News Potential NAND Shortage Could Mean End of Dirt Cheap SSDs

[Admin]

A looming shortage of materials needed to make NAND chips may be the final nail in the coffin for cheap storage and memory.

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[ThomasKinsley]

I should probably get one. Biggest SSD I've got is only 256GB.

 

[Order 66]

I'm sure glad I got a 2TB NVMe for my system. I have numerous games, the largest being Jedi survivor at 130GB. If I had gone for a 1TB drive, I would be nearly out of storage by now. Hopefully 2TB will last me through this potential SSD shortage.

 

[HaninTH]

Would be nice of the pricing (lower) was also reflected in enterprise grade SSDs and in SSDs larger than 4TB.

But with adapter boards and used server chassis availability, building out TrueNAS repos using 1-2TB m.2 drives should be viable for a while longer.

 

[Order 66]

There goes my dream of a cheap 8TB NVMe SSD in the near future.

 

[Amdlova]

I have a optane 280 for system and 3 ssd 1Tb ssd each. But want to get another's two 2tb for storage.

 

[Amdlova]

There goes my dream of a cheap 8TB NVMe SSD in the near future.

8tb drivers are insanely priced, but have cheap sata intel 4tb on ebay right now

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Interesting how there's now a "shortage of materials" after NAND manufacturers cut production to a fraction of what it was due to "oversupply" in order to drive up prices.

 

[umeng2002_2]

Wow, what luck. They predict a component shortage just as NAND prices bottomed out... It reminds me of news outlets always running stories of pumpkin pie mix or cranberry or turkey shortages just before Thanksgiving.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

Kind of convenient to have materials shortages now when prices were getting good.

 

[t3t4]

Just bought a 2TB Samsung 990 pro last week on Amazon for $99.99 so I can't say I've noticed any price hikes. But "if" prices rise then demand will simply fall until the prices do again. But me personally, I only buy when a thing is on sale and I'm always looking for a deal so I stay up to date on current pricing. My habit makes it very easy to see a fake price hike which typically precedes a good sale event. Wait for the wheel as they say, it will come around again.

 

[williamcll]

Blame Samsung for reducing stock