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    From Graham J@nobody@nowhere.co.uk to uk.comp.homebuilt on Wed Apr 29 11:15:33 2026
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    In 2022 I bought a 500GB SSD from Crucial at under -u50.

    Similar products are now about double that price. Why the price increase?
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    Graham J
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  • From Andy Burns@usenet@andyburns.uk to uk.comp.homebuilt on Wed Apr 29 11:25:38 2026
    From Newsgroup: uk.comp.homebuilt

    Graham J wrote:
    In 2022 I bought a 500GB SSD from Crucial at under -u50.

    Similar products are now about double that price.-a Why the price increase?
    AI data centres sucking-up the production capacity of all the flash manufacturers :-(
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  • From Daniel James@daniel@me.invalid to uk.comp.homebuilt on Wed Apr 29 13:18:12 2026
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    On 29/04/2026 11:15, Graham J wrote:
    In 2022 I bought a 500GB SSD from Crucial at under -u50.

    Similar products are now about double that price.-a Why the price increase?

    Forget 2022 ... in about October last year I bought a 1TB SSD for -u70, they're now about twice that.

    The problem is AI. The costs of RAM and solid state storage have gone
    through the roof as companies build datacentres to cope with the
    anticipated demand.

    If only the AI bubble would burst ...
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    Cheers,
    Daniel.
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