SSD prices predicted to skyrocket throughout 2024 — TrendForce market report projects a 50% price hike | Tom's Hardware

Samsung has decreased its output by 50% since September, though the market has already seen price bumps due to inventory being cleared out.

So they artificially create a shortage to hike up the prices. Nice.

Spreading rumors of price hikes, to justify later price hikes and quell customer outrage over it.

Capitalism 101.

By what magik are they able to “predict” a 50% price increase ?

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Well that's not great... They're already pretty expensive as it is.

Greeedflation bullshit

These companies need to get smacked upside the head. Hard drives would be pretty much completely obsoleted if SSDs hit the prices that they should if we had proper competition instead of the "competition" to keep prices up that this memory cartel loves to keep up. My only hope is for another player to come in and dump cheap product onto the market like Japan did in the 80s.

Looks Iike a good year for deleting things.

Maybe this will encourage devs not to make games over 100GB.

Glad I just bought a 4tb gen 3 drive for dirt cheap

PC part prices are already extremely high, how in the hell can anyone build or buy anything with prices so high?

Well, guess I'm buying that new NVME in January after all...

I wonder if it's gonna be a fire or a flood this year. They always make stuff up to raise it.

I was on crucial last night half interested in an M2 drive but they're a little out of range, guess I won't be getting one for the time being

This sucks. For awhile prices were so great for consumers. Finally thought prices would settle low. I'm already seeing a 50% increase in some products. Some cheap team group 128gb SSD could be had for like $12 last year. I tried to look at prices a few days back and it was about $20 and rising.

From article looks like they don't want to settle at prices before plummet, but at recent peak prices. Shit companies raising cutting output to inflate prices. Car companies are going to be next to follow. They've had to cut prices to sell recently. Once that settles ....

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BRB, buying winrar stock.

All this and the 1TB Samsung 970 M.2’s are going for ~$20 right now on sale.

Nice, I bought 10 TB of SSD (6 for workstation, 4 for server) this year. And I have 3.5TB of USB SSD available. Workstation already had 2tb, but I expanded because I crossed the 1tb threshhomd.And 16tb HDD, and another 8tb HDD via USB available.

I'm good 😊

Since this community has already established that piracy* is justified, and we need our SSDs to store all our morally rationalized but illicitly obtained copies of content we enjoy but don't want to spend money on, how do we now proceed? Obviously we won't spend money, it's the entire reason we're pirating in the first place. This leaves us with only one option: we'll have to be modern-day Robin Hoods and shoplift these SSDs, because fuck corporate greed.