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Buy Your SSDs and DRAM Soon Because Samsung is Cutting DRAM and NAND Production to Raise Prices

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Tom’s Hardware is reporting that Samsung is cutting NAND and DRAM production. Why? Because money of course. The DRAM and NAND market has basically been collapsing  with 2TB NVME drives finally reaching prices that most users would consider acceptable. Samsung, which totally has never been caught price fixing again and again, is of course not happy with that. So rather than accept that prices are lowering and producing better products to encourage consumers to buy say 8TB drives instead of 4TB ones, they’re just cutting production to raise prices.

Yeah….

Check out the Tom’s Hardware article here.

Just always remember that while many of these companies have good products, they are not your friends, do not have you best interest in their mind, and would happily extract every penny out of your wallet if they could.

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Tom’s Hardware is reporting that Samsung is cutting NAND and DRAM production. Why? Because money of course. The DRAM and NAND market has basically been collapsing  with 2TB NVME drives finally reaching prices that most users would consider acceptable. Samsung, which totally has never been caught price fixing again and again, is of course not happy with that. So rather than...

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Phuncz

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I already got some 32GB DDR4 and a few 2TB SSDs, also 128GB DDR4 Registered for the server, but that was second hand. The prices are good but this won't last. It might be the last time DDR4 (new) will cost considerably less to DDR5, I've seen the same with DDR2 and DDR3, later with DDR3 and DDR4 that prices don't adjust after an artificial price inflation. They'll switch to producing mainly DDR5 soon enough, if they haven't already.
 
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I picked up a 2TB Crucial P3+ for our test bench the other day for a little over $100. I'm tempted to pick up some more before everything goes sideways with the markets.

It's funny....every time DRAM and NAND prices fall these companies all decide simultaneously to cut productions, or the power turns off in one of their fabs.
 

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At the end of the day, you have to decide, do I need it, or not. There is really no direct competition to the 870 EVO 4TB. The direct competition costs $800 or more. So again, if $400 is too much, well then go back to HDD for a while. They work fine and HDDs now cost 25-30% of Samsung pricing for 4TB EVOs
 

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At the end of the day, you have to decide, do I need it, or not. There is really no direct competition to the 870 EVO 4TB. The direct competition costs $800 or more. So again, if $400 is too much, well then go back to HDD for a while. They work fine and HDDs now cost 25-30% of Samsung pricing for 4TB EVOs

First: Welcome to the forum.

Second: I'm not sure what you mean about no direct competition for that particular 4TB SSD. Are you outside the US?



Third: I'm not a fan of the "it's fine" statements. A spinning HDD might be fine for some uses, but it's definitely not fine for all uses including some games and a lot of creative content editing.