Budget. A perfect balance between price and performance.
This issue’s been an interesting one for Blueprints. What we’re seeing across the industry is a slow but steady increase in SSD prices across the board. Almost every single SSD pick we had from last issue has increased by $20-30. This is likely down to those bumper New Year and Black Friday deals finally subsiding. However, we’re mildly concerned that this may be a continuing trend across the industry, depending on how NAND pricing continues moving forward. It’s one to watch, for sure.
Our budget builds for this issue have remained reasonable, all things considered. Changes were minimal – we’ve swapped a few components out across the two
