"Making RAM at Home"

 

alot of WARS are affecting the computer market. also i think the economy was damaged during pandemic. its a shit show.

 

You're right. And more factors... like the first recent GPU shortage that was due to the savage Ethereum crypto-mining farms.

The current war is directly affecting a lot of things too. Even Helium manufacturing plants due to those... ahem... "gps-broken" missiles.

 

that only affects 8 TB and above.

 

yes, price changes are always most pronounced for products people actually use

 

Exactly the same thing happened to me a month or so ago. Ordered an 'in stock' 2TB Samsung NVMe at a reasonable price that wasn't fulfilled due to 'stock unavailability', only for it to be immediately relisted with an additional £80 added. That particular vendor can go fuck themselves now, they won't get any more custom from me.

 

I disagree, this isn't driven by war, it's pure AI/datacentre/big tech monopolisation squeezing availability. It's been going on for many years.

 

I'm feeling lucky that I built my NAS last year, but I had to buy one HDD 14TB last month and that was painful to know how much I had to overpay. The prices are not going down anytime soon. For better or worse, AI will stay here. I find AI revolution more stresfull than pandemic and similar to war behind my border...

 

what i was trying to say is something different.

the new demand for data centers mostly hit SSDs and 20 TB helium drives of the highest category. so these groups of products directly affect the shortage and hence the price for products of the same type for us as little end consumer.

2 TB notebook drives are also went up from 65 to 110 euros, but that is only indirectly releated to the higher demand of server storage products. (e.g. the demand for the smaller ones rises only because the bigger ones are more expensive. if there would be enough cheap big drives, the demand for the smaller ones would not have risen.)

 

Circular thinking mate

It is NOT going to happen, because plants are already stuck making HIGH value and HIGH storage ones.
Small capacity are not going to come back anytime soon. And only after high capacity.
Because production mass is already reserved for high capacity ... and not enough already.

The only moment prices will drop is when AI bubble will pop.