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Expensive now that the chinese memory maker YMTC is flooding the market with NAND and DRAM. 1TB drives are around $15 in shenzhen with name brands like this hovering around $25. Also in the last glut of SSDs 1TB came down to $29.
Would you say the market being flooded is a short-term shock that won't last (like maybe they are trying to move quickly to take advantage of tariff fears)?
Or is the market being flooded a long-term new reality that will cause prices to eventually go down further and further over time?
Would you say the market being flooded is a short-term shock that won't last (like maybe they are trying to move quickly to take advantage of tariff fears)? Or is the market being flooded a long-term new reality that will cause prices to eventually go down further and further over time?
Storage prices skyrocketed in spring 2024 -- and never normalized back to the downward trend they were having up to that point. I remember getting 2tb drives for $68 pre-black friday in 2023. (literally checked my receipts)
I heard a lot of reasons as to why, but without any way to prove any of that -- it was speculation to cover up the real reason: greed. You see it all the time -- a part gets too cheap, so supply gets cut. I've bought 5tb spinning rust portable hard drives at $115...in 2015. They're still roughly the same price a decade later ($120-140 on B&H). You'd think 5tb spinning drives would be pocket change today....but no so much.
Users cut back on their spending, and now with the markets tumbling again, they're cutting back further.
Everyone I know (and I do mean everyone) is delaying all but the most essential purchases for the next 12-48 months. They "stocked up" on any burning needs/wants during Nov. 2024 -- and now everyone is sheltering-in-place with their wallet in full lockdown. They are even hoarding their old gear -- for utility (spares) and if any random supply chain issues spike the value, like webcams and fitness gear in April of 2020.
The mindset here is very much akin to Covid -- anything can happen, and it's going to be brutal to one's wallet. So the mindset is stock up, hunker down, and maybe we'll get through it. It's deeply depressing.
Storage prices skyrocketed in spring 2024 -- and never normalized back to the downward trend they were having up to that point. I remember getting 2tb drives for $68 pre-black friday in 2023. (literally checked my receipts)
I heard a lot of reasons as to why, but without any way to prove any of that -- it was speculation to cover up the real reason: greed. You see it all the time -- a part gets too cheap, so supply gets cut. I've bought 5tb spinning rust portable hard drives at $115...in 2015. They're still roughly the same price a decade later ($120-140 on B&H). You'd think 5tb spinning drives would be pocket change today....but no so much.
Users cut back on their spending, and now with the markets tumbling again, they're cutting back further.
Everyone I know (and I do mean everyone) is delaying all but the most essential purchases for the next 12-48 months. They "stocked up" on any burning needs/wants during Nov. 2024 -- and now everyone is sheltering-in-place with their wallet in full lockdown. They are even hoarding their old gear -- for utility (spares) and if any random supply chain issues spike the value, like webcams and fitness gear in April of 2020.
The mindset here is very much akin to Covid -- anything can happen, and it's going to be brutal to one's wallet. So the mindset is stock up, hunker down, and maybe we'll get through it. It's deeply depressing.
Just a reminder to the slick deals community - it's okay to not buy crap we really don't need. Families used to have one television and one computer because they were expensive and everyone survived. I'm trying to look at the silver lining and hope society might rediscover human interaction is free and beneficial. There is a lot of fear porn circulating but the true essentials, food, beer and toilet paper, don't come from China.
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Just a reminder to the slick deals community - it's okay to not buy crap we really don't need. Families used to have one television and one computer because they were expensive and everyone survived. I'm trying to look at the silver lining and hope society might rediscover human interaction is free and beneficial. There is a lot of fear porn circulating but the true essentials, food, beer and toilet paper, don't come from China.
Um -- a lot of the pre-packaged food you find in the grocery store is made overseas (some of it in China). Toilet paper & other paper products are made with tree pulp from Brazil. Almost everything fresh that's out of season is imported -- and much of what is in season is also imported.
And those essentials are going to increase too. Partly because THEIR costs are going to go up, and partly due to greed ("never let a good tragedy go to waste").
