To be fair, I believe the increased pricing then was mostly due to sales, and thus production, tanking post COVID along with the big inflation for a couple of years. There was almost certainly greed from the most prominent memory makers tackedo n though.
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hark@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No thanks. I’d rather have 4TB SSDs that cost $100. We were getting close to that in 2023, but then the memory manufacturers decided to collude and jacked up prices.
zod000@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
hark@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Memory manufacturers purposely cut production to help justify cost increases: tomshardware.com/…/memory-prices-rebound-due-to-r…
But yeah, they’ll also take advantage of demand (real or imaginary) to jack up prices: tomshardware.com/…/micron-confirms-memory-price-h…
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I thought prices seemed to be taking a while come down on 4TB SSDs as I had been looking at them for a while.
Don’t really want it enough to spend £200 though. Would be to replace a 1+2TB HDD LVM. Now that I think about it, I have never copied a few TBs of data in one go.
zod000@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I just recently replaced a bunch of 1TB and 2TB drives with an 4TB SSD and 8TB HDD pretty cheaply back in December. I was trying to get those in before tariff shenanigans. Technically, those old drives are still in use, just for redundancy now. Even the scary old Seagate drives!
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
UK so hopefully not too much of an issue with tariffs here