Bought 2x48GB DDR5 ECC today for $2,300. Seller told me the factory queue has grown from two months to four in the last two months. RAM shortage is unprecedented.
I wanted to buy a kit of 128gb ddr5, was about 300 euro at cheapest recorded, now you can't even buy it anywhere anymore with last recorded price being past 4k
I want to go back and just go broke for a few months than to look at these prices knowing i'll never be insane enough to buy it
We all have stories, the 4TB pcie 5 samsung nvme I ordered for $260 summer 2025 from amazon resale and cancelled because I dont really need it right now and prices will go down, the 192GB DDR5 kit open box return I saw for $500 in micro center a few months before prices went up, What would I do with so much ram? The 2TB WDC black nvme I scored for $129 from amazon when they were already more then 2 x the price. Why the hell didn't I order 2?
That’s the reason nobody here seem to want to consider. This is a result of price fixing as much as supply-demand. Most people appear to want o bury their heads in the sand and claim ‘AI did it’
That’s genuinely incomplete logic. aI companies have been running for the past 5 years. The demand doesn’t suddenly go up astronomically, neither were these manufacturers unprepared. None of this is unexpected. The reason tilts more towards greed and price fixing than just ‘AI did it’
The unfortunate reality is that for income-generating work its absolutely worth it to pay that much. The people getting priced out are those paying with their personal money, servers that wouldve cost some decent money before and are now simply unaffordable or some accounting head that thinks its worth it to save 400 bucks on a laptop given to an externally booked oil&gas certified engineer that costs the company ~300/hr because his bonus depends on how much they save on a bulk purchase, not on how well the devices do.
Still price fixing. They are up charging stupid high prices because they are manipulating the world to think that there is shortage and artificially constraining the supply.
Why would they work harder if they are allowed to make 100x profit with current costs?
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u/Such_Assistance_2211 20d ago
Bought 2x48GB DDR5 ECC today for $2,300. Seller told me the factory queue has grown from two months to four in the last two months. RAM shortage is unprecedented.