and we don't have any alternatives.

Sapphire · 2/13/22

James said:
Yes prices is going up since couple of months and it is expected to increase further as China have some issues which I guess they are doing low production to justify the price increase as they provide most of materials and we don't have any alternatives.

There are all sorts of messes happening in other countries disrupting the supply chains, on top of that we are still dealing with the issues brought on by COVID. Considering we were only starting to recover from the 2008 crash in 2019, I feel like this one is going to linger for a while.

James · 2/13/22

Yes you're right and this time it it long way to recover from this position and prices are getting higher in almost all technology components and freight movement is also impacted huge which is also one of reason for this increment.

Sapphire · 2/15/22

James said:
Yes you're right and this time it it long way to recover from this position and prices are getting higher in almost all technology components and freight movement is also impacted huge which is also one of reason for this increment.

If America actually had a backbone, we would be moving the industry back into our favor and making our own goods but no, it was better for the billionaires and government to ship all that overseas, giving most of it to China. They are some of the dumbest and greediest people in this world.

Nesut · 2/15/22

Sapphire said:
If America actually had a backbone, we would be moving the industry back into our favor and making our own goods but no, it was better for the billionaires and government to ship all that overseas, giving most of it to China. They are some of the dumbest and greediest people in this world.

The people on that level IMO don’t see nations, they see resources and opportunities. If moving the production from the USA to China hurt the US it didn’t matter because they are loyal to resource and power not flags. It’s the only way I can make sense of them gutting US Manufacturing in totality.

James · 2/15/22

Sapphire said:
If America actually had a backbone, we would be moving the industry back into our favor and making our own goods but no, it was better for the billionaires and government to ship all that overseas, giving most of it to China. They are some of the dumbest and greediest people in this world.

Exactly we have have people who have skills and have resources too build in home country but some people don't want as they want to pay peanuts to workers and from their all problems starts. As we all knows China have low wages workers means company can increase profit but don't care about consumers and home country.

James · 2/15/22

Nesut said:
The people on that level IMO don’t see nations, they see resources and opportunities. If moving the production from the USA to China hurt the US it didn’t matter because they are loyal to resource and power not flags. It’s the only way I can make sense of them gutting US Manufacturing in totality.

Yes that's hurt more as we are eventually make us depended on them as they can control everything and that's why many countries start banning many Chinese products because of safety issue and low quality products.

Victorystatus · 2/15/22

"SSDs are used anywhere that hard drives can be deployed. In consumer products, for example, they are used in personal computers (PCs), laptops, computer games, digital cameras, digital music players, smartphones, tablets and thumb drives. They are also incorporated with graphics cards."

Does it matter how old or new an SSD is?

Jay · 2/15/22

Victorystatus said:
"SSDs are used anywhere that hard drives can be deployed. In consumer products, for example, they are used in personal computers (PCs), laptops, computer games, digital cameras, digital music players, smartphones, tablets and thumb drives. They are also incorporated with graphics cards."

Does it matter how old or new an SSD is?

I would be careful how old you go because the new SSDs are built to take more read/write cycles than the older ones.

Victorystatus · 2/15/22

Jay said:
I would be careful how old you go because the new SSDs are built to take more read/write cycles than the older ones.

Dang, looks like the floor is set at 2019 when the 4.0 interface was introduced. Do you think the market may get worse over the demand? Or a blackmarket niche based on futurefitting older models?

sourgrapes · 2/16/22

SSDs don't have a long shelf life when they aren't used. The ones for computers anyway. Maybe 6 months of not being used, and you have to worry. Might just not work one day. Most are good for 5 or so years so long as you are running stuff on them. I would never buy a used one personally. You don't know how long it has been sitting for. If you mean old in terms of manufacturing date, then it should be fine even if it is older assuming it was never used.

Jay · 2/16/22

sourgrapes said:
SSDs don't have a long shelf life when they aren't used. The ones for computers anyway. Maybe 6 months of not being used, and you have to worry. Might just not work one day. Most are good for 5 or so years so long as you are running stuff on them. I would never buy a used one personally. You don't know how long it has been sitting for. If you mean old in terms of manufacturing date, then it should be fine even if it is older assuming it was never used.

Also since Victorystatus is an Android user it's safe to assume he's using Windows XP so I would also caution against defragging the SSD. I don't know if it's still as large of an issue now as when SSDs first came out, I'm a Mac user so I don't defrag.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8gdJ1Cn-I0

Throw up your M's!

#MacGangorDontCompute

Victorystatus · 2/16/22

Jay I got Windows 10 lol

Nesut · 2/17/22

Victorystatus said:
Jay I got Windows 10 lol

Did you find what you needed?

Devin · 3/22/22

Victorystatus said:
"SSDs are used anywhere that hard drives can be deployed. In consumer products, for example, they are used in personal computers (PCs), laptops, computer games, digital cameras, digital music players, smartphones, tablets and thumb drives. They are also incorporated with graphics cards."

Does it matter how old or new an SSD is?

Whenever a product have multi purpose usage, it's always going to make the demand for it to skyrocket and so will the price of it as well.

So, I'm not surprised the price will keep going up.

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