<div dir="ltr">When i have been using PriceWatch (<a href="http://www.pricewatch.com/">http://www.pricewatch.com/</a> ) to find the best pricing on parts. <div><br></div><div style>Pointless advice ahead:</div><div>As i warn myself all the time, temper your want for a good deal with how much you truest the seller.</div>
<div><br></div><div style>thanks,</div><div style>Allan</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com" target="_blank">atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Crucial is good. Kingston, Patriot, and Corsair are good brands too as far as I know. I really like Corsair stuff. Pricing on these might be different.<br>
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Calvin Harrigan <<a href="mailto:charriglists@bellsouth.net">charriglists@bellsouth.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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>I'll hazard a guess and say yes, it's just crucial. Could it be<br>
>because<br>
>it's DDR1 or DDR2?<br>
>That density isn't very common, at least at the consumer level. I<br>
>found<br>
>a set of G.SKILL for about 100.<br>
><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231486" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231486</a><br>
>There are dozens of other options.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
>On 4/23/2013 12:37 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:<br>
>> Hey Alers,<br>
>><br>
>> I was looking at buying some RAM for my 3+-year-old server to try to<br>
>> give it a boost over its current 16GB. But when I was searching for<br>
>RAM<br>
>> (on <a href="http://crucial.com" target="_blank">crucial.com</a>, where I've always had good luck) I found 16GB<br>
>(2x8GB)<br>
>> but it cost almost $400!<br>
>><br>
>> What's up with that? I was seriously expecting half that, or less.<br>
>><br>
>> I know there were the floods in Thailand and such a couple years ago<br>
>but<br>
>> I thought that those factories had come back online. So why is RAM<br>
>so<br>
>> freaking expensive? It feels like chips are 2x or 3x (or more!) what<br>
>> they were a year or two ago.<br>
>><br>
>> Is it just crucial? Maybe there is a better/less-expensive source?<br>
>><br>
>> -derek<br>
>><br>
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