RAM and SSD prices soon to plummet due to oversuply

[thechinchinsong]

Nah, every company in the supply chain is going to take as much of the savings possible and blame it on corona-virus. Wouldn't be surprised if memory prices stayed exactly the same. Maybe even price increases. I'm hopeful for cheaper SSD prices, but the memory industry has a track record of price fixing and tricky business.

[EChondo]

Just built a SFFPC, I'll stock up on some 1TB and 2TB M.2's for sure.

[W.D. Stevens]

15 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

Careful... you don't want QLC ones. Unless you find your SSD to be too reliable, long lasting and too fast for you.

 

I remember people saying that about TLC until recently and most consumer SSDs now I think are TLC. That said, yeah, I wouldn't use QLC yet for anything important. I should have bought the 2TB 660p I had my eye on when I had the chance before it doubled in price. For laptops that are moving away from 2.5" hard drives in favour of bigger batteries (and fair enough too), if I wanted to have a media collection always with me a QLC SSD would be perfect for that. Doesn't need to greatest speeds and for the most part it'll be a write once, read many kind of deal. I really should look into creating a NAS that I can access over internet, though but that's a lot more complicated than just sticking an M.2 in a slot.

[RejZoR]

I'm still on Samsung 850 Pro 2TB. The good old 3D MLC.

[YT_DomDaBomb20]

Hopefully hdd prices will be dirt cheap after this, then I can do a nice little raid configuration on my build

[Bombastinator]

These potentially lower prices seem to be hitting for consumers around Black Friday.

[Xwartu]

Considering I've only ever been able to build for others, this is fantastic news. I hope it turns out out be true making a build for myself just that more feasible.

[suits]

I kind of thought RAM prices had already plummeted. $60 for 16GB of DDR4 is so cheap. Pretty sure I spent $200+ at one point for 16GB of RAM a few years ago. Thought I was getting a deal at $140 for some other builds.

[HelpfulTechWizard]

On 8/21/2020 at 10:15 AM, RejZoR said:

I'm still on Samsung 850 Pro 2TB. The good old 3D MLC.

I’m still waiting for a Sabrent rocket 2tb, as I’ll be needing something for my H1 build. It doesn’t have HDD bays.

[Kisai]

On 8/22/2020 at 8:30 AM, TheTechWizardThatNeedsHelp said:

I’m still waiting for a Sabrent rocket 2tb, as I’ll be needing something for my H1 build. It doesn’t have HDD bays.

Hopefully you got a good deal on it.

CA:

US:

 

399.99USD = 529.99 CAD

 

[GoodBytes]

2 hours ago, Kisai said:

Hopefully you got a good deal on it.

CA:

 

US:

 

 

399.99USD = 529.99 CAD

 

Not really. In Canada, its lowest price was $457.63 between Nov 26 to 30th 2019.

In US, It was $339.99, between Nov 16 to Dec 26th 2019, assuming the third party option had free shipping, like now.

 

Amazon US: