Western Digital recently shared that a “material contamination” at two Japanese NAND flash production facilities damaged approximately 6.5 exabytes (or 6,500,000,000 gigabytes) worth of product. Due to this incident and the ongoing pandemic, TrendForce predicts that SSD prices may increase by 5% to 10% around April of 2022.
SSDs Could Get a Big Price Hike, Buy While They’re Still Cheap