Monday, January 3rd 2022
Samsung Reportedly Raising Prices for Its SSD Lineup in Early 2022, Amidst Lower Market Pricing
DigiTimes, citing sources within the industry, reports that Samsung is mulling a price raise for its own-brand SSDs. The report doesn't put a number or percentage to the prospective price increase, but it also states that Samsung is seemingly moving in the opposite direction of other SSD vendors. Samsung's competition is expected to lower overall pricing by up to 10% in an attempt to increase product attractiveness after facing lower than expected demand.
Samsung is one of the world's largest manufacturers of NAND chips, and enjoys a fully vertical SSD development capability: the company manufactures its own NAND and controller chips, which has led to a strong foothold in both the industry and in consumer's expectations for SSD speed and reliability. It thus seems strange that the company would move in the opposite direction of the remaining industry, especially considering how it benefits from economies of scale and (expectedly) higher product margins than companies that don't manufacture their own NAND. However, Samsung has recently cut its production guidance for both its Xi'an, China NAND factories after local COVID-19 surges forced partial lockdowns. These factories are responsible for around 40% of Samsung's global NAND output - and thus, they also account for around 7% of global NAND production.
Sources:
DigiTimes, Tom's Hardware
Samsung is one of the world's largest manufacturers of NAND chips, and enjoys a fully vertical SSD development capability: the company manufactures its own NAND and controller chips, which has led to a strong foothold in both the industry and in consumer's expectations for SSD speed and reliability. It thus seems strange that the company would move in the opposite direction of the remaining industry, especially considering how it benefits from economies of scale and (expectedly) higher product margins than companies that don't manufacture their own NAND. However, Samsung has recently cut its production guidance for both its Xi'an, China NAND factories after local COVID-19 surges forced partial lockdowns. These factories are responsible for around 40% of Samsung's global NAND output - and thus, they also account for around 7% of global NAND production.
47 Comments on Samsung Reportedly Raising Prices for Its SSD Lineup in Early 2022, Amidst Lower Market Pricing
Low demand, higher prices!
What a time to be alive.
www.hexus.net/tech/news/storage/148295-samsung-latest-ssd-maker-spotted-swapping-components/
www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/adata-switches-nand-on-sx8200-pro-ssd-performance-impacted
www.extremetech.com/computing/326200-western-digital-caught-bait-and-switching-customers-with-slow-ssds
www.extremetech.com/computing/325824-buyer-beware-crucial-swaps-p2-ssds-tlc-nand-for-slower-inferior-qlc-chips
The entire storage market is so pathologically dishonest ("Mebibytes and Megabytes are the same thing!", "Shingled Magnetic Recording makes great NAS drives!", "We no longer state whether SSD's are TLC or QLC so we can swap between them without lawsuits!"), that what's really needed is a widely published up to date spreadsheet of good drives clearly marked in green and the degraded ones + QLC trash highlighted in bright red, and then reference / link to / quote the hell out of it on every Amazon / Newegg, review / ordinary Joe website.
There are other good, simple lineups out there of course. Crucial, Corsair & HP come to mind but none of these companies make their own controllers like WD/Sandisk & Samsung.
XPG GAMMIX S11 Pro PCIe Gen3x4 M.2 2280 Solid State Drive
XPG GAMMIX S70 PCIe Gen4x4 M.2 2280 Solid State Drive
For the best value? That would be XPG Gammix, you can get some amazing deals on their stuff, even in easy to find locations like Amazon. But the best quality is WD right now.
www.theverge.com/2022/1/2/22858698/samsung-2022-tvs-nft-support-announced-cryptocurrency
Let the rage commence.
i know Samsung also did shaddy, but no where near what many others did that you can't trust them.
On the other hand LG TVs may be top BUT only on specs, not in terms of real life usage and reliability (it's the same with Sony cameras e.g.). And if I had to choose between Samsung and Apple for a phone, it would be definitely Samsung. Just for the record, right now we have no Samsung phone in our 5-member family.
The SN570 is a recent release (mid-2021) that was meant to be a replacement to the SN550 which was caught in the TLC-QLC scandal. Specs and performance are somewhat similar to the 'old' TLC SN550 before they did the bait and switch to QLC
Same with phones. If I get a call from someone saying their phone is out of storage, 99% of the time it's a samsung that has filled its filesystem with crap. Never have I seen an LG, motorola, HTC, pixel, or apple phone do this.
Samsung is a flaming pile of garbage right now.It's "shady". "shaddy", per urban dictionary, is not something anyone woudl want to think about.
Samsung has been caught doing the exact same shady dealings as all the other manufacturers, and has been caught doing this garbage for years (remember their TV capacitor issues?). They have no trus tor standing to be raising prices, and I hope it backfires on them.