Samsung Raises DRAM Prices Another ~30% for Q2 2026(old.reddit.com)

41 pointsby jeffufl8 hours ago4 comments

kubb6 hours ago
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.
- sethops15 hours ago
  DDR4lyfe is my new motto.
  - burnt-resistor3 hours ago
    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.)
    eggsome2 hours ago
    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).
- burnt-resistor3 hours ago
  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.)
jeffufl8 hours ago
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.
- kimixa6 hours ago
  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.
burnt-resistor3 hours ago
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.
justsomehnguy6 hours ago
> Sentiment Swings Amplify Volatility
Slop.