No. AI workloads benefit from SSD’s high random read/write performance. Also, I guess, more people starting using SSDs for paging/swap, as RAM prices skyrocketed.
This resulted in an SSD shortage immediately after RAM starting getting expensive. Which in turn caused an HDD shortage, because people need space to store their data.
What about SSDs?
You’re gonna need to sit down for me to tell you about NAND prices
Ask yourself why the AI industry turned to HDDs
Same as everyone else? Because it’s a more cost-effective way of storing data?
No. AI workloads benefit from SSD’s high random read/write performance. Also, I guess, more people starting using SSDs for paging/swap, as RAM prices skyrocketed.
This resulted in an SSD shortage immediately after RAM starting getting expensive. Which in turn caused an HDD shortage, because people need space to store their data.
Those prices have already been driven up. For 4 TB NVMe:
https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/internal-hard-drive/
Yes but are they sold out for the entirety of 2026?
No, but they are prohibitively expensive. Just like hdds will be.