• Should I Buy RAM Now?

  The 2026 memory market, what the data says about waiting, and how to tell a fair price from a bad one.

  Updated October 13, 2026

• Should I Buy an SSD Now?

  A decade of falling storage prices, what broke in late 2025, and how to buy a drive well in the market we actually have.

  Updated October 13, 2026

Explainers

• Why Is RAM So Expensive in 2026?

  What drove the memory price surge, why it landed on consumers, and what the industry's own cycle says about how it ends.

  Updated October 13, 2026

• Will RAM prices go back down?

  The one completed memory cycle in our data: what the 2017 to 2018 DDR4 spike did, how long it took to unwind, and where prices sit against it now.

  Updated October 13, 2026

• Is Prime Day a good time to buy RAM? What ten years of prices show

  Every Prime Day, October Prime sale and Black Friday weekend since 2017, measured against ordinary weeks in the same year. Where the regular price actually moves, and where it does not.

  Updated October 13, 2026