The price of nand memory will continue to drop due to oversupply

We have good news, after the price of NAND memory, and therefore of SSDs, has dropped markedly over the last few weeks, the trend is going to be maintained in the medium term by an oversupply of chips.

The price of SSD drives will continue to drop during the first half of the year

While the prices of RAM memory continue to grow, the supply of NAND chips exceeds demand, with which the prices of the different SSDs on the market have fallen again after many months on the rise. This again opens up the opportunity for users to make the jump to flash storage, or switch to a higher-capacity device, without having to pay an excessive price.

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This situation is due to the fact that there has been a slight oversupply of NAND memory chips towards the market, even amid some incidents, which have affected world production by up to 3.5% last month. The investment in new factories has been great, as companies seek to obtain the maximum possible benefit, given the growing demand for this type of storage by smartphones, the general increase in storage space, and the speed to introduce business and technologies.

Prices are expected to continue decreasing at least until the beginning of the second half of this year 2018, at which point the situation may change slightly, with companies reducing production, to equalize market absorption, going from excess offer at a tight supply.

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