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https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/ssd-nand-prices-dropping-price-could-further-half-this-year.html
https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/dram-memory-ram-prices-decline,news-59788.html
I've compared prices and yes, generally for the same cash you can now buy 4 times more SSD capacity than 2-3 years ago. If it'll drop even further as suggested above, I guess it's time to ditch buzzing and clicking HDDs out of rigs and use on docks or within USB capable cases as external backups.Solid State Drives are becoming increasingly cheaper, it is now reported that there is an oversupply of flash memory with low demand for notebooks and smartphones back. This year, the priced could be halved compared to what it was last year.
NAND manufacturers want to reduce the production of flash memory. In addition, investments are expected to fall by two percent, having already been dropped by ten percent last year. DRAMeXchange expects that prices for Flash memory products will be around 20 percent in the first quarter of 2019. For the second quarter, and maybe 15 percent and in the last two quarters, it will be another ten percent per quarter. For the year, the price of flash memory would be roughly be reduced by half.
https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/dram-memory-ram-prices-decline,news-59788.html
No existing game needs more than 8Gb of RAM, but if you were following Star Citizen news, it listed 16Gb as minimum. There is a slight possibility another unexpected title does this requirement too, so if you're still on 8Gb machine, this prediction is very good news.In a new report this week, DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, said it expects DRAM prices to drop nearly 20 percent in Q1 2019. The prediction comes after RAM vendors saw relatively stable prices in November and December of last year.
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