If you’ve been thinking about upgrading your PC’s storage or adding more memory, you might want to act sooner rather than later. Reports out of South Korea suggest that Samsung, one of the world’s largest suppliers of DRAM and NAND, will be raising prices in the near future—a move that could ripple across the entire tech industry.
According to New Daily, Samsung’s DRAM products will see significant increases starting in Q4 2025, with prices expected to climb anywhere from 15 to 30 percent. NAND drives, which power most modern SSDs, will also be affected, though at a slightly smaller rate of 5 to 10 percent. Analysts point to soaring demand from cloud providers as one of the primary drivers of these hikes. With AI workloads and data centers consuming unprecedented amounts of memory and storage, suppliers are finding themselves in a position to push prices upward.
But Samsung isn’t the only company tightening the screws on buyers. Wccftech reports that SanDisk will bump prices for its NAND products by about 10 percent, while Micron is preparing even steeper hikes of 20 to 30 percent across its memory and storage lineup. Together, these moves point to a broader industry trend that could make SSDs, RAM kits, and even prebuilt PCs noticeably more expensive over the next few months.
For consumers, the message is clear: if you’ve been putting off a hardware upgrade, now is the time to act before Q4 arrives. The window for grabbing memory and storage at their current prices is closing, and once these increases hit, it’s unlikely we’ll see the kind of steep discounts that were common just a year or two ago.
