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DRAM And NAND Chip Makers Are Determined To Drive Up DDR5 And SSD Prices (hothardware.com)
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[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 48 points 8 months ago (4 children)

They are rising from rock bottom, I just bought a 4tb gen 3 nvme for $230 Cad

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's like gas prices early in the pandemic, but not quite as bad.

They grossly overproduced, sat on a stockpile that couldn't sell which costs them a ton and had to sell them for nothing. There's nowhere for the price to go but up.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 months ago

Keep them there.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

How fast is it? A lot of m.2's are cheap because they're slow.

[–] Rootiest@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

I bought a WD Black 4TB gen4 nvme for just under $200 over the holidays.

The listing says up to 7,300MB/s. I only have a gen3 SSD slot so I can't verify that but it saturates the gen3 capabilities.

[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

It is so frustrating trying to buy a nvme ssd because they make it so unclear which models have DDR and which don't. I tried to buy one recently to upgrade a family member's computer and was wondering how a non technical person has any chance of finding something decent.

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

MB/s

Seq 1M Q8T1
1Gb
2838 Read 2255 Write
4Gb
1419 Read 2239 Write

Random 4k
44.89 Read 108.33 Write

[–] Turun@feddit.de 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Seriously, a lot of weirdly negative comments here.

Yeah, it's not great that prices go up, but a few months ago was the lowest price for memory and storage we have ever seen in all of history. 40€/TB at the low end for SSDs. That's absolutely insane. It was entirely expected for prices to rise a bit again.