Boycotting AI and finally popping that bubble will lower RAM prices. And energy prices. And it will preserve employment...

Back in the 1990s I paid over $500 for 16MB of ram. A production facility somewhere in Asia had burned down and ram high priced for almost a year. A month earlier and the entire computer would not have cost that much. Even though I am not hopeful I am boycotting AI. Actually AI is not artificial intelligence it is more like computerized lying.

Bought 48GB at 270€ of crucial 5600MHz yesterday on amazon. It made the price jump to 460€ after my purchase

Pretty much expected, but anything bringing more supply to the market, from a different reseller who will want you to buy their stuff instead of someone else's, will help here. It's a force that'll pull down the price more in time.

Honestly, I expect RAM prices will plummet in the future. Basically every RAM manufacturer has announced huge factory expansions, the disastrous consumer market is legitimizing these Chinese competitors that are improving and growing quickly, and I can't imagine the AI demand is permanent. Companies will get tired of spending a fortune on replacing GPUs before they've even come close to earning back their cost, and the market will be flooded with supply for a while.

RAM has gone through this cycle several times before, with all the collusion and price-fixing those companies do. If anything, these Chinese companies outside of the existing manufacturers should make a permanent improvement in the market, assuming they don't just lobby our governments into banning them for nonsensical "security concerns".

Right yeah we gotta wait for the production to ramp up

Man my work computer has 64gb ddr5 and I'm almost tempted take half out and scalp it 😂

My work place began to offer coupons for different stuff though some sort of partnership and they had WD coupons that give 25% discount for NAS equipment including HDDs.

I have 4 bay NAS with only 1x 12tb drive that I desperately wanted to expand to RAID5 asap but couldnt due to high HDD prices. This coupon saved me 100 euros per hdd. So, pulled the trigger, all hyped up that in a few next months I'll finish collecting my infinity NAStones.

Welcome to today. WD repoted all drives sold out for 2026. It is either almost twice the price for amazon WD/Seagate sellers or used market (I got one recertifie 12tb drive before and it died less than 7 months in).

Fuck me I guess...

I feel quite lucky to have a Microcenter near me. Just built a computer and they included 32 GB of RAM for free.

Bring back ddr4, this current stuff suuuuuucks.

Yeah, it’s a global commodity, like oil but without the petrodollars.