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What an SSD Warranty Actually Refunds in a Shortage

Amber chart drawn to scale: a 4TB portable SSD's street price climbing from its $199.99 invoice to the above-$500 listing reported in August 2026, with a dashed reference line on the same scale at the $199.99 the warranty refund pays and a bracket marking the gap between them. Headline reads SSD warranty refunds, $200 back, $500+ to replace.

A failed drive is now settled by a clause most buyers never read, YMTC wants the NAND crown by 2027, and Samsung's new Odyssey OLEDs change subpixels rather than headline numbers.

Saya
August 29, 2026

Hardware

AMD Clears 30 Percent of Client x86 While DDR4 Sells Intel’s Older Chips

Headline above a donut ring whose green arc is exactly 30.3 percent of the full circle, AMD share of the whole client x86 market, to scale.

Mercury Research put AMD past 30 percent of client x86 for the first time, and two Intel chips returned to Amazon's top ten. DDR5 pricing links the two.

Saya
August 26, 2026