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Upgrading a PS5 before GTA 6? See what our tracker has actually recorded on PS5 SSD prices.

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.

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 Value or J-series machine, that combination decides which drives can build a storage pool at all.

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.

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 two of the three headline figures.

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.

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.

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.

HBM consumed 23% of global DRAM wafers in 2026, up from 8% in 2024. The result: DDR5 64GB RDIMM prices doubled and DDR4 prices climbed 60-80%. Here's when relief arrives.

Three forces converged: AI demand, US tariffs, and a NAND shortage forcing buyers from SSD to HDD. The combined effect is a 46-50% price jump in six months. Here's the playbook.

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.
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.