If you were wondering why the prices of flash drives keep changing so often, that’s because USB chips are traded like a commodity. It’s true – check it out here.

This, from brandinnovation:

A USB flash drive consists of various components which include the Flash Memory Chip (NAND) and USB Controllers. There are only a few companies globally that manufacture and supply these memory chips and thus supplies are limited.

These chips are used in a large variety of electronic products. When big companies from various sectors purchase large orders of these chips, it means that the supply in the market it less, and thus the price becomes more.

As with any other commodity, there are byers and sellers with trades going on every day. As the demand and buys of the chips increase, the price increases. When the demand is less and the sellers have lots of stock, they can lower the price in order to move stock.

[more here]

Pretty interesting.

While we’re at it, have you seen the prices they’re currently trading at? I’d say now is a pretty damn good time to stock up on your flash drives!

These guys are selling a pack of 3 X 8GB flash drives for only R269.

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