Buy an SSD While They're Still Cheap: Contamination Ruins 6.5 Billion Gigabytes of Storage

A manufacturing defect affecting millions of terabytes of storage means a new supply crunch.

- By Michael Crider

While the chip shortage continues, graphics cards and CPUs are hard to find and wickedly expensive on the secondary market. Newfangled DDR5 RAM is also hard to locate, and even motherboards are getting pricey. But the one component that’s remained refreshingly cheap is storage: You can find multi-terabyte drives at their lowest prices ever, even for the best SSDs (fave.co/2Z26gQg).