Wtf ram prices?

[OnionRings]

I bought my 1 stick of 8G ddr4 a barebones stick by crucial for 21$ a few months back, its now 35 DOLLARS WHAT?! How often does ram fluctuate like this?!

[manikyath]

every time whatever country ram is made in has bad weather.

 

however racist that may sound... that was kind of the deal with hard drives for a very long time, and i'd be surprised if it wasnt the same for ram sticks.

[OnionRings]

Just now, manikyath said:

every time whatever country ram is made in has bad weather.

 

however racist that may sound... that was kind of the deal with hard drives for a very long time, and i'd be surprised if it wasnt the same for ram sticks.

Wait seriously? WEATHER effects it? Is it because of shipping procedures and stuff?

[manikyath]

Just now, OnionRings said:

Wait seriously? WEATHER effects it? Is it because of shipping procedures and stuff?

well, a specific case i refer to with the hard drives was when i got my laptop, it was made *just* before a major flood in some place in asia where appareantly a lot of hard drives were made.

 

so... just after the flood my dad needs a laptop, and his 500GB 5400RPM hard drive ended up being like twice the price of my 1TB 7200RPM hard drive...

[79wjd]

5 minutes ago, OnionRings said:

Wait seriously? WEATHER effects it? Is it because of shipping procedures and stuff?

 

3 minutes ago, manikyath said:

well, a specific case i refer to with the hard drives was when i got my laptop, it was made *just* before a major flood in some place in asia where appareantly a lot of hard drives were made.

 

so... just after the flood my dad needs a laptop, and his 500GB 5400RPM hard drive ended up being like twice the price of my 1TB 7200RPM hard drive...

Something similar happened 2-2.5 years ago at which point RAM spiked up to the point where 8gb would cost you $80~. 

 

But @OnionRings I think you just got a good deal (/sale price), I don't recall DDR3 going below $30~ for 8gb (about where it is right now). 

[OnionRings]

Just now, djdwosk97 said:

 

Something similar happened 2-2.5 years ago at which point RAM spiked up to the point where 8gb would cost you $80~. 

 

But @OnionRings I think you just got a good deal, I don't recall RAM ever going below $30 for 8gb. 

Well dam I'm lucky then sweet, I'll just have to pay the 35$ to get a second stick though I guess, cheaper then buying a whole new kit.

[AlwaysFSX]

5 minutes ago, manikyath said:

every time whatever country ram is made in has bad weather.

 

however racist that may sound... that was kind of the deal with hard drives for a very long time, and i'd be surprised if it wasnt the same for ram sticks.

That's about it, good weather for a while and ram prices drop. You get a month of bad weather and they skyrocket again.

[JefferyD90]

6 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

 

Something similar happened 2-2.5 years ago at which point RAM spiked up to the point where 8gb would cost you $80~. 

 

But @OnionRings I think you just got a good deal (/sale price), I don't recall DDR3 going below $30~ for 8gb (about where it is right now). 

This was the Hynix fire in Germany.  It was actually about a year and a half ago.

[suchamoneypit]

heh... I paid like $180 for my DDR4 RAM because it was so new when I got it..

[79wjd]

21 minutes ago, JefferyD90 said:

This was the Hynix fire in Germany.  It was actually about a year and a half ago.

Then there was something before that. When I built my computer in June 2014 8gb of RAM was $85. 

 

Edit: The fire occured October 2013: http://www.channelweb.co.uk/crn-uk/news/2298475/capacity-slide-confirmed-on-back-of-hynix-memory-fire 

So just shy of three years ago

[SpaceGhostC2C]

21 minutes ago, AlwaysFSX said:

That's about it, good weather for a while and ram prices drop. You get a month of bad weather and they skyrocket again.

God bless our modern, non-agrarian economy  

 

I remember buying similar DDR3 RAM, always in 2 sticks. 2012-13: 8GB, €40. Frist half 2015: 16GB, €125. Now: 16GB, €70-80 and falling (hello DDR4).

And yes, of course, you guessed correctly the timing of my last new purchase...

[OnionRings]

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam

[JefferyD90]

13 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

Then there was something before that. When I built my computer in June 2014 8gb of RAM was $85. 

 

Edit: The fire occured October 2013: http://www.channelweb.co.uk/crn-uk/news/2298475/capacity-slide-confirmed-on-back-of-hynix-memory-fire 

So just shy of three years ago

Damn, I didn't think it was that long ago...  I just remembered it happened.

[AlwaysFSX]

35 minutes ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

God bless our modern, non-agrarian economy  

 

I remember buying similar DDR3 RAM, always in 2 sticks. 2012-13: 8GB, €40. Frist half 2015: 16GB, €125. Now: 16GB, €70-80 and falling (hello DDR4).

And yes, of course, you guessed correctly the timing of my last new purchase...

I was happy when I got an 8 gig kit for $45, back when prices stopped bouncing between $80-100.

[shining]

I've paid around $300 for 16 MB RAM (MEGAbytes!) for my P75 CPU (back in '95 I believe).
Don't think it had anything to do with nature disaster though