Like it or not, we are a consumerist economy. If the masses cut back on spending, it has a catastrophic domino effect on everyone's well-being and financial security. Just look at Covid. Some people cut back on some of their spending for a short time, and we never fully recovered from it.
Grab the EVO plus version for $5 more! Pretty large jump in performance.
990 EVO Plus is faster, offering sequential read and write speeds of up to 7,250 MB/s and 6,300 MB/s, respectively. In comparison, its predecessor, the 990 EVO, provided only up to 5,000 MB/s for sequential read and 4,200 MB/s for sequential write speeds.
Expensive now that the chinese memory maker YMTC is flooding the market with NAND and DRAM. 1TB drives are around $15 in shenzhen with name brands like this hovering around $25. Also in the last glut of SSDs 1TB came down to $29.
Stolen IP was going to land it on a blacklist back with Biden. That still potentially happening and it still operating at a loss since it's split from Unigroup and now the tariffs…I don't see it the flood lasting very long.
Storage prices skyrocketed in spring 2024 -- and never normalized back to the downward trend they were having up to that point. I remember getting 2tb drives for $68 pre-black friday in 2023. (literally checked my receipts)
I heard a lot of reasons as to why, but without any way to prove any of that -- it was speculation to cover up the real reason: greed. You see it all the time -- a part gets too cheap, so supply gets cut. I've bought 5tb spinning rust portable hard drives at $115...in 2015. They're still roughly the same price a decade later ($120-140 on B&H). You'd think 5tb spinning drives would be pocket change today....but no so much.
Users cut back on their spending, and now with the markets tumbling again, they're cutting back further.
Everyone I know (and I do mean everyone) is delaying all but the most essential purchases for the next 12-48 months. They "stocked up" on any burning needs/wants during Nov. 2024 -- and now everyone is sheltering-in-place with their wallet in full lockdown. They are even hoarding their old gear -- for utility (spares) and if any random supply chain issues spike the value, like webcams and fitness gear in April of 2020.
The mindset here is very much akin to Covid -- anything can happen, and it's going to be brutal to one's wallet. So the mindset is stock up, hunker down, and maybe we'll get through it. It's deeply depressing.
Great post. To me the tariff situation just screams the same economics we had during covid which was inflation and supply chain issues. It's a negative loop because we end up with demand destruction. I have a feeling we are going to deal with something similar with the tariffs.
Great post. To me the tariff situation just screams the same economics we had during covid which was inflation and supply chain issues. It's a negative loop because we end up with demand destruction. I have a feeling we are going to deal with something similar with the tariffs.
We're starting to see the beginnings of this. Some companies are cutting all sales to the USA, due to the unpredictable nature. Some are raising some prices, but no one wants to be first. That's being sacrificial, as they'll get beat up in the press.
No, companies will exhaust their old stock before raising prices to the replacement cost -- not typical in retail, but like I said, no one wants to be first into that meatgrinder. Once a major company or two do it though -- everyone will follow suit. And in 3-6 months, everything will be much harder to get due to shortages -- and it'll be literally twice the price.
Many suppliers aren't seeing Christmas orders -- which are typically made now, so it can be in warehouses around October and on the shelves by November.
Sad part is, if there's something you need -- now might be the best time to get it, before everything skyrockets. The DJI Osmo Pocket 3 has already increased from $529 to $900+. It's already started.
the true essentials, food, beer and toilet paper, don't come from China.
Try a bidet. I haven't used toilet paper since I installed 2 at the beginning of the COVID paper alarm. Why scrape (and smear) your bottom with dry paper when you can wash it with fresh water? I'll NEVER go back and only use TP when circumstances force it.
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And TBF vendors would probably drop these prices even lower but Samsumg most likely still has MAP restrictions on them.
Or is the market being flooded a long-term new reality that will cause prices to eventually go down further and further over time?
I heard a lot of reasons as to why, but without any way to prove any of that -- it was speculation to cover up the real reason: greed. You see it all the time -- a part gets too cheap, so supply gets cut. I've bought 5tb spinning rust portable hard drives at $115...in 2015. They're still roughly the same price a decade later ($120-140 on B&H). You'd think 5tb spinning drives would be pocket change today....but no so much.
