RAM may be abominably expensive, but hey, at least SSD prices are also exploding

As we stumble into what increasingly looks like a hardware-unfriendly 2026, RAMnarök shows no signs of petering out. As tech giants continue hoarding memory chips to build their AI farms, and suppliers gleefully jack up their prices in turn, consumer-grade RAM is still laughably expensive – and SSDs, most of which also need these in-demand chips, are seeing some nasty inflation as well.

I bring this up now, when storage prices began climbing back in November, because the past week has been particularly fucked...