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Buy your RAM/NVMe's now if you need it... Here we go...
Why is China making another run for all the RAM in the market? We are being told they are buying all the stock from Kingston, Crucial, etc for their own AI deployment.
From what we are hearing from our suppliers, expect RAM and NVMe shortages in the marketplace from now until Q1 of 2027.
Not sure if this is just a North America shortage or what, but 48GB DDR5 is dang near impossible to find now. 32GB sticks will soon be impacted + NVMe's.
This likely will shake up the bare metal market and eventually trickle down into the consumer market.
What are your thoughts?
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Chyna number one.
We have noticed ddr4 and ddr5 ram prices SKYROCKET (close to 80-90% increase) these past 3 months, it's nearly impossible to find anything reasonable in EU/US
It's pretty annoying when we actively want new hardware but prices make it near impossible
I have very good low latency ddr5 ram, 64 gb, willing to let it go for 2-3k
DM if interested
Because AI is the hot new trend in tech, earlier it was hard drives and Chia, before that it was GPUs and crypto. Not only China, but also every company building datacenters in America is buying hardware as fast as possible.
It'll never get bad enough to make Apple's RAM/Storage upgrade pricing look sane.
You ban them on buying GPUs so they buy RAM... aka GPU(s).
Kinda expected, isn't it? :-D
what a sad truth
Every 6 month I see news about ram and nvme/ssd cost rise.
We all know it's @sillycat who ate all the RAM sticks - thus bringing prices up.
see attached picture below:
Kinda stupid if you ask me.
Why is our costs going up if their costs are going down with advancements in technology/production?
obligatory download more ram joke
demand > supply
Because capitalism. The resellers try grub all the money from market, like it is a last time. Very sad.
Well, then there's the part of capitalism that will spend billions on R&D on new AI memory technology and production now on US manufacturing. There's ups and downs, winners and losers.
Oh, yes, you can tell about r&d to all engineers before 2007, when every year computers makes faster and faster and cost goes down every year. And then iPhone happens. ((((
SSDs are probably fine, they have YMTC and MaxioTech.
Wut?
Yes, it's purely because of a round of heavy infrastructure investment brought by AI. Not only RAM and NVMe, but also traditional HDD.
This is a fair estimation. As someone working in relevant industry, the capacity of all the major fabs in the world manufacturing DRAM/HBM/NAND/TFHeads are completely full at least until Q4 2026, and there's absolutely no way a new fab can be built/qualed within 1-2 years.
R&D it's not a new thing, R&D was in the past and companies spend billions for it. Today every reseller try to by prone case on taobao and sell it for 10x-100x profit. That's why iphone in 2007 was $100 and today more than $1000.
The RAM I bought not long ago doubled in price... it's at 600Eur now, wtf
I checked the price again on the 16GB ddr3 ram I bought back in August. The price is still about the same.
I'm too old.
China may have bought all the RAM, but they will never pay @emgh enough to sell the RamRanch dot com domain and website.
What the fuck
Damn, wtf, I bought ddr5 5600 48gb x 2 for $200 a year ago, now it cost $550 on AliExpress. "Thank you" Trump
is Crucial 128GB 2X64 ddr5 for $300 reasonable deal? is there something wrong with these modules?
Guys am I the only one who sees decent prices?
Actually 2€/GB is the common price I'm seeing in every store.
I'd buy the entire inventory at that price if it's not some random person...
Trump controlling global chinese markets and demand is crazy lol>
@tall_ice said:
ECC or non?
This is desktop/consumer grade, non-ECC RAM. Would not suggest putting non-ECC in a server.
If DDR5, depends on workload and such.
They have high latency, CL46 I think, the one I got are CL36, other similar kits with these better specs also doubled in price.