SSD Price Hikes And Shortages Are Leading To HDD Shortage...Go figure

[It's me!]

So, SSD prices are shooting up, so HDD sales shot up, and now there is a pending HDD shortage. I guess I will just buy some old school tape for storage

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Now the shortage is in full swing: DRAMeXchange reported that the average price of MLC SSDs rose this quarter between 6%-10%, while TLC SSDs also rose 6%-9%. M any analysts are predicting SSD prices to increase 20-25% over the next few months .

 

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To make matters worse, although HDDs unexpectedly had the biggest quarter-over-quarter recovery in seven years, according to Trendfocus, now the HDD industry is beginning to exhibit the early signs of "tightened" supply--which means there could be shortages and higher prices in that segment as well.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ssd-hdd-shortage-nand-market,33112.html

 

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ssd-hdd-shortage-nand-market,33112.html

 

[iRileyx]

SSD's cant have that much of a "shortage" with how many were reduced over black friday/cyber monday

[aisle9]

Time to go out and buy stock in Western Digital.

[Misanthrope]

Just now, RKRiley said:

SSD's cant have that much of a "shortage" with how many were reduced over black friday/cyber monday

Yeah it surprises me people still don't realize how the holiday season works: "OMG there's a shortage of everything every January!" Yeah not shit Sherlock.

[samcool55]

Seems like it was a good idea to upgrade my storage solutions 2 months ago

[handymanshandle]

Is this an across the board shortage for SSDs? If not, are the 850 Evo series potentially affected?

[It's me!]

13 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

Yeah it surprises me people still don't realize how the holiday season works: "OMG there's a shortage of everything every January!" Yeah not shit Sherlock.

A shortage usually results in price jumps, and almost all SSDs are already spiking. 

[Mooshi]

Not if you have Amazon Prime, I see storage cheaper than on Newegg rn

[Magnetorheological]

Prices look pretty stable to me right now...maybe they'll spike once the current stocks have run out for retailers.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

56 minutes ago, It's me! said:

A shortage usually results in price jumps, and almost all SSDs are already spiking. 

Got my 850 EVO on sale last week and the price just jumped by a holy cow 5 of my Canadian Rupees.

[Mihle]

It was black Friday and is holiday soon...

[zMeul]

13 minutes ago, Mihle said:

It was black Friday and is holiday soon...

it has absolutely nothing to do with that

 

at the start of the year, a lot of NAND factories started transitioning to 3D NAND but haven't supplemented production with planar NAND - this lead to a decline in both 3D and planar NAND production

few manufacturers have kept a stockpile and are now profiting from it selling NAND at increased prices - Psion, in particular, kept a stockpile of NAND valued at ¹/₄ billion USD

 

it's estimated that current shortages in 3D and planar NAND won't be fulfilled for the most part of 2017

[It's me!]

3 minutes ago, zMeul said:

it has absolutely nothing to do with that

 

at the start of the year, a lot of NAND factories started transitioning to 3D NAND but haven't supplemented production with planar NAND - this lead to a decline in both 3D and planar NAND production

few manufacturers have kept a stockpile and are now profiting from it selling NAND at increased prices

 

it's estimated that current shortages in 3D and planar NAND won't be fulfilled for the most part of 2017

It's amazing what you learn if you read the article! Mihle could learn from that

[Mihle]

7 minutes ago, zMeul said:

it has absolutely nothing to do with that

 

at the start of the year, a lot of NAND factories started transitioning to 3D NAND but haven't supplemented production with planar NAND - this lead to a decline in both 3D and planar NAND production

few manufacturers have kept a stockpile and are now profiting from it selling NAND at increased prices - Psion, in particular, kept a stockpile of NAND valued at ¹/₄ billion USD

 

it's estimated that current shortages in 3D and planar NAND won't be fulfilled for the most part of 2017

I didn't say that was wrong at all...

 

But when I think of it I saw much more HDDs on sale last weekend than I saw SSDs. But won't change the numbers that much but will change it a little bit

[potoooooooo]

16 minutes ago, zMeul said:

it has absolutely nothing to do with that

 

at the start of the year, a lot of NAND factories started transitioning to 3D NAND but haven't supplemented production with planar NAND - this lead to a decline in both 3D and planar NAND production

few manufacturers have kept a stockpile and are now profiting from it selling NAND at increased prices - Psion, in particular, kept a stockpile of NAND valued at ¹/₄ billion USD

 

it's estimated that current shortages in 3D and planar NAND won't be fulfilled for the most part of 2017

Plus we've known this has been coming for a long time anyway

 

This past summer flash was the cheapest it's ever been, and it'll only get worse from here for a while

[zMeul]

17 minutes ago, potoooooooo said:

Plus we've known this has been coming for a long time anyway

 

This past summer flash was the cheapest it's ever been, and it'll only get worse from here for a while

the Note7 recall didn't helped matters either, getting the phones recalled twice - hundred million+ GB of NAND went up in smoke

[Sauron]

3 hours ago, RKRiley said:

SSD's cant have that much of a "shortage" with how many were reduced over black friday/cyber monday

maybe that caused the shortage

[iRileyx]

Just now, Sauron said:

maybe that caused the shortage

Hmm, they say they started reporting on it back in May so I doubt it. depending when they actually wrote this compared to publishing it, they could have even wrote it before the sales  

[VerticalDiscussions]

 = Problem Solved.

 

 

 

(Oops, i suppose the image was too violent, even tough its from a movie?)

 

Heres something cuter...

[NumLock21]

I don't see any price hikes. Don't know where tom's is getting those info from.it might be outdated, just like their mobo review on a z97 board when skylake was already out.

[Syntaxvgm]

1 hour ago, NumLock21 said:

I don't see any price hikes. Don't know where tom's is getting those info from.it might be outdated, just like their mobo review on a z97 board when skylake was already out.

I noticed the ADATA 480GB SSD I normally buy for 100-110 USD is about 130 right now, I've been waiting to see what prices do before either waiting for them to drop again or reshop for what's the best value for me. 

[tlink]

17 hours ago, RKRiley said:

SSD's cant have that much of a "shortage" with how many were reduced over black friday/cyber monday

"global warming can't be happening because its snowing"

[Guest Kloaked]

19 hours ago, Misanthrope said:

Yeah it surprises me people still don't realize how the holiday season works: "OMG there's a shortage of everything every January!" Yeah not shit Sherlock.

I get shortages in January because it's so cold here.

[Castdeath97]

14 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

I don't see any price hikes. Don't know where tom's is getting those info from.it might be outdated, just like their mobo review on a z97 board when skylake was already out.

Trion 150 prices are all over the place.

[Agosto]

They're going to make 12nm TLC?!

Those drives are going to die right after Windows installation, lol