I'm mostly using ECC DDR4 in Linux setups and the prices and availability are also impacted. Prices 4-5x or more compared to H1 is not unusual if you can find it.
In some cases people bought up supplies to resell on the internet at higher prices.
As the article noted, it's not just DRAM, but also NAND used in SSDs... No wonder there weren't any SSD deals during Black Friday (at least for what I was interested in). 2TB is currently selling for what I paid for 4TB as recently as August!
And I guess the trickle down is also affecting HDD prices...
I just recently built a new computer a couple months ago just as the prices were heading up, it was just under $500 for 64gb of cl28 6000mhz ddr5 ram which I already thought was expensive but now that kit is around $1000
We're also now seeing laptops from dell/lenovo (we sell them where I work) showing up with 4 and 8 gb of ram and 16gb models prices have gone up a lot.
Definitely sucks for anyone needing to buy/upgrade a computer right now and probably remain this way for the next year or more.
I'm quite happy I bought a bunch of 4TB + 8TB SSDs in November at about $319/$679 each. I was hoping to get the 8TBs at about $510 (when they were on sale earlier this year), but I suppose under $700 looks like a steal now.
MazeRunner wrote:
I'm quite happy I bought a bunch of 4TB + 8TB SSDs in November at about $319/$679 each. I was hoping to get the 8TBs at about $510 (when they were on sale earlier this year), but I suppose under $700 looks like a steal now.
The 8TBs are close to $2k now!
This is getting crazy, I wonder how high they will go? I also was bummed about the Black Friday sale for 8TB at $679 considering they were on sale in the low $500's not too long ago, but based on that sale price they have now quadrupled in price:
Unfortunately the shortages and high prices mean no 16TB M.2 for quite a while. I could kick myself for not gtting the 30.72 TB drives a few years ago. 3x30.72TB was only $10K. In 2026 a single 30.72TB drive is $6-7K, though now PCIe 5.
Is this making anyone reconsider bumping up to higher mp cameras? It seems like it's going to affect every kind of storage and memory, even older iterations (DDR4, SATA SSDs, hard drives, etc). I'm lucky to have added an additional 2TB MX500 to my machine, but that's likely to just last a year. The smaller files of my Nikon Zf should hopefully stall some of the bleeding.
It's annoying. Conventional logic would have said that decreasing storage prices tend to scale with increasing file size, to where we didn't need to worry about it. Seems like with the shift to datacenter production, this might get even worse.
I'm not seeing any higher MP cameras since the a7rIV, was that 2019?
I am reconsidering repurposing some of my PBs of drives.
Conventional wisdom is about 2-3 years before supply is closer to demand, but nobody knows. I don't use the LR so the RAM does not make so much difference. I could have used 128GB in one system, though not for the PS necessary.
EB-1 wrote:
I have quite a lot of storage in various locations, but a lot of redundancy.
Peta bytes for a personal collection is impressive.
My current server build could hold a few hundred TB raw, if full populated (truenas), but I have seriously considered moving to ceph (7-8 small nodes) if I ever outgrow it. Truth be told, I want to move to ceph anyways, just because its cool. I'm curious what you use.
I used to run FreeNAS, which I believe in some way led to TrueNAS CE. But now mostly I have regular NAS with ZFS, I think about 70+ bays in about 10 units. They are just easier to ship in size/weight and cost. Everything is 10Gb SFP+ or RJ45. I may put together a smaller number of more powerful and larger boxes if I can ever move to the final destination. I had a dream to have one full set of data internally on U.2/U.3 drives but that is far out of sight now.
