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Nice - Recommend adding LPDDR variants, info on lead times, currency toggle button, and lastly maybe consider adding other memories commonly paired (e.g. eMMC, NVMe, etc.) but perhaps is out of scope.
This supply crunch is such a fraud - I was on a call with a analyst group covering the memory market and they described the current situation in hilariously depressing corpo speak:
"Pricing dynamics are reflective of coordinated production discipline amongst major suppliers."
I had to give them props, that is one of the most creative ways to describe the pricing fixing cartels.
We ran into this building out our last server batch. Bought ahead when prices dipped and saved maybe 30% versus six months later. Site like this would've helped us time it better.
In June 2024, for my home gaming PC, instead of platform swapping to AM5, I decided to coast on a 5700X3D while they were on sale for ~$190 and 32 GB DDR4 3200MHZ for ~$50. Added a 9070XT last year for MSRP but don't remember the exact price.
While it was the right idea at the time (for me), I wonder if I should have upgraded while the prices were a little more "normal"...
I have 2x32GB DDR4 from Teamgroup that I purchased in 2023 for about $100. One of the sticks recently died. The RMA process has been a nightmare, so I looked on AMZN to check and see how expensive it would be to just re-order and replace them. $600. Absolutely insane tbh.
So I have an NIB sealed Corsair Vengeance 96 GiB (2x48) DDR5-5600 SO-DIMM and it's looking like $1100 USD would be a reasonable price point given comparables and there's zero supply at present.
It's pretty crazy when computer components go tulip bulbs better than gold.
Which is still slightly useful - I've got two Dell Wyze 5070, fanless, and being able to load them with 16 GB of ddr3 ram each for a song meant they were basically an obvious upgrade from being so cramped for RAM running a Raspberry Pi 4.
The DDR3 non-ECC market collapsed pretty quickly once server demand dried up. ECC DDR3 still fetches decent prices for home lab use, but consumer sticks — as you found — are nearly worthless now.
Hard drives are trickier -- prices move a lot on capacity tiers, not just model. Would a $/TB normalized view even be useful, or does workload matter too much?
I checked the prices for 64GB DDR5. There's some variance based on brand/model but the average and trend seems more or less right. Did you happen to notice that it is about prices in the EU?
Source is a Dutch price comparison website. They have a undocumented API where I can fetch price history from. I picked a kit from each category and that's the prices your seeing.
IIRC DDR4 SO-DIMM and standard DDR4 are priced pretty differently, so mixing them in comparisons gets messy. The site seems to conflate them in a few spots unless I'm misreading it.
This supply crunch is such a fraud - I was on a call with a analyst group covering the memory market and they described the current situation in hilariously depressing corpo speak:
"Pricing dynamics are reflective of coordinated production discipline amongst major suppliers."
I had to give them props, that is one of the most creative ways to describe the pricing fixing cartels.