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Samsung Raises DRAM Prices Another ~30% for Q2 2026

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My home pc has 4x8gb ddr4 sticks that I bought years ago. I fully intend to let them sit in there for years to come.

DDR4lyfe is my new motto.

Fr. I'm selling a matched pair of 48 GiB DDR5 non-ECC 5600 SO-DIMM sticks on secondary markets for $1100. I'm not touching DDR5 again for the foreseeable future, not for 5 years or more. My last foray was 4x 64 GiB 6000 ECC UDIMMs for 2 Ryzen 9 boxes. (Holy shit, that ram is worth $5500 now. It's more than the entire system cost originally including GPUs.)

I'm interested in building a Ryzen 9 box with ECC UDIMMs, but only 2 sticks due to reported stability issues with 4. Did it work well? Would you recommend it? (I would only be running Linux).

Read again. It may seem slightly ambiguous, but there's only 2 in each.

I bought 32 GiB (4x 8 GiB) DDR3 2100 sticks recently for $30 each for a Xeon E3-1275 V2 box.

My main virtualization home lab / vNAS is 512 GiB (16x 32 GiB) DDR4 ECC 3200 I bought 5 years ago. I don't have any need to have or buy more. (Although I had to buy 1 stick last year after a craptastic, used, defective EPYC 7742 burned it out and I went back dual 7402's.)

The numbers don't seem to add up at first glance—Samsung hikes Q2 contracts by 30% while China's spot market is seeing 10-20% fire sales.

It could be that the contract price for Samgsung is still below the spot price - it's just the packagers/resellers/distributors are currently pocketing the difference rather than Samsung.

Capitalism's version of rationing is a game only the rich can afford to play.

When retail gamers accept manufactured and/or real scarcity competing with financialized irrational exuberance of billionaires sucking up DRAM and GPUs, it's best to wait on the sidelines.

You eat silicon?

> Sentiment Swings Amplify Volatility

Slop.

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