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

[Scott Castaline]

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My past experience was that buying directly from the mfg you
potentially pay more that at a re-seller. There used to be a time
where the manufacturer would sell at full retail as they didn't want
to shoot themselves in the foot and undersell their own volume
customers, the re-sellers and distributors.

Scott C.


On 04/23/2013 01:31 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> FTR, I was wrong.  The 16GB (2x8G) from Crucial is $740, not $400. 
> Sorry, I was off by nearly 50%..
> 
> The system takes DDR2-667 (PC2-5300) ECC Registered SDRAM.
> 
> Newegg only seems to have a few options for this type of RAM, but
> the largest sticks they have are 4GB sticks: Kingston at $130, or
> Crucial at $244 for a pair (8GB).  Strangely, Crucial's price for
> that same 2x4GB is $300.
> 
> :-/
> 
> -derek
> 
> Calvin Harrigan <charriglists at bellsouth.net> writes:
> 
>> 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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