It has definitely been a crazy few months for prices.

On 2025-12-18 I bought a RPi 5 kit on Amazon from CanaKit that consisted of an 8 GB Pi 5 with the official RPi 5 256 GB SSD, case, fan, 45W power supply, and some cables which came fully assembled.

It was $209.99.

Today it is $339.97.

On 2025-09-02 I bought a Samsung 1 TB EVO Plus M.2 SSD along with along with a Sabrent USB-C M.2/SATA enclosure to use with my RPi 4.

It was $64.99 for the SSD and $22.75 for the enclosure.

Today the SSD is $255.00 (down a little from the $261.08 it reached last month) and the enclosure is $29.95.

BTW, if you are looking for an RPi it looks like you can't rely on the prices shown on rpilocator.com.

Right now for example it lists RPi 5 8 GB in stock in the US for $80 (Digi-Key), $175 (Pishop), and $200 (Adafruit). Similar for 4 GB ($60, $110, $130 at those three sellers, in the same order). Same pattern for RPi 4. 8 GB from the same three sellers in the same order: $75, $165, $190. 4 GB $55, $100, $120.

Clicking the links reveals all the Digi-Key entries are wrong. Their actual price is the same as Pishop (whose rpilocator.com entries seem to be correct).

Hopefully there's a glut in the future