As if skyrocketing RAM prices wasn't enough, Kingston's Datacentre SSD Business Manager Cameron Crandall says to expect rising SSD costs throughout 2026, confirming what we already feared. Why? Crandall, who has worked at Kingston for 29 years, says the company is experiencing NAND wafer price spikes the likes of which have never been seen before.
In conversation with Mark Hachman on The Full Nerd Network podcast, Crandall got specific, saying there's been "a 246% increase in NAND pricing as compared to Q1 of 2025." He later goes on to elaborate, "We just recently saw a 70% increase in NAND costs over… I think it was a 60-day period. So, that 250% I mentioned earlier—70% of that was increased within the last 60 days."
