{"id":50211,"date":"2026-01-26T23:54:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T23:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bytecosmico.com\/?p=50211"},"modified":"2026-01-26T23:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T23:54:53","slug":"ssd-prices-double-samsung-100-percent-hike-nand-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bytecosmico.com\/en\/ssd-prices-double-samsung-100-percent-hike-nand-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade Nightmare: Samsung Hikes Prices by 100%, Turning SSDs into Luxury Items in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

If you thought the RAM crisis was bad, take a deep breath. The storage market is about to collapse. Supply chain reports confirm the worst-case scenario: Samsung<\/strong>, the global memory leader, has notified clients of a staggering 100% price increase<\/strong> on NAND chip contracts for this first quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This isn’t speculation; it’s a market warning. As component shortages worsen, consumers are about to see SSD price tags double on the shelves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"\"\n\n\n\n
ilustrative Image: SK hynix<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Perfect Storm of AI<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The blame, once again, falls on the Artificial Intelligence “gold rush.” Major players like Apple, NVIDIA, and AMD<\/strong> have locked in massive long-term contracts to secure NAND supply for their AI servers and devices. This has effectively drained the available inventory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To make matters worse, manufacturers like SK Hynix are reallocating entire production lines: instead of making memory for your gaming PC, they are pivoting to high-margin enterprise products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“There Is Nothing We Can Do”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The situation is one of helplessness. Data from PCPartPicker<\/em> shows that average SSD prices have already risen by 18% since October 2025<\/strong>. And that was before<\/em> this new 100% contract hike kicked in. Expert advice has shifted from “wait for Black Friday” to “buy what you can now,” as there is simply no forecast for normalization on the 2026 horizon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"\"\n\n\n\n
Approximate NVMe SSD price chart <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Se voc\u00ea achou que a crise da mem\u00f3ria RAM era ruim, respire fundo. O mercado de armazenamento est\u00e1 prestes a colapsar. Relat\u00f3rios da cadeia de suprimentos confirmam o pior cen\u00e1rio poss\u00edvel: a Samsung, l\u00edder mundial em mem\u00f3ria, notificou seus clientes sobre um aumento de 100% nos pre\u00e7os dos contratos de chips NAND para este primeiro … Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[241,222,763,37,101,762,390,759,760,761,720],"class_list":["post-50211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tecnologia","tag-amd","tag-apple","tag-hardware-news","tag-nvidia","tag-pc-building","tag-pcpartpicker-analysis","tag-price-hike-2026","tag-samsung-nand","tag-ssd-crisis","tag-storage-shortage","tag-tech-inflation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bytecosmico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bytecosmico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bytecosmico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bytecosmico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bytecosmico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bytecosmico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50215,"href":"https:\/\/bytecosmico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50211\/revisions\/50215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bytecosmico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bytecosmico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bytecosmico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bytecosmico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}