What are the chances this shortage (which drives prices up) is somewhat made-up?
We've been hearing a similar tune concerning hard drives, that AI data centers are scooping up so many drives that stocks are scarce and prices are going up.
Which I can understand when it comes to data center drive models, but consumer models for home NAS devices are studidly overpriced all of a sudden.
Why would they bother with 6-8-10TB SATA hard drives? It makes no sense other than when they're setting up a fake shortage to drive prices up, purely out of greed (as if tariffs weren't enough).
The prices of DDR4 and DDR5 memory have recorded a sharp increase, and many kits are now retailing at 2x or more above their record-low prices. Sadly, this trend is allegedly going to get worse, as RAM packaging companies are reportedly raising their prices by a double-digit margin in the coming months.