Relax, SSDs and DDR4 RAM memories will not drop in price for now, so either we wait for them to start to drop in price or we pawn a kidney to pay them.
Before the Christmas season, the price of SSDs and especially RAM memory began to increase, all with the excuse of smartphones, since they were going to be sold like hotcakes at Christmas time. It has been more than three months since this period has passed and the price of RAM and SSDs is even more prohibitive, weighing heavily on adjusting to what budgets. The problem lay in the migration from NAND memories to 3D NAND memories, the former being scarce.
We have two consequences, the first being that the SSDs during 2017 will not increase their capacities and the second is the lack of stock of NAND memories due to the reduction in manufacturing and the lack of stock of 3D NAND memories because they are not yet produced in quantity enough. This causes the price to increase and would be around 20% increase only in this first quarter and during the second quarter they will also increase, but it is possible that this increase will stabilize and moderate.
Except for high-end and gaming equipment, which have a rather low output, SSDs for laptops are divided between 128GB and 256GB. Higher capacity SSDs are not installed, because it would increase the cost of a laptop a lot and the most normal thing is that it remains on the shelf and the customer looks for a more economical solution for a slightly lower price with also good benefits.
Almost 50% of this year's notebooks will have SSD drives, which implies an increase in demand for MLC chips by approximately 10-15% compared to last year, according to TrendForce. SSD units that implement TLC chips will have a lower cost increase, between 10-15%, compared to last year's price at this time.
In summary, if we are going to buy a laptop, we will have to open the wallet well if we want an SSD and if we are going to assemble a team by pieces, we must still pawn a kidney to be able to put 16GB DDR4 and a 250GB SSD, because the thing it doesn't look like it's going to change. One solution is the higher capacity NANDs, but these will not begin to be available until the second half of this year.
Source: fudzilla
