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Hosting prices could increase sharply by the end of the year
They do, as when you need stuff, well, you need it.
anyone up for a 512 MB ram offer? quarter core, 40 MB drive
, 1x IPv4 shared on 256 customers. 
On the more realistic side, any DDR3 offers lately?
I also wish to point out my pain:
WE ordered some spare parts for a customer, as he has 8 storage units with 22 TB SATA drives and since we kinda "trust no one" brand wise, we convinced him to have at least 2 spares / node, just in case.
On 12-01-2026 MG10 22TB MAMR 22TB was 2,220.15 RON + VAT ( 519 USD + 21% VAT )
On 26-01-2026 MG10 22TB MAMR 22TB was 2.294 RON + VAT ( 534 USD + 21% VAT )
Today 02-02-2026 same shit si 2322 RON + VAT ( 540 USD + 21% VAT )
Supplier ( 2 of them ) said that I should ignore whatever price we see on the website and ask for an update before ordering )
We found a few cheaper then the above price on the net, by the time we ordered, we got the usual : out of stock message. It is getting FUN FUN each day......
so
Yeah, 640kb should be enough
We are just spoiled with those many years of cheap ram prices. In the old days we were happy with 16KB expansion boards. Whole multi user systems fits on 64kb of ram. But then again the programmers then were rocket scientists. Now programmers are vibe coders.
They start crying when they have to type a semicolon. or dont want to use tabs.
We are far past the time where programmers spent any significant time trying to optimize for RAM-usage, and it really is sad. Just look at how much "black magic" they put into creating amazing NES games, the optmiziation was insane.
So a nice 2x 32 GB DDR5 is as much as a usable car???
~1630 USD
Now that is not a speed daemon or a Ferrari, but I will take the shitty city car any day of the week.
It is getting a bit outrageous.
Wonder what price tag will a 32GB DDR5 Video-card will be?? as that shit is already at 1K USD.
Well, I guess back to Spider Solitare we shall go
you can buy a house in your country for 6624 LEI or 2 DDR ramsticks
They're as rare as people who could write their own compiler
here > @rpqu said:
Hello Grok, write me a compiler for hardware xyz in language abc.
And BOOM done.
Sorry, from scratch, without AI or book. Preferably written on paper
ah back in the good old days when I use to write assembly code for my apple 2c 6502 cpu. Back when you couldn't handle real electrical enginering you took that easy new fangled computer engineering degree...
There’s only so much providers can absorb while maintaining sustainable growth. Eventually, the entire industry will need to adjust to this new normal. While extending the life of existing hardware may help in the short term, new purchases will become unavoidable and those costs will be reflected in pricing. Our advice: if you currently have a server at a good price, hold onto it for as long as possible.
Our best estimate is that RAM prices could double again within the next six months, with NVMe pricing following a similar trend. It’s not just about cost availability is becoming a serious issue. CPUs are selling out quickly, DDR5 is nearly impossible to source, U.2 NVMe drives have already doubled in price, and server chassis are facing long lead times. AI demand shows no signs of slowing down. Unfortunately, this is likely the new normal for at least the next few years, until production capacity catches up and even then, there is little incentive for rapid price corrections.
I think so!
Both solutions would be amazing!
I hope it will be like this!
I may have an explanation why also HDD prices are increasing. Maybe providers are starting to offer more SWAP memory to cope for RAM memory shortages, or else in the HDD there’s some components they are starting to produce less due to the global shortage. Or, last possibility, since nvme prices are increasing, people are going back to HDD’s.
Unpopular opinion: Assembly is the god of programming languages!
No clue, but even the gap between used 1 Year Drives with 12 moths warranty and New ones is getting to a 30%, at this point, it makes no reason to buy used drives, as on new ones, I do love the 60 Moths warranty, especially on 22-26TB units.
This inevitably feeds into service pricing.
24 × $540 is very different from 24 × $410, and that difference has to be absorbed somewhere.
