{"id":113025,"date":"2016-12-05T10:10:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T08:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=113025"},"modified":"2016-12-05T10:11:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T08:11:09","slug":"ssd-prices-expected-to-soar-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/113025-ssd-prices-expected-to-soar-worldwide","title":{"rendered":"SSD prices expected to soar worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAND flash prices are expected to increase dramatically in the next couple of weeks, reports <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/228350\/ssd-pricing-to-surge-on-the-back-of-nand-shortages-stock-your-ssd-needs\" target=\"_blank\">TechPowerUp<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest reasons for the price increase is smartphones, specifically the surging prices in the DRAM market, spurred by the Note 7 fiasco and increased production of that smartphone&#8217;s competitors to fill the gaping hole left by its forcible market removal.<\/p>\n<p>The other big cause for the price hike is increased demand, with prices increasing 6%-10% this quarter alone due to low supply.<\/p>\n<p>So what does all this actually mean for you the consumer?<\/p>\n<p>Quite simply, if you were planning to pick up an SSD, now would be the time to do so.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/112633-you-may-need-to-upgrade-your-cpu-over-your-graphics-card-in-2017.html\" target=\"_blank\">You may need to upgrade your CPU over your graphics card in 2017<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were planning on picking up an SSD, now would be the time to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":113033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[31,6809,11983,23641,2101,23643],"class_list":["post-113025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-harddrive","tag-prices","tag-soar","tag-ssd","tag-surge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113039,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113025\/revisions\/113039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}