Why the price of RAM is shooting up like crazy

[Retro]

If you need to buy memory for your PC, you'll notice that the price has increased dramatically since October 2025, waaay more than general inflation, making a decent amount of RAM unaffordable for many.

I bought the massive 128GB for my PC as 4 x 32GB DDR5 5600MHz modules back in November 2024 for my PC upgrade where it cost me around £230, a decent price for that amount. The same amount is now an outrageous £1300 or so, about 5.5 times more expensive, just check the price of the modules below. These are not the ones I bought, just examples with the same spec, but the cost is about the same.

You can check the current price of the modules below at SCAN.



For a more normal 32GB RAM, it used to cost around £63, but is now around £210. I'd consider this much nowadays to carry your PC for the next few years with increasing demands made on it, even if 16GB seems ok now. That's a significant expense when pricing up a build.

This BBC article explains why this hyperinflation has hit memory modules and general computer equipment that has memory embedded in it. It's not clear when prices will drop back down either, but you can be sure it won't be down to pre October levels due to general inflation.

The cost of lots of the devices we all use could be forced up in 2026 because the price of Ram - once one of the cheapest computer components - has more than doubled since October 2025.

The tech powers everything from smartphones to smart TVs, as well as things like medical devices.

Its price has shot up because of the explosive growth in the data centres which power AI, which need Ram too.

That's caused an imbalance between supply and demand which means everyone has to pay more.

Why everything from your phone to your PC may get pricier in 2026

The price of Ram - once one of the cheapest computer parts - has more than doubled since October 2025.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Tiffany]

My daughter asked for an 8TB SSD for Christmas. The price has already increased over $100. Her and her fiancé started ramping up their storage collection to prepare for memory storage Armageddon. I hope at some point the prices will stabilize and we all don't have to freak out that by 2030, you will own nothing including your own PC.

 

[Hitcore]

@Tiffany incredibly based and redpilled post.
Prepping for memory storage Armageddon is absolutely something more people should do. And fill those suckers up with footage, documentaries, encyclopedias, anything that capsulates life and knowledge as we know it today... because a lot of things are to get memoryholed, and they'll gaslight you into that things never happened.

and we all don't have to freak out that by 2030, you will own nothing including your own PC.

>you vill own notzink und you vill rent ze thin client

 

[live627]

So... build a homelab?

 

[Tiffany]

@Tiffany incredibly based and redpilled post.
Prepping for memory storage Armageddon is absolutely something more people should do. And fill those suckers up with footage, documentaries, encyclopedias, anything that capsulates life and knowledge as we know it today... because a lot of things are to get memoryholed, and they'll gaslight you into that things never happened.



>you vill own notzink und you vill rent ze thin client

Agreed, and yes, there's a lot of red pilling that goes on in life if you take the filter off and you have to pay attention to what's not being said too.

 

[live627]

This will increase the price of virtually all electronics. And it spills into other industries too; our energy bills are higher.

 

[Mort]

Basically it's down to demand due to AI bollocks.

 

[Astro What]

Didn't help with Micron getting out of the consumer business environment. They are targeting AI infrastructure & data center needs primarily now.
The Crucial consumer offering(s) are being shut down. I recently purchased several NVMe drives for my OWC enclosure and the price of the drives had jumped noticeably. I've found Crucial SSD drives to be some of the better offering for the price.

 

[Retro]

My 128GB RAM is made Crucial, too. Nice, plain black styling without any distracting lighting and they fit nicely under my large Noctua NH-D15 G2 cooler. Huge shame it's completely unaffordable now, regardless of brand.

That Crucial memory:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C79H54TQ

Other brands of SSD have jumped in price too, including the cheap Patriot that I bought at the same time.

 

[Hitcore]

Huge shame it's completely unaffordable now, regardless of brand.

Due to my locale, the prices on Amazon are displayed in DKK (Danish Kroner). Some RAM kits will set you back DKK 7,000~8,000. Bloody hell. You could buy the electric moped I got for that here.

 

[Retro]

That's a good comparison Hitcore, helps to get over the enormity of this RAM price inflation.