is anyone affected by the rampocalypse? gpupocalypse? nandpocalypse?

[Soundproof]

Planned a Linux ProArt rig which eventually should have ended up with 256 gb ram for rendering purposes, the gpu prices dropped slowly to palatble at the time, but there was no way I could defend spending with how the Ram/SSD/GPU pricing has gone ballistic. The ram alone is way more than the total build was before the hikes. Private usage, thus no income related to the project.

It was also planned as an exit Apple, guess the good news would be that my Mac is disposable for more than I paid for it, prices 30+ % up as new, and it is present generation.

 

[Honken]

I got very lucky personally, I made a major refresh of both my "expensive" rigs in 2025. I got some nice G.Skill 2x32G 6000MHz CL26 kit for a massive ~$350 in January that year, and some generic low speed DDR5 ECC 2x64GB kit in October (!) for about $200 (it was on rebate) for my home server.

Now that low latency kit is ~$2300 and the ECC kit seems to go for about ~$2000, plus the VAT which is 25% here.

I also bought some new spinning rust almost a year ago, 8x26TB drives that then cost me about $260 each. They haven't increased in price by as much as the RAM has, but since I bought 8 of them the total price increase can be felt. The price for those drives would be around $690 each now, or about $3500 more in total, plus VAT. Eep.

Crazy times!

 

[dualazmak]

During the past several months, I have been DIY-building my TrueNAS server based on repurposing an outdated Xeon CPU PC-workstation, ASUS P9X79 WS motherboard, Xeon E5-2697 V2 CPU, non-ECC 64 GB RAM, existing five (5) HDDs (6+6+4+4+4 TB for test and validation of ZFS RAIDZ2). If you would be interested in the details of my such project, please visit my newly started thread entitled "Repurposing an outdated Xeon workstation into a quiet, high efficiency, high speed (10Gbps) TrueNAS server".

As you may easily guess, I shall, I should, be waiting until the prices would come down to reasonably affordable levels for ECC RAMs (8GB x 8 = 64GB), M.2 NVMe SSD (1TB or 2TB) for RAIDZ2 caching, as well as six (6) new 8TB server HDDs (5 x 8TB for RAIDZ2, one for possible replacement), all to be implemented/installed after my intensive test/validation procedures; maybe "the timing for purchasing" would not come to the reality within a year or two, or even further year(s)...

 

[Ruediger]

Just building 2 new mediaserver NAS, 180TB each. I am re-using 18TB drives from 2021. Wanted to sell them and get 28/30TB, but it's just not the time for it.

I have two dozen more 18/20TB reserve drives and guess I will go through them in RAID until this peak has passed.

Would love to get more DDR5 for workstations, but waiting.. OK for now.

Luckily I did upgrade big GPUs some time ago, so good on the AI front in general.

Challenging times. The trend is local AI/agents and stop paying the Googapples. The hardware spice must flow!

 

[Barrelhouse Solly]

Micro SD cards, a Raspberry Pi necessity and SSDs have more than doubled.

 

[TonyJZX]

Just building 2 new mediaserver NAS, 180TB each. I am re-using 18TB drives from 2021. Wanted to sell them and get 28/30TB, but it's just not the time for it.

has parallels to the housing market in some countries... the english speaking west for one

you can sell up your stuff and make a profit on it, but how do you get back into the market?

i feel like there's no way there's not a correction

the AI industry is underpinning the global economy so western governments will pour untold amounts of money so OpenAI and Nvidia and that ilk stays solvent so i think any supposed 'price crash' is going to be very muted

they are trading consumer DDR5 6000 ram for registered ECC server ram and these two are not compatible

so the lesson here is to HOLD UP... keep your stuff working, dont buy new stuff, be happy with what you got

its going to be a long wait, not even 2029 2030

2027 28 ram and a heap of components are pre booked for data centers

 

[amper42]

All we need is a slight drop in AI purchases and/or more production and these sky high SSD prices will drop like a rock.

 

[amirm]

My desktop machine from 4 or so years ago was always lightning fast. Then came progressive updates of Windows 11 and going from 3K to 4K display. The machine then started to crawl! This was a Core 8700 with 32 gigabytes of Ram, Nvidia GPU, etc.

Went searching for new machine and prices were insane. But then Costco (warehouse store) put an MSI machine on sale, bringing it down to $1,600. Begrudgingly I bought it and the speed difference is incredible (Intel 256). So it was worth it but boy, this machine should have been half the price.

Then went to buy a simple little box from Unifi for my networking and they had something like a $25 surcharge for Ram!

Went looking to upgrade my tablet and new ones clock at over $1,000! Just insane...

 

[respice finem]

Just building 2 new mediaserver NAS, 180TB each...

Wow, and I thought I'm hoarding too much stuff with my 40(ish) TB

 

[respice finem]

All we need is a slight drop in AI purchases and/or more production and these sky high SSD prices will drop like a rock.

OTOH, AI servers are probably dual use for "Big Brother", so IDK...

 

[Azrael]

II'm a fan of refurbished laptops. When I was looking for a device that could run games decently, I bought a portable workstation, a Lenovo ThinkPad P17 Gen 2. However, it only came with a single 32 GByte DDR4-SO-DIMM installed. To enable dual-channel mode, I therefore bought a second 32 GB SO-DIMM. It cost me almost €250.....

To be honest, that's not the only reason I hope the AI bubble bursts soon.

 

[JeffS7444]

Nothing super-dramatic here, but I paid the new, higher prices for Nintendo Switch 2 + MicroSD Express card (+50 USD). And months prior, I was able to acquire a refurbished Steam Deck for pre-AI price. But even before AI + taxflation, gaming on SteamOS was looking like an attractive and economical alternative to Windows.

It seems I'm trailing far behind the pack with my NAS capacity: 2 TB, in the form of 2x2 TB WD Red mirrored drives. I'd like to up this to at least 4 TB, but admittedly, the main reason I sometimes run out of space is because the backup feature built into Windows 11 only saves stuff, and never deletes obsolete content, so I have to do it manually.

I have about 150 movies on DVD/B-D/4K disk, and that number hasn't varied much, because while I make new acquisitions, I also get rid of stuff which no longer interests me. I opted not to rip this content and store on NAS, because I'd need a bigger NAS for movies that I only infrequently watch. Figured that for my viewing habits and movie collection, dealing with physical disks was no great hardship.

 

[TonyJZX]

https://imgur.com/a/DQsnpU0

this says a lot about where we are in 2026

this is a budget laptop

i think it has soldered ram, the cpu is from a tablet, emmc and a screen from 2009 but i mean people need laptops and this what HP are offering for the poors

 

[noisey]

[...] the main reason I sometimes run out of space is because the backup feature built into Windows 11 only saves stuff, and never deletes obsolete content, so I have to do it manually.

For this purpose I use SyncFolder. You can download it from the Microsoft app store. You can configure scheduled backups and opt to mirror the selected folder paths, so obsolete content will be deleted automatically.

 

[JohnnyNG]

Been watching it from the sidelines but still very happy with the 5800X3D/32GB DDR4-3600 machine I built after a rather fruitful trip to my local Micro Center back in 2022. Kids and I don't game much any more so the RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB will be fine for a long time.
I really should replace the (now a backup) i7 6700k/16GB I built in 2016 but MS just extended the Win10 Extended Security Updates to Oct 2027 so I'll stay lazy and wait for prices of miniPCs (won't bother building) to come back down.

 

[stuartkohl]

I am in reasonably good shape. I had refreshed some of my hardware prior to the price increases, so I have enough RAM and storage for right now.

My future plans have gone right out the window though. I am now trying to avoid buying anything new until the prices return to sanity. I don't know whether prices will return to "normal" happen though, so at some point I will have to purchase new equipment again.

I have been toying with the idea of setting up a NAS and ripping my CDs to it to do streaming. I can't justify that with the current high prices though.

I don't like paying yet another subscription fee, but maybe it's time to look at qobuz or something so I can stream audio from a service and not from a local NAS? I'm not sure if that's the best way to go or not, but I wouldn't have to buy expensive drives for a NAS and I wouldn't have to rip all of my CDs. (Not a process I was really looking forward to...)

One of the worst things (for me anyway) that happened with RAM and storage is that Micron decided to close its Crucial division and no longer sell to consumers. Crucial was my go-to brand for RAM and I bought a number of their SSDs too over the years. I didn't even have to think about a RAM purchase - I just bought Crucial and knew I was getting a good product. I can't count the number of servers, laptops, and desktops that I bought Crucial RAM for. It was nice to support a company in the US too. I guess I felt more loyalty to them than they did to me.

 

[GS430man]

The surge in consumer PC memory and storage prices has changed my timeline for replacing my desktop computer. Will try to wait out the shortages..

 

[Berwhale]

I did the bill of materials for two of my current employers data centres in 2023 and built the DCs in 2024. I don't consider my current employers DCs to be very large (having previously worked for a very large bank) but even so, the total RAM deployed across both DCs is around 600 Terabytes. I think this would have cost somewhere between $2-3 million at the time.

Last November I purchased 2x 16GB DDR5 4800 SODIMMs for £37.99 each...

The same SODIMMs are £194.97 each today (I know some of this increase will be due to Micron killing Crucial, their consumer brand, but the cheapest equivalent is still £160 on Amazon)

I haven't dared look at the cost of server RAM today, but I will need to start planning for the hardware refresh in both DCs next year (at least for budgetary purposes). This is likely to lead to some 'interesting' conversations with the business...

 

[amirm]

The problem with waiting is that relief won't come until 2028. It takes a while to ramp up capacity.

 

[napfkuchen]

My gaming PC (AMD 5800X3D, 36 GB RAM, RTX 4080) would benefit from an upgrade for VR (Bigscreen Beyond 2e, mainly iRacing). RTX 5090 for 2,000 euros and I'm in, which is actually pretty crazy when I think about it. However, right now you can't get one for less than 4,100 euros, and suitable pre-built PCs cost at least 6,000 euros. That crosses a line for me, regardless of my bank balance.
Right now, it makes absolutely no sense to swap out individual components. However, the SSDs, power supply and case of my current computer could easily be reused. And regarding the case specifically, I wouldn't want anything other than my current Fractal Meshify 2 XL: a large black box that makes installing and removing components easy and accommodates as many fans as possible.

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