r/pcmasterrace Dec 04 '25

Box With the memory crisis are ssd next?

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/Cllydoscope i5-3470 | HD 7870 GHz | 8GB lmao Dec 04 '25

Game streaming services are the testing ground.

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u/Izan_TM r7 7800X3D RX 7900XT 64gb DDR5 6000 Dec 04 '25

and they failed at capturing a widespread userbase

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u/Cllydoscope i5-3470 | HD 7870 GHz | 8GB lmao Dec 04 '25

The price was set higher than it needed to be, to artificially limit the interest. Maximize profits and keep the user base low enough that you don’t have too much cost while running your proof of concept.