[ale] Why is RAM is so expensive?!? Anyone know an inexpensive source?

Ron Frazier (ALE) atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com
Tue Apr 23 13:43:35 EDT 2013


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.

Ron


Calvin Harrigan <charriglists at bellsouth.net> wrote:

>I'll hazard a guess and say yes, it's just crucial.  Could it be
>because 
>it's DDR1 or DDR2?
>That density isn't very common, at least at the consumer level.  I
>found 
>a set of G.SKILL for about 100.
>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231486
>There are dozens of other options.
>
>
>
>On 4/23/2013 12:37 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Hey Alers,
>>
>> I was looking at buying some RAM for my 3+-year-old server to try to
>> give it a boost over its current 16GB.  But when I was searching for
>RAM
>> (on crucial.com, where I've always had good luck) I found 16GB
>(2x8GB)
>> but it cost almost $400!
>>
>> What's up with that?  I was seriously expecting half that, or less.
>>
>> I know there were the floods in Thailand and such a couple years ago
>but
>> I thought that those factories had come back online.  So why is RAM
>so
>> freaking expensive?  It feels like chips are 2x or 3x (or more!) what
>> they were a year or two ago.
>>
>> Is it just crucial?  Maybe there is a better/less-expensive source?
>>
>> -derek
>>
>
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