Price of RAM and SSDs.

I was browsing RAM and SSDs. The prices are ridiculous £300 odd for 32gb DDR5 and £200 odd for DDR4 32gb. SSDs are going the same way with 2tb around £200 which I would regard as entry level. NVME or SATA are around the same price with NAND in short supply.

Current predictions are that RAM and NAND supplies wont steady until 2028 but can imagine high prices for a while yet. Will have to stretch my i5 9400F/DDR4 32gb out for a bit yet. Although a decent deal of an Ultra 5 Core /DDR5 16gb bundle can be picked up for around £340 on Novatech and with a case £540 no OS.

Windows Central Linky

Perhaps a boycott of these resource-hungry AI engines would be a positive step.

Don't use them apart from Brave AI to ask Linux questions.

In reply to a post by TinyMongomery:

Perhaps a boycott of these resource-hungry AI engines would be a positive step.

Only if you can get companies to stop using and buying licences. Home users are insignificant.

Indeed looks like a shortage of PCs over the next few years.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

In reply to a post by TinyMongomery:

Perhaps a boycott of these resource-hungry AI engines would be a positive step.

Only if you can get companies to stop using and buying licences. Home users are insignificant.

this will affect everything, from home users, to schools to large corps. We will see saturation of ai companies so the demain on wafers in that respect should lessen, but when. And of course for those who have not prebooked stuff, will they exit the ai market.

Also we should see more wafter capacity industry wide - again when is the Q.

We've had these before and Crucial/Micron shifting strategy will make it worse. We buy RAM/SSDs in larger quantities for servers and it's a killer..
The industry is not competitive enough.
seb

AI has its place but its frustrating how every company forces it on you and you cant disable it

Sooner it dies, and it will, the better

bobble_bob,

Unless it becomes sentient and decides that we are not worth keeping alive!!!! A certain president might start WWIII but it might be AI that decides to get rid of us all including that numbskull of a president!!!