TECH NEWS – We should not expect a 5-10% price increase, but a much higher cost increase.

The higher NAND price set by manufacturers will slowly trickle down to consumers, meaning we will have to pay more for an NVMe SSD. According to Chinese industry analysts, the SSD market is ready to take up the gauntlet against the negative financial results that have been coming in non-stop over the last few quarters. Production has been cut significantly, and then manufacturers started to raise the price of NAND flash memory, and the impact is now really kicking in.

TLC is a type of NAND flash memory. The wholesale price per unit is $25.5 for 256GB and $48.5 for 512GB. This is a lot more than the previous prices, and if this is the case at the wholesale level, the shops and retailers will not swallow the price difference, but will pass it on, so we will have to dig deeper into our wallets. Phison and Western Digital started raising prices a long time ago and have increased the price of NAND by a total of about 55% (!!!) over the quarters. Trendforce recently indicated that a 50% price increase is imminent.

This means that SSDs (whether SATA or NVMe…) will be very expensive. It’s not too late to invest in more storage (it never hurts), especially if you also get a significant speed increase in both read and write. Of course, it’s worth buying a product with DRAM. It may be more expensive at first, but the cache will not cause a speed drop after a small amount of use, as the lack of cache will cause that after a short period of continuous use.

It is worth checking out this list! It may be a bit scary at first, but here’s a good example: a Samsung 970 Evo Plus is good for an older motherboard with a Gen3 PCIe connection, for a more powerful Gen4 solution look for the 980 Pro…

Source: WCCFTech