Buy, buy, buy – SSD prices might jump up 40% this year
If you build computers, you've probably noticed just how cheap SSDs are these days. You can get a 
According to a report from DigiTimes quoting unnamed sources, chipmakers are saying that NAND and DRAM memory could rise by at much as 40% this year. Prices are already starting to go up. While it's tough to look at unnamed sources and completely trust them, that upward trend is enough to say that now might be the right time to drop an NVMe drive into your system to get that speed boost.
That NVMe SSD is worth the price
If you haven't looked at the benefits of an SSD just yet, there's no time better than the present. If you're somehow still on a traditional hard drive with rotating magnetic platters, you're getting a throughput topping out at around 200MB/sec, and the real-world results are likely a bit lower than that. Jumping to SSD will see your read/write speeds climbing up to somewhere between 300-600 MB/sec depending on the drive and the SATA interface you plug it into. If your motherboard has an M.2 NVMe slot, you could see speeds climbing up to a theoretical max of 3,500 MB/s with a good NAND NVMe M.2 drive. That's something like five times the speed of a SATA SSD and 15 times that of a traditional hard drive.
In other words, the benefits of upgrading are tangible and will change the experience of using your computer on a moment-to-moment basis. There's a reason gamers are so excited about the PlayStation 5 and new Xbox switching to SSD next year.
Of course, we need to put in the disclaimer that you shouldn't go out and buy a NAND NVMe SSD tonight just because we said so, but we're definitely 
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