Post #1967064

2026-03-03 13:50 UTC

@digitalraven That's a 330% increase. That's way, way, way beyond anything I've seen which makes me wonder if this particular vendor is price gouging. Out of curiosity, have you shopped around at all?

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@digitalraven@retro.pizza 2026-03-03 13:55

@fuzzygroup I have, and that increase is across the board for all vendors on the UK academic purchasing contracts. This server needs a reasonable amount of RAM — 4TB+, a lot by consumer standards, but mid-range for the compute we're doing.

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@mikebabcock@floss.social 2026-03-04 21:47

@fuzzygroup @digitalraven this is not one vendor. Everything in RAM and solid state storage is basically sold out.

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@_eike@chaos.social 2026-03-05 10:13

@fuzzygroup @digitalraven unfortunately not just a single vendor. We have seen similar increases in similar hardware with multiple distributors and OEMs. Anything that has decent amounts of RAM, flash, or HDD has been going up ludicrously fast with availability going down and being forecast to be near zero come Q3/Q4. Likewise not doing "AI" bs, regular old compute on-premise. If you want to follow along, open a price hisory graph for available ddr5 rdimm 64 GB RAM, go to a 6 month timescale.

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