Buying an SSD (or hard drive) will become more and more expensive if the current trend does not change. The latest price reports confirm the increase we have already announced to you, which has been met. Everything points to that

NAND flash manufacturers have faced oversupply and reduced production following the COVID pandemic. However, as demand continued to grow, prices went up and quite a few since July 2023 when the last lows occurred and we published our buying guide.

It is more expensive today not only to buy SSDs, but also to purchase hard drives, which is something unthinkable for a component that has practically disappeared on the consumer market as a means of internal storage. And that’s it the rise of AI technologies and the need to process huge amounts of data to train large language models increases the cost of all technologies, including storage units. The increase in the size of games and the recommendation to use SSD disks for these tasks also contributed to the increase in demand and thus the price.

Focusing on SSDs, it must be said that Prices rose for all major storage capacitiesas you will see in the following images the monitoring they do on techspot which can give an idea of ​​the price trend:

500 GB capacity

1TB capacity

2TB capacity

Does all of the above mean we shouldn’t upgrade storage drives? Not really, because the benefits of installing an SSD drive are staggering, and even though prices have risen in recent quarters, If we look at history, they are still in the low range prices.

In Spain, you have very interesting prices at big sellers like PcComponentes or Amazon. There are always SSD deals and the general trend to use M.2 to PCIe drives over the older 2.5″ SATA. In all cases, keep in mind that to get the maximum efficiency from the SSD, we should leave approximately 20 percent of the drive free. Therefore, we recommend purchasing units with one more point of storage capacity the one we really need.