The price of HDD, SSD is going to increase

2020 is going to be a nightmare for PC users and gamers.  There is a shortage of products in the market for various reasons, production for raw materials is disrupted and skyrocketing prices of different components to build a PC or buy a single component, no one can do anything.  In the meantime, new bad news is being heard, the price of SSD and hard drive is going to increase for several reasons.  Find out the details from the article.  It is learned that the price of ram may go up further.

SSD and HDD prices are rising

Last month, Trend force reported that the price of SSD was going to increase by 3-6% due to the crisis of raw materials and excess demand.  Hardware industry has faced a new problem without cutting the resh of this news.

Recently, the popularity of a new crypto currency called CHIA has increased.  CHIA was developed to reduce the amount of power and electricity required for other cryptocurrency mining.  Its carbon footprint is therefore something to consider.  Using the proof of space model to solve the CHIA problem, this will eliminate the need for high end GPU, ASIC chip.

However, the problem is that the working area of ​​CHIA Cryptocurrency is free space, i.e. free memory / storage space.  Many people understand that wherever it works, yes, the operation zone and interest of this new currency is storage space.  It works on SSD, Hard Disk Drive.  As a result, you can understand the consequences of increasing its price and popularity.

Chinese e-commerce platforms Taobao and JD.com report that stocks of their enterprise grade and commercial grade SSDs and hard drives have already run out due to high demand.  According to Chinese analytics site manmanbuy.com, the average price of an enterprise-grade hard drive in February was about 2,200 yuan.  It has now risen to 3500 yuan.  The price of Seagate's 8 terabyte hard drive has increased from 1150 to 2160 yuan on Taobao.

In the offline market, the price has gone up by about 60%.

However, there is a hopeful news that the Chia cannot be mined with less than 4 terabytes of storage, so the small capacity drives have not yet been affected in terms of stock and price.

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Many may say that then what is the point of thinking again. But the point is, the common components of HDD manufacturing, due to the sudden surge in demand, may be reduced, production may be reduced and the e-manufacturing of all types of HDDs may be disrupted and prices may rise within a few days.  .

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The price of ram will increase:

Trend force also reports that the price of ram may increase.  Already the price of ram has gone up a lot in our country.  But the sad news is that prices will continue to rise in the coming days.  The price of ram will increase by 18-23%.  There are various reasons behind this, according to Trend force.