Your SSD will outlive your entire PC, so don't overpay for a bigger one right now
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NAND flash prices have risen roughly fourfold due to enterprise AI demand, with the retail SSD market nearly disappearing and prices not expected to stabilize until 2028. Despite the urge to stockpile storage, SSDs are uniquely durable components — a standard 1TB TLC drive rated at 600–700 TBW would take about a decade to wear out even under heavy daily use. Unlike GPUs or CPUs, SSDs don't become obsolete through generational leaps. The advice: buy only the capacity you need right now, skip the speculative extra terabytes, avoid overpaying for PCIe 5.0 drives (Gen 4 offers better value per GB for most workloads), and wait for prices to normalize before expanding storage.
