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What is going on with SD card prices right now?

I bought this v90 SD card just a couple months ago and it’s now doubled in price. I know AI infrastructure is destroying the RAM market and some flash storage, but is this really affecting SD card prices as well?

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Got a delkin power 512 CFE for £130 before it all went to shit. Now it’s 3x the price.

The SD cards I bought in November for $25 are now $100🥲 currently saving all my raws on an external hard drive and wiping all my cards to reuse. Also got curious and looked at my ram I bought when I built my PC. I remember buying 2 16gb ram sticks for $23ish dollars like in 2023. Ridiculously cheap. And now those same ram sticks are $250 😭

Bloody hell! I bought 2 x 128g Lexar pro cards from Amazon back in October for £47. A single 128g card is now £64. That’s insane!

Same exact thing that is happening to DRAM is happening to flash memory. Because they are basically manufactured the same way by the same companies.

There is a shortage and all the capacity is used to manufacture the kind of memory the AI industry is buying. Like all of it.

Components used to make those are also used in flash memory. Not only, but production equipment and square footage and staffing that make SD cards are being converted to produce more licrative storage and memory options to tailor to AI customers, which means reduced/canned production as well.

SD cards fall under the category of flash storage. The whole market is getting hit.

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