It's possible the price pop is happening because of people trying to find spare parts. I can't speak to these specific devices because I haven't been doing inf

It's possible the price pop is happening because of people trying to find spare parts. I can't speak to these specific devices because I haven't been doing infrastructure work since before 2015, but I recall the price of certain enterprise products would routinely skyrocket a few years after it became hard to find them. I recall having to source a replacement drive for a server at my Dad's company and discovering that finding any drive at least 4.5GB in capacity for this 15 year old server was challenging. I ended up having to buy a much larger drive at about twice the cost of a modern (at the time) enterprise-grade SAS drive. I doubt my specific example is all that similar to what might be happening. In my case, it was a confluence of the usual suspects: RAID controllers that are very particular about the specific drive models/firmware versions that they work reliably with (which everyone else needs to replace their drives, too!) coupled with the server using a no-longer-common interface (SCA) and a drive tray specific to the vendor which was no longer a popular (and went Bankrupt)[0]. I suspect it's too soon for it to be that simple but I wonder if there are specific circumstances where "My Optane drive failed and replacing this drive at any cost is the only fix that gets me access to my data, again". [0] Not important, but it was a Gateway brand server if you can believe it. And I ended up kludging the tray situation, anyway.