Post #1840115

2026-01-23 17:08 UTC

@McWabbit Curious about what's going on. I just checked the price at Newegg of a SAMSUNG 990 EVO 1TB SSD I bought last April. It has gone up about 60%. That's huge, but it's not 400%. I should add -- I'm certainly on board with the thought expressed here. There's SO MUCH here that is a deep problem, I'm not clear that this chip-futures-buying thing adds much.

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@McWabbit@tenforward.social 2026-01-23 18:17

@adardis Probably not affecting SSD storage memory at the moment that much. But if one needs RAM memory and for example is located in The Netherlands like me, just visit the price watch page of our popular local tech site and look up DDR5 RAM, e.g.: https://tweakers.net/pricewatch/2064068/kingston-fury-beast-kf560c30bbek2-32.html It has a graph in which the pricing history can be tracked. In this example the price of a kit of 2x 16GB cost around €135 last April. At the moment the pricing is around €425. The spike started around fall 2025 when the scheme began. Similar results of kits from other brands and types: https://tweakers.net/geheugen-intern/vergelijken/#filter:q1YqKMpMTvXNzFOyMtBRKi5ITXbLzClJLSpWsqpWMjQ2B1FliTlKVtFKxgbGhkqxtTpKppYg0VyQHiUjJR2l3MQKMAsoZWJpaICQNDTTM4DLgzm1tbUA Browsing through Newegg, the prices of RAM are ridiculously high as well.

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