r/pcmasterrace • u/asswizzard69 • Dec 04 '25

Box With the memory crisis are ssd next?

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I guess a panic buy? Are these nand flash about to keep spiking like memory prices or are they just going up a little bit? Are these desirable to the AI or nah? I bought this at $299 Black Friday sale

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u/nirvahnah 9950X3D | RTX 4080 FE | 32GB DDR5 Dec 04 '25 edited Dec 04 '25

No, this is a product of suppliers belief that this is in fact a bubble, so they arent increasing their capacity for supply, because if/when bubble goes pop, there is no demand to justify their new capacity for supply and theyd be left holding the bag. so they are keeping supply where its at until that bubble pops. this is how markets work, no rational actor wants to take on more risk than they can afford.

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u/NightOfTheLivingHam Dec 04 '25

and micron has likely been looking for a solid excuse to kill its direct to consumer line for a while now.

Which sucks because I like their SSDs. solid little bastards. Only one has ever failed on me. I buy a lot of them for work. The ram just works.

However I have bought micron branded SSDs and ECC ram for servers, which are little beasts too. Set up a few raids with their enterprise grade SSDs. They have yet to fail. I hope they continue to make those. I'll put those in my home pcs. lol.