Floor about to drop out of flash prices?

[rvassar]

There was a couple interesting articles published this week on flash prices, and the potential impact on traditional disk, and possibly DRAM prices.

https://www.techspot.com/news/76015-analysts-headed-flash-memory-price-crash.html

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/13/flash_oversupply_analysis/

From a NAS perspective, I think I'll prioritize my 10GbE networking plans. It'll be interesting to see what kind of sales pop up over the next 6 months.

 

[Jailer]

I've been following these stories for a bit. I'm waiting for the prices to fall so I can add another 8GB to my laptop.

 

[Ericloewe]

NAND-wise, lots of vendors are moving to higher densities, besides some added capacity in China. That's going to drop prices, mostly in the high-end.

DRAM is apparently about to get a big capacity boost from the Chinese fabs that are coming online late this year or so. In practice (if true), that means a sharp drop in demand for the big three vendors (Samsung, Hynix and Micron), which implies lower prices for typical DDR4 densities. DDR3 should stay steady.