Anyone who read January’s price report will feel a sense of déjà vu. This week, specific SSD models are Tk 500 to Tk 2,000 dearer in Dhaka’s computer markets depending on brand and capacity — a sharper move than the Tk 500–1,000 rise seven months ago. Sellers again describe everything else as roughly stable: processors, motherboards and graphics cards are where they were.
The prices that have not moved
| Part | Model | Price (Tk) |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Core Ultra 9 285K | 72,000 |
| CPU | Intel Core i9, 14th gen | 56,000 |
| CPU | Intel Core Ultra 7 265K | 36,000 |
| CPU | Intel Core i7, 14th gen | 50,000 |
| CPU | Intel Core i5-14600KF | 38,000 |
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 9 7950X | 47,500 |
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 7 5700G | 23,500 |
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 5 5600G | 19,000 |
| Board | Asus Prime H610M (DDR4) | 10,600 |
| Board | Gigabyte B760M Gaming X (DDR4) | 20,000 |
| RAM | Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB DDR4-3200 | 13,000 |
| RAM | G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB 32 GB DDR5-6000 | 64,000 |
Two quiet shifts are worth noting in that table: the budget AMD chips have crept up since July — the Ryzen 5 5600G from Tk 16,000 to Tk 19,000 and the 5700G from Tk 19,000 to Tk 23,500 — eroding the value advantage they had over Intel’s mid-range.
Why storage keeps rising
The local explanation is import batches landing at higher cost. The global one is more structural. The NAND flash chips inside every SSD are also what fills the storage tiers of AI data centres, and the hyperscalers building those centres are buying enterprise flash in volumes that consume factory capacity for months ahead. Consumer drives get what is left, at whatever price that implies. Memory makers have also cut output of older, cheaper NAND generations. None of this reverses quickly, which is why 2026 has seen two rises and no meaningful fall.
How to buy around it
- Buy the capacity you need now, not the capacity you might need. A 512 GB or 1 TB boot drive plus a spinning disk for bulk files is still the cheapest working combination; 2 TB hard drives remain around Tk 10,000.
- Check the DRAM-less budget drives. Models like the Team MP33 have risen less than the premium NVMe lines and are perfectly adequate for a boot drive.
- Do not skip the SSD to save money. A PC that boots from a hard disk in 2026 is miserable to use; cut the graphics card or the RGB before you cut the SSD.
