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Valve describes just how brutal RAM negotiations are in 2026
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My question is: how far back in time do we have to go to get to where RAM and SSD prices were this high (for a given capacity) in the past? Like 2021?
Bought a 256GB ssd for like 320€ in around 2011 (maybe 2012) so there's that.
Yeah, over the years I tend to spend about $200 on storage when I buy - it's just that the storage has been getting bigger and bigger for that price over the decades.
Totally, and cheaper, well I guess my 3TB, 4TB (under 100€ each) and finally 2TB SSD (200€?) will be the last for a long time lol!
Shouldn't China have compatible production lines ready in two or three years?
Hard to know how all that will be playing out, a lot of the recent craziness has been a great excuse for China and other places to ramp up production to address loss-of-supply issues.
If we look at this on the basis of "how much does it cost to put a typical amount of RAM and storage in your computer?" then I bet we'd be going all the way back to the 90s.
Like seriously.
Much longer than that. There was a spike in 2021 that brought high end 2x8gb ddr4 kits to about $180-200 but that's still significantly less than what you pay for decent ddr5 now. I think you'd have to look to back to early DDR3 or even further to DDR2 prices to get higher per gb amounts.
SSD prices were this high briefly (2-3 months) mid-2021. Before that you'd have to look all the way back to times where 1tb was the largest consumer grade SSD you could buy
On the DDR4 RAM front, it looks like pre-2019 is where RAM was higher than it is today, in (broad market measured) inflation adjusted dollars.