<p dir="ltr">DDR2 is no longer in production so it's price will only go up.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 23, 2013 1:21 PM, "Derek Atkins" <<a href="mailto:warlord@mit.edu">warlord@mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
It's currently got DDR2 667 ECC Registered RAM. The machine has 8<br>
sticks of 2GB RAM. Alas, this means it's full, so I'd have to remove<br>
some of that RAM to put in new sticks. :(<br>
<br>
It's a SuperMicro H8DA3-2 based system that I bought in January 2009.<br>
<br>
-derek<br>
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Calvin Harrigan <<a href="mailto:charriglists@bellsouth.net">charriglists@bellsouth.net</a>> writes:<br>
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> I'll hazard a guess and say yes, it's just crucial. Could it be<br>
> because it's DDR1 or DDR2?<br>
> That density isn't very common, at least at the consumer level. I<br>
> found 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 RAM<br>
>> (on <a href="http://crucial.com" target="_blank">crucial.com</a>, where I've always had good luck) I found 16GB (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 but<br>
>> I thought that those factories had come back online. So why is RAM 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>
><br>
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