Has anyone seen the massive memory price increases ? I normally buy either Sandisk or Lexar micro SD 256GB as a sweet spot in price and capacity. Larger SSD’s to me are a bigger cost of failure and preformance. I used to pay around £24 for either, they are now around the £37 mark for the same card. I was also looking at getting a 2TB M2 SSD to rebuild my PC, a good Samsung 2TB was around £120 a few months ago and now sell at around £260. The industry experts are citing the increased demand from Data Centres. If you find a good source, let me know.
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Yup, 1Tb micro sd’s were 2/3 of the current price a few weeks/month ago.
I do keep an eye out for decent prices but, and im not trying to teach your granny how to use eggs here 
Do be aware of the amount of fakes out there. Some are only really noticeable via benchmark software.
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I don’t go bigger than 256, too much to loose
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Don’t look at DDR5 prices, they are nearly 3 times more expensive as last years prices, it’s all to do with Ai, and the need for more memory, bit like the shortage of GPU’s during lockdown and the Bitcoin farming fiasco 
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It you can sell memory to AI companies by the TB why bother with those of us who only want a few GB. Micron are shutting Crucial down to concentrate on the AI market.
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And it’s being sold to them in a custom format that’s only relevant for AI/hyperscalers, so once it’s been through the 3-5 year capex depreciation cycle that’s (probably) millions of TB of memory going straight to landfill.
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I’ve noticed this myself @Typhoon_Class I mine crypto for a bit of fun I built 3 dedicated mining rigs last year as cheaply as I possibly could for obvious reasons.
Few days ago one of my rigs packed up and after further investigation I found it to be the Nvme drive had failed I paid about £26 on amazon for the drive last year. So I attempted to re purchase the same drive only to find out that they want £65 now for the exact same drive… So subsequently I currently have a dead mining rig doing nothing because I don’t want to spend £65 on repairing it…
Nope. It was a power play by OpenAI, who bought up nearly half of the global supply of raw wafers to prevent their competitors from acquiring the DRAM they’d ultimately be turned in to. Chances are, most of those wafers will just sit in a warehouse going unused.
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I bought a Mini 4 Pro FlyMore with RC 2 last week for £400 from Cash Converters online, yes a bargain, but an even bigger one when I realised that the Mini 4 Pro was brand new and the batteries, but there was also 2 256GB SanDisk Extreme Pro’s included, bonus considering the price now for them, result 
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My curious side says to check what’s on those for anything juicy… my paranoid side says to deep format them without opening anything 
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Both new and unused, it’s weird, for Cash Converters to accept £400, how much did they pay the seller?
I once bought a laptop from an ex copper, it had loads of sex videos on it, must have been him and his wife and others, I deleted all, I felt embarrassