4 laptop features I expect to decline as RAM and SSD costs ruin margins

At this point, it should be no surprise that RAM and SSD costs only go up, and fast. What will this crisis look like in the ...

The memory apocalypse's latest victim? SSD prices.

The best time to buy an SSD? Yesterday.

The memory shortage is driving up prices for SSDs, GPUs, and hard drives – even phone makers are cutting projections

With the DRAM shortage already making memory upgrades prohibitively expensive, high-end SSD prices have also spiked in recent weeks. This surge is being driven by the ...
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SSD prices may follow RAM pricing after Samsung and SK Hynix reportedly cut NAND production

Samsung and SK Hynix reportedly cut NAND production in favor of more profitable avenues, leading to price pressure in the SSD ...

DRAM, SSD shortages could last months to years, vendors say

CES 2026 is where DRAM and SSD makers were able to come together, face to face, to discuss the ongoing shortages in memory ...

As AI Eats Up The World’s Chips, Memory Prices Take The Hit

At CES 2026, sleek new laptops dazzled—but soaring memory costs driven by AI chip demand threaten to make everyday PCs ...

SSDs now cost 16x more than HDDs due to AI supply chain crisis — hybrid SSD + HDD datacenter deployments are now significantly cheaper to deploy than SSD-only equivalents

VDURA reports (from Blocks and Files) that SSD prices are now a whopping 16 times greater than HDDs, making hybrid storage deployments with SSDs and HDDs mixed together significantly cheaper and more ...