Users cut back on their spending, and now with the markets tumbling again, they're cutting back further.
Everyone I know (and I do mean everyone) is delaying all but the most essential purchases for the next 12-48 months. They "stocked up" on any burning needs/wants during Nov. 2024 -- and now everyone is sheltering-in-place with their wallet in full lockdown. They are even hoarding their old gear -- for utility (spares) and if any random supply chain issues spike the value, like webcams and fitness gear in April of 2020.
The mindset here is very much akin to Covid -- anything can happen, and it's going to be brutal to one's wallet. So the mindset is stock up, hunker down, and maybe we'll get through it. It's deeply depressing.
I heard a lot of reasons as to why, but without any way to prove any of that -- it was speculation to cover up the real reason: greed. You see it all the time -- a part gets too cheap, so supply gets cut. I've bought 5tb spinning rust portable hard drives at $115...in 2015. They're still roughly the same price a decade later ($120-140 on B&H). You'd think 5tb spinning drives would be pocket change today....but no so much.
Users cut back on their spending, and now with the markets tumbling again, they're cutting back further.
Everyone I know (and I do mean everyone) is delaying all but the most essential purchases for the next 12-48 months. They "stocked up" on any burning needs/wants during Nov. 2024 -- and now everyone is sheltering-in-place with their wallet in full lockdown. They are even hoarding their old gear -- for utility (spares) and if any random supply chain issues spike the value, like webcams and fitness gear in April of 2020.
The mindset here is very much akin to Covid -- anything can happen, and it's going to be brutal to one's wallet. So the mindset is stock up, hunker down, and maybe we'll get through it. It's deeply depressing.
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And those essentials are going to increase too. Partly because THEIR costs are going to go up, and partly due to greed ("never let a good tragedy go to waste").
Like it or not, we are a consumerist economy. If the masses cut back on spending, it has a catastrophic domino effect on everyone's well-being and financial security. Just look at Covid. Some people cut back on some of their spending for a short time, and we never fully recovered from it.
990 EVO Plus is faster, offering sequential read and write speeds of up to 7,250 MB/s and 6,300 MB/s, respectively. In comparison, its predecessor, the 990 EVO, provided only up to 5,000 MB/s for sequential read and 4,200 MB/s for sequential write speeds.
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I heard a lot of reasons as to why, but without any way to prove any of that -- it was speculation to cover up the real reason: greed. You see it all the time -- a part gets too cheap, so supply gets cut. I've bought 5tb spinning rust portable hard drives at $115...in 2015. They're still roughly the same price a decade later ($120-140 on B&H). You'd think 5tb spinning drives would be pocket change today....but no so much.
Users cut back on their spending, and now with the markets tumbling again, they're cutting back further.
Everyone I know (and I do mean everyone) is delaying all but the most essential purchases for the next 12-48 months. They "stocked up" on any burning needs/wants during Nov. 2024 -- and now everyone is sheltering-in-place with their wallet in full lockdown. They are even hoarding their old gear -- for utility (spares) and if any random supply chain issues spike the value, like webcams and fitness gear in April of 2020.
The mindset here is very much akin to Covid -- anything can happen, and it's going to be brutal to one's wallet. So the mindset is stock up, hunker down, and maybe we'll get through it. It's deeply depressing.
No, companies will exhaust their old stock before raising prices to the replacement cost -- not typical in retail, but like I said, no one wants to be first into that meatgrinder. Once a major company or two do it though -- everyone will follow suit. And in 3-6 months, everything will be much harder to get due to shortages -- and it'll be literally twice the price.
Many suppliers aren't seeing Christmas orders -- which are typically made now, so it can be in warehouses around October and on the shelves by November.
Sad part is, if there's something you need -- now might be the best time to get it, before everything skyrockets. The DJI Osmo Pocket 3 has already increased from $529 to $900+. It's already started.
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