Do you mean relative to six months ago, or now? Because a lot of the prices have already more than doubled.

(I’m upset because the computer I’ve been planning to build, which three months ago would have come to around ₹90,000, is now up to ₹1,20,000 and climbing week by week, half due to price increases on the same part, half due to forced substitutions on RAM since the cheaper 32GB 6400MT/s DDR5 sticks are completely unavailable. And looking into laptops, for the first time ever I’m seeing manufacturet SODIMM or SSD upgrades being cheaper than aftermarket.)

Per the op:

> and the ongoing DRAM shortage is proof of this, with memory kits costing more than double what they did just a few months ago.

> While enterprise-grade QLC SSDs would entirely power this pivot, Sandisk has already raised NAND prices by 50%, according to another DigiTimes report, after initially warning of a 10% increase two months ago.

So you're basically saying prices may return to normal in two years, and that's somehow a good thing compared to them not being inflated in the first place?

I think it's the higher density that makes it better for cold storage, which generally has infrequent access, and more reads than writes.

Hence the QLC's endurance being "sufficient for cold storage".