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July 2024 purchased 128 GB DDR5 RAM for my home server: $450.

December 2025 quoted 64 GB DDR5 RAM for a possible new home server: $550.

RAM prices have skyrocketed, and M.5 and SATA SSDs are drying up as well. Hope y’all’s computers are where you want them, because component costs aren’t going to come down anytime soon.

RAM prices have skyrocketed, and M.5 and SATA SSDs are drying up as well. Hope y’all’s computers are where you want them, because component costs aren’t going to come down anytime soon.

I have been in IT long enough that I have seen these price fluctuations, especially in memory and processors go up during a tech change or some other squeeze on supply. It returns again. I remember a SIMM memory spike in the early 90s as systems were going from pluggable chips. I remember a har drive price spike when one of the big manufacturers (WD?) had an explosion. And of course there is the ongoing shortage of high-end graphics chips.

It wasn't so long ago when there wasn't an nVidia, and shorter still when they were a smaller operator, dwarfed by players like AMD, ATI, Matrox. Now they are one of the largest companies in the world.

People who want the highest performance and capacity in memory will pay more. They always have. Mainstream memory will level off, especially as more manufacturing returns stateside.