RAM and HDD prices are jumping (2025)

[Sushubh]

heh yeah. i mean the repairs i got done on my phone last month... were the first time i got my own device repaired since i bought my first smartphone (nexus one iirc). i have been rather lucky with my devices. but then s21fe is the first device i have kept for more than 2 years. i used to change phone every year in early years. pixel 2 was the first phone iirc i kept for around 2 years.

 

[Kyle Crane]

man this reminds me how phone have become a running expense in our lives

 

[Kyle Crane]

@Sushubh during covid first wave i was using a passed-on device ie iPhone 7 and it had a potato battery to begin with i would need a battery replacement every year for using that device

 

[Kyle Crane]

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[Kyle Crane]

i remember thinking to sell off my old laptop ram for like 1000rs early this year
and suddenly now the adata version is for 6200rs

 

[Kyle Crane]

updated prices

 

[Kyle Crane]

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[Kyle Crane]

Kingston Warns SSD Shortage Will Get Worse in the Next 30 Days

The modern-day SSD business is divided into two main perspectives: some predict that NAND flash shortages will ease, while others speculate that the situation will worsen. Kingston belongs to the latter group, with the company's datacenter SSD business manager, Cameron Crandall, discussing this...

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[Kyle Crane]

updated prices

 

[Navjot Singh]

So here's a fun fact. OpenAI signed a deal to secure the world's 40% DRAM wafer chip output every month, which directly caused the global RAM shortage. The best part? They don't have the processing capability to turn them into actual RAM chips, so they will just look at how they hoarded raw material, which is useful to the rest of the world, but for now, useless to them.

Rumors are that OpenAI has no plans to use them. They did it just to kill the competition. So they will just sit on it. The world can't hate Sam Altman enough.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/openais-stargate-project-to-consume-up-to-40-percent-of-global-dram-output-inks-deal-with-samsung-and-sk-hynix-to-the-tune-of-up-to-900-000-wafers-per-month