Post #3482542
2026-06-23 01:41 UTC
My question is: how far back in time do we have to go to get to where RAM and SSD prices were this high (for a given capacity) in the past? Like 2021?
Replies (2)
-
@jordanlund@lemmy.world 2026-06-23 02:25
The last time we saw a price spike like this was when the Chinese adhesives factory caught fire and burned to the ground, those adhesives were used in all kinds of chips. 2013 - but even then it wasn’t this bad. theguardian.com/…/china-fire-memory-chip-prices There were also supply chain problems during Covid. 2020-2023: www.sciencedirect.com/…/S2405896322017293
-
@tty5@lemmy.world 2026-06-23 03:19
Much longer than that. There was a spike in 2021 that brought high end 2x8gb ddr4 kits to about $180-200 but that’s still significantly less than what you pay for decent ddr5 now. I think you’d have to look to back to early DDR3 or even further to DDR2 prices to get higher per gb amounts.