I highly doubt the 512 MB Cache the drive has is the culprit here. But the prices started rising like June-July 2025, slowly, but if you look back now, the gap is significant.
Also, on the SAS Interface, prices are like porn high, really high, we are talking about 30% higher then last year for the same capacity.
SAS has gone from “enterprise premium” to borderline insane.
I still put this under speculation of the supply chain, as well, if one storage type gets expensive, let's raise the price on all type of medium “just because”.
Too soon to tel right now, but I will stand by my feeling that at this point, today, most of the price hike is speculation and some in the supply chain just taking advantage of it.
LOL, it is like Crypto Shit Coins on forums, a few threads with positive speculation on the Shit-Coin in question and the coin goes from 0.000001 USD to 1.5 USD in hours and in the next morning to 0.00000000000000001, only difference is that prices here went up rapidly, and the descent will be a slow one as there is a continued demand.
PS: We actually just returned a few 16 TB SAS drives to a supplier right before their warranty expired.
Since then, we’ve had a small email thread where they’re trying to offer anything else but not replacement drives.
I love this job!
How many TBs do you own in total?
well...
https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/FURY-Beast-DDR5-5600-5800-8G_1600383226244.html?spm=a2700.prosearch.normal_offer.d_title.7d7d67af0x6NF4&priceId=fee1554e8d2546e581ca94d53cdc706c
Better make the order for kingdian and maxsun soon
Rough numbers:
Mix of RAID6 and RAID60 (some 2×12, some 3×8), so roughly ~3 PB raw
Business side: ~1 PB usable, RAID10 only, so about ~2 PB raw
All in, that puts us at ~5 PB raw total, a bit less probably
Add to that roughly ~6 TB of DDR4 RAM, and honestly… from a purely timing perspective, this would be a perfect moment to exit and $$$ out.
If I were 22, I probably would — plenty of time to start something new.
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But the real concern today is replacements. We do have spare parts on hand, but those won’t last forever, and replacing parts at today’s prices is a very different game than it was a year ago. ( I will not say a word how good it was in 2024 or 2023 )
The later issue is the part that actually keeps my attention right now.
https://alibaba.com/product-detail/FURY-Beast-DDR5-5600-5800-8G_1600383226244.html?spm=a2700.prosearch.normal_offer.d_title.7d7d67af0x6NF4&priceId=fee1554e8d2546e581ca94d53cdc706c
Nice
frequency 1333 - lol, that is DDR3 territory.
Mentions “REG ECC” = server memory
Later says “Non-ECC Unbuffered”= PC Memory
Later is says Desktop application
The fuq of a hybrid is this, I would not be surprised if that would be DDR2 posed as DDR3 and sold as DDR5.
PS:
One of the feedback's:
My son is enjoying using the product the only thing we don’t like is the plug which we could not use and had to buy an eu compatible plug
hey folks in the USA, does the DDR5 memory have a different "PLUG" over there then in Europe?
Also, every size is $89. 2x8gb? $89. 64gb? $89.
One size fit's all
Ah, seems like the 2TB usb device
from Beijing Beauty Flooring Decoration Materials Co., Ltd.?
wow #6 bestseller in alababa memory, gimme 64gb for $89 why buy 8 same price
That was my thought 😅
I am not sure if it's related or not, but even DDR3 (what Slow Servers uses) has done up in price.
I was getting 8GB ECC 1.35V unbuffered dimms for about $10 a piece. A month or so later it's $15+.
Registered dimms use a little bit more power, but they seem cheaper and more available. I've been wondering if 2x16GB RDIMMs use the same amount of power as 4x8GB unbuffered... Had two slots on a motherboard go out, so I should be able to test this in a day or two when it comes in.
2 RDIMMS 16gb consume almost every time less than 4x8gb RDIMMS. Anyway you should always try to fill all the cpu channels for maximum performance.