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Upgrading a PS5 before GTA 6? See what our tracker has actually recorded on PS5 SSD prices.
Seagate Ships 32TB HAMR Hard Drives - The Largest Enterprise HDDs Available
Seagate's Mozaic 3+ HAMR platform now ships in 32TB across enterprise, NAS, and surveillance variants. Same 3.5-inch chassis, three different firmware profiles, three target markets.
Synology's Drive List Has Zero Third-Party Hard Drives
Every hard drive on Synology's current compatibility list is a Synology drive. There are 100 third-party entries and all of them are enterprise 2.5-inch SSDs. On a 2025-and-later RS Plus or enterprise machine, that combination decides which hard drives can build a new storage pool.
Why Is RAM So Expensive in 2026?
Consumer DDR5 kits went from about $200 to about $800 in three months. The cause is not scarcity in the ordinary sense - it is an allocation decision taken by three companies, and our own server memory index shows the same squeeze from the inside.
Storage Price Forecast - August 2026 Check-In
The first monthly check-in on our price forecasts. What moved in our own numbers over the last thirty days, whether each category outlook changed, and one measurement trap that flipped the sign of a headline figure. Corrected 1 October 2026: we first said two of the three; one SSD figure rested on a tape cartridge catalogued as an SSD.
External Drives Have Caught Up With Bare Drives Per Terabyte
For a decade an external cost more per terabyte than the bare drive inside it. Our live tracking shows that premium has closed to nothing on new listings and inverted on used ones. Here is what changed and what it means if you were planning to shuck.
Western Digital Is Sold Out of Hard Drives for All of 2026 - What to Buy Instead
WD's CEO confirmed the company is fully sold out at the hyperscale level for 2026. Here's what's still available and how to plan your storage purchases right now.
How US Tariffs Are Pushing Hard Drive and SSD Prices Higher in 2026
Tariffs on Thai, Malaysian, Korean and Chinese electronics are stacking on top of AI-driven shortages. The combined effect: 35-50% higher landed cost for enterprise storage.
The 2026 Memory Chip Shortage: Why Server RAM Prices Have Doubled and When It Ends
TrendForce estimates HBM at about 18% of the top three suppliers' DRAM wafer input at the end of 2025, and forecasts 22% by the end of 2026 and 30% by the end of 2027. The result: DDR5 64GB RDIMM prices doubled and DDR4 prices climbed 60-80%. Here's when relief arrives.
What the NAND Shortage Actually Did to Gaming SSD Prices
A naive before-and-after comparison of our gaming SSD catalogue's cheapest $/TB says prices are up 62% since July. Our own matched-model index, which prices the same listings against themselves, says +4.2%. Both numbers are real. Only one measures what you're actually asking. Corrected 1 October 2026: the 62% rested on a 1TB drive recorded as 4TB, and the matched figure on correct capacities is about 1%.
Hard Drive Prices Up 50%? What the Data Shows, and What to Buy Now
The 50% figure traces to one 4TB drive on Amazon, not the market. Our own index measures the real move model for model, and Seagate and WD's own statements explain why supply stays tight. Here is what the data supports, and what to buy.
Your Old Hard Drives Are Now Worth More Than You Paid
The 2026 shortage did something hard drives never do: it made them appreciate. Enterprise and NAS drives now resell at or near original retail — and your upgrade is partially self-financing.
PS5 SSD Prices Before GTA 6 - What Our Tracking Data Actually Shows
Everyone expects PS5 storage to get more expensive before GTA 6. Our tracker says it has not happened yet - and that is exactly why the upgrade window is open right now rather than in October.