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32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 minimum — AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 124 points 5 months ago (15 children)

HDDs have doubled in price recently too. Not a good time to try building a computer.

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  • [–] 80 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    Building a computer like 5 years from now will be a weird experience because you will buy most parts from brands that you have never heard of. Very few of the manufacturers we know today will still be around by that time.

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  • [–] 31 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    They will have Chinese RAM by then, so yeah, its going to be the random made up Amazon/Temu Chinese brands.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    AmzRamBar24

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Which is the same thing as the GOODKINDSTICK that everyone says is really good, but only if you get the V3.65 from 2025, the new stuff is garbage.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    And you have to be careful because their versioning is broken. Version 5 is older than 3.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    The Xbox 1 says hi

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  • [–] 30 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Much more than doubled. Most high-TB drives are not in stock anywhere, and even if you find a drive, the best deals are around $26-28/TB for used drives, whereas before new deals would be $10/TB. If you're looking for a specific new capacity, you may be paying $36-40/TB.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I've been putting 12tb used SAS drives in my Plex server. The used market went up about 30% from last year for the same drives. I think I paid $115 each before, now they're $150.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I don't doubt you found a deal somewhere, but here's what I'm seeing:

    $229 for 12TB used SAS: https://diskprices.com/?locale=us&condition=new%2Cused&capacity=12-12&disk_types=external_hdd%2Cexternal_hdd25%2Cinternal_hdd%2Cinternal_hdd25%2Cinternal_sshd%2Cinternal_sas%2Cexternal_ssd%2Cinternal_ssd%2Cm2_ssd%2Cm2_nvme%2Cu2

    That's admittedly better than $26/TB, but I also had been looking at 20-24TB drives. That's the other change - the lowest-$/TB (highest value) TB size is has decreased substantially (from around 20-24 in late 2025, to 10-12 now).

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It's interesting, that's what I felt was happening, but when I looked at the charts, it seems they are less than double. Either way it feels really expensive.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I think it depends on the drive sizes, whether you accept used, and if we're comparing bare to shuckable, but yeah, for drives that I am looking for in the 20-26TB range (new, since I don't have enough parity/redundancy to trust used drives), it seems more like 2.5-4x cost.

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