Keep Up To Date With The PC Memory And SSD Supply Crisis As We...
Affordable DDR5 and PC storage is but a sweet, well, memory.
Unless you've living under a very large rock, or maybe only just escaping the marathon session of Battlefield 6 to end all marathon sessions of Battlefield 6, you may have noticed that PC memory prices have spiked massively and SSDs are expected to follow shortly.
But just how far have we come, how bad has it got and what's likely to happen next? To shed at least a little light on the situation, we're going to track a number of DDR5 kits and SSDs over the coming day, weeks and quite possibly months and years.
We'll also keep an eye on the latest news and developments as we head into Black Friday 2025. Will this year's online firesale be your last chance for vague sensible DDR5 and storage prices? Or will spiralling demand from AI data centres kick in before the sales kick off?
Among the very latest developments comes news that a Japanese retailer seems to have run out of PC memory kits and is restricting purchases. The CEO of SSD controller specialist Phison has also recently warned of a shortage of NAND flash chips leading to a doubling of prices in the last six months, while predicting that demand will likely outstrip supply for several years to come. For now, then, all the signs seem to be pointing in the same direction. Upwards for prices. Youch.
Let's kick things off with that most generic of memory brands, Crucial. Their standard and unadorned 32 GB DDR5 kit is currently listed at $186. But thanks to price history tracking we can see that it was priced as low as $69 in the Spring before stepping up to around the $100 mark in late July and then leaping up to current levels a few weeks ago.
Where it goes from here is anyone's guess. But we sense that, more likely than not, we haven't quite hit peak DDR5 pricing in this particular cycle. Whether we'll eventually see actual memory shortages to the point where DDR5 kits are difficult to buy at any price, well, we'll just have to wait and see.
Next up is Newegg's best seller, the Corsair Vengeance RGB 32 GB kit. There aren't any historical price tracking graphs to post for Newegg, but suffice to say this kit would have cost much less than the current $210 figure.
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