About a week ago I ordered 32GB of RAM for a new PC.
I paid $190.
It costs about $300 today. This is ridiculous.
this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2025
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It's a good time to preserve old hardware and the software that will run on it. If all these price crunches have a silver lining, I hope it's that they motivate people to resist the pressure from tech corporations to be constantly upgrading.
I'm glad I bought my 128GB 18 months ago.
It's ECC too. 
Yeah… I kinda regret not buying some ram that popped up for cheap like 3 months ago.
This is not new. This is why computer cases from HP had locks in the early 2000s, people would steal RAM sticks from offices and equipment.