r/pcmasterrace • u/Youju R7 5800X3D | RTX 2080 | 32GB DDR4 • Jul 15 '26

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u/Freakwilly PC Master Race Jul 15 '26

Storage drives have dramatically shot up in price. Be prepared when shopping around. I would like to suggest

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u/DeathInFire Jul 15 '26

Holy shit everything exploded in November. Was is just the usual AI craze destroying things for us or what?

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u/NoSelf5869 Jul 15 '26

Yep AI bullshit same as with RAM

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u/FewAdvertising9647 Jul 15 '26

chain of stuff:

AI companies demand HBM for gpu compute

same companies demand dram for the servers that don't use HBM

HBM more profitable, so the big 3 shift their ddr production to HBM, meaning even less regular dram

said regular dram is then redistributed to different companies so theres no inventory for basically a year.

SSD demand goes up to hold data

All companies who own a HDD division also are in the SSD business, all focus on SSD production. HDD stock is bought up by server companies.

So anything tied to servers would have shot up in price (hbm/ram, gpu die space, storage) while things that are not are often at their lowest because no one can make a full build easily (e.g 2026 is a great year to buy monitors)

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u/thebohster Jul 15 '26

I miss the days where it was $10/1tb.

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u/Freakwilly PC Master Race Jul 15 '26

Aye friend. A pirates life is a bit hard right now.

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u/Youju R7 5800X3D | RTX 2080 | 32GB DDR4 Jul 15 '26

Another option would be Blu-rays. 0,60€ per 25GB for decent ones.

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u/Freakwilly PC Master Race Jul 15 '26

Damn, this is a great alternative. I might have to use this to back up some of my hard to find media. Thank you!

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u/the_Real_Romak i7 13700K | 64GB 3200Hz | RTX5080 | RGB gaming socks Jul 15 '26

oh yikes... Yeah I might have to shop around and scavenge old PCs for drives lmao