From PC World: If you’ve delayed buying a cheap SSD for the holidays, you might want to try and jump in before Christmas. Market reports out of Taiwan note that the price of the flash memory used in SSDs is increasing sharply, meaning those prices will hit your wallet before long.
TrendForce’s DRAMeXchange monitors the spot market for DRAM and flash, which of course power a PC’s system memory and storage — and, more and more, external storage as well. Spot prices rise and fall, like the stock market, based upon supply and demand. Memory makers suffered during the pandemic, but have implemented production controls to try and raise prices, reports Tom’s Hardware.
TrendForce notes that the price of 512Gbit TLC flash has nearly doubled from about $1.30 to $2.57 from July to November, and that street prices of finished SSDs, such as the 240GB WD Green SSD, have started climbing, too: just 5 percent in the most recent November 24 update, but heading up. As Tom’s noted, the spot price of 2x8Gb DDR4-3200 RAM has jumped from $2.99 in July to $3.21 in November — a smaller amount, true, but evidence of a rising trend.
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