SSD price pain predicted to last until 2030 — as worrying report shows DDR5 RAM is now five times more expensive than a year ago
THE SO WHAT
If DDR5 is 5x pricier year-on-year and SSD pain may last to 2030, AI and data-heavy workloads are staring at a structural memory and storage cost floor. Infra and product leaders should revisit assumptions on model size, caching, and data retention horizons now—your 3–5 year unit economics may already be stale.
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