Get your cheap memory while growing stockpiles push prices low

Semiconductor stockpiles appear to be growing due to the slowdown in demand, which is bad news for chipmakers but could be good news for anyone in the market for a memory or SSD upgrade. According to Bloomberg, South Korea’s semiconductor inventory rose by 83 percent in April compared with a year earlier, said to be the …

[Michael Hoffmann]

Tempting

The top-tier DDR4 RAM I got 2 years ago now costs less than half of what I paid in those scarcity days. Might be time to just update every machine in the house to the max amount they can handle.

[ecofeco]

Re: Tempting

I was just thinking the same thing.

[Apprentice Human]

The image is a hard drive interface

Well, not much else to say.

I feel someone should be embarrassed using this for a RAM story, so I'll ram the point home.

[Spazturtle]

Re: The image is a hard drive interface

That's a 2.5" SSD.

[Francis Boyle]

Re: The image is a hard drive interface

Well, they did say "hard drive interface" which is what SATA is. I haven't bought a new SATA SSD in years.

[Henry Wertz 1]

DDR3 is cheap too!

DDR3 is cheap too, REAL cheap. I got 16GB for this system (an Ivy Bridge) a year or two ago, it was $90. Now I can max it out with 32GB for $40.

[Yoshi]

Where to buy

Haven't had to buy memory etc for a while and thinking it's time to make hay. Is there consensus on the best place to buy these days? I used to just use Crucial

[DuncanLarge]

Here we go again

Why do we let them get away with it?

It's bad enough that big oil work together to keep prices high, introducing artificial scarcity without others joinging in.

It'll be the farmers next, burning potatoes to increase the price.

I work in IT, perhaps I should configure most PC's to be unbootable unless I am paid the overtime to re-ebable them every few weeks.