MP 7,1 Memory prices increasing dramatically

[cjsuk]

Got a **** load of DDR5 sitting around here not used. The DDR5 pricing is peaking now so sell sell sell.

 

[mattspace]

What about those old ZIP Drives. I come from that time, and also QuarkXPress at one point. Then moved to the Adobe world, and eventually into the huge enterprise CMS systems.

1994: Quark XPress 3.32 was AU$1900, Photoshop 3 was AU$1600, 800DPI UMAX A4 scanner was AU$1200.

PowerMac 7100/66AV, Radius 24XK, Sony 17SF1, SyQuest 270. Turnkey DTP.

Still have a ZIP, and a JAZZ drive in storage somewhere.

 

[Non-Euclidean]

More good news!

PC hardware vendor PNY suspends Black Friday storage deals — cites rising NAND costs​

PC hardware vendor PNY suspends Black Friday storage deals — cites rising NAND costs

A sign of things to come?

www.tomshardware.com

 

[tsialex]

I've been following memory prices pratically daily since this insane rise started, even long obsolete DDR3-1600 almost doubled the price and one interesting thing, distributors went back to sell 4GB DIMMs after years with 8GB DIMMs being the smallest module available.

Who would imagine one year ago that 4GB DIMMs would return from the grave back in 2025 and low cost PCs are now being sold with just 4GB of RAM. Windows can barely run Windows Update with just 4GB…

DDR5 prices are so prohibitive right now, no frills 16GB 5600MHz DIMMs from no-name brands are now around US $100, that AM4 motherboards are now selling 5x more than AM5 since the DDR4 rise was not so absurd and Ryzen 5xxx CPUs are a lot more afordable and still have good performance.