discussion Memory Card & Flash Drive Prices Prices Spike Up Up and Away

[Marzipan]

Memory cards and flash drives prices rocket 124% on average

USB flash drives, SD cards, and microSD cards are becoming expensive as the NAND chip shortage takes its bite and expands to other storage options.

www.tomshardware.com

mean increase is 261% over prices from a year ago.

 

[LaughingCrow]

I got a spare SD card for my camera the other day because these prices are going to get much worse. Once oil supplies really crunch again it will be like supply line shortages when we had Covid. Companies will just jack up prices to compensate along with gouging just like Covid.

Think of all the plastic stuff that comes out of China. No oil/gas, no plastic. Then other issues with helium etc.

 

[Shadowarez]

@Marzipan have you seen the CFS Express reader pci card? i think ill have to find one there is a specific one that can slot in the Xbox Series X external ssds if this is true i have 2TB sitting idle ><

Xbox Series X/S expansion cards as PC Storage

 

[Shadowmeph]

Everything is stupid high-priced a 4tb m.2 drive I bought last your for around 350 is over 700 others aer over 1k I was thinking of upgrading to a single 8tb m,.2 but wow way over priced so i will stay with my 2 4tb drives

 

[Shadowarez]

ordered the pcie card going to add the xbox ssd to my main rig lol might as well get some use outa it oh i can also use my PrimoCache lic to even throw some ram at it since i aint using 64gb lol

 

[Black_Ice-Dragon]

I just looked at USB pricing and its gone nuts as well. Most prices have jumped 400% on amazon from many of the products I was looking at. Just as my old 128gb recovery usb is about to die. This AI bubble cant burst soon enough. Even 1tb SSD's are now $250-$350 starting.