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You could get a 990pro 2 terabyte Samsung SSD for €150 just last year. Memory had become a commodity product.

Memory is still a commodity product, in that there isn't a huge amount of difference between vendors selling products that comply with a certain technical standard. Sometimes the prices of commodities (wheat, silver, crude oil, etc) go way up when supply and demand get out of balance.

I did buy one of those for 155eur on 9 November 2025.

Very lucky me!

I'm still flying under the radar with a Dell Precision T5820. 128GB of DDR4 and a Quadro P4000 graphics card (8gb). Handles everything I need it to do including photo/video editing, and some random FPS games without any issues.

I was thinking of upgrading the video card to something better, but looking at the cost of replacing that Quadro? I might just stay put for now. Costs on those have also pretty much doubled.

I put together a new PC last year and got some extra memory, because why not. Crazy how much that would cost me today.