The RAM crisis is getting worse — I take a look at when prices might fall, and whether you'll ever see the savings when they do

Collection of Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro memory box, several RAM modules, an XPG SSD, and a SK hynix M.2 drive on a dark wooden surface.

If there ever was a golden age of cheap memory and storage, I'm sorry to tell you that it's over.

The 2TB NVMe SSD you bought early last year? It now costs three times what you paid. The 32GB kit of DDR5 RAM that was $90 last summer? It's now somewhere between $300 and $500, if you can find it for sale at all.