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SSD prices predicted to skyrocket throughout 2024 — TrendForce market report projects a 50% price hike | Tom's Hardware

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SSD prices predicted to skyrocket throughout 2024 — TrendForce market report projects a 50% price hike

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Samsung has decreased its output by 50% since September, though the market has already seen price bumps due to inventory being cleared out.
So they artificially create a shortage to hike up the prices. Nice.
- That’s capitalism for you 😉
- From today's prices, an increase of 40% will reportedly get these companies back to breaking even, and a rise of 50% will mean profits instead of the losses that threatened bankruptcies earlier this year.
By what magik are they able to “predict” a 50% price increase ?
- Market Manipulation Lvl 1: Hyping
- Setting expectations..
- Article says SSD manufacturers currently sell at a loss & intend to raise prices because they want to be profitable, 40% is break even, 50% is profitable
  
  If that is real, this is baffling, why was it done in the first place? Was there some new company that could manufacture a significant amount of SSDs who started selling at loss so everyone else had to follow to not lose all marketshare? Also it's not like SSDs are some eggs that expire, there is no need to dump all inventory. Pretty hard to believe.
Fake problems in order to get in on all this fake inflation bullshit. All these capitalist pigs raking people over the coals for record profits under the entirely fabricated "inflation" crisis. SSD manufacturers want to get theirs too.
This is the prep/hype phase where they spread fake news to get the consumers prepped for surgery. None of it is real.
Maybe this will encourage devs not to make games over 100GB.
- Hahahaha! Good joke mate :)
- Doubts in Spanish
  
  ¿Qué?
Well that's not great... They're already pretty expensive as it is.
These companies need to get smacked upside the head. Hard drives would be pretty much completely obsoleted if SSDs hit the prices that they should if we had proper competition instead of the "competition" to keep prices up that this memory cartel loves to keep up. My only hope is for another player to come in and dump cheap product onto the market like Japan did in the 80s.
- A 3D printing revolution is what we need. Something that can print a very basic storage device. It doesn't have to be good, just needs to be free shitty alternative to these price gougers.
  
  Fuck it, let's all just start winding our own magnetic core memory arrays.
Well, guess I'm buying that new NVME in January after all...
- Exactly what they want you to do.
  
  Well, if they need/want storage, what else are they supposed to do though?
Looks Iike a good year for deleting things.
BRB, buying winrar stock.
Whose stock do I need to buy?
Glad I just bought a 4tb gen 3 drive for dirt cheap
How about right now? How's that going?
- Wait what? Link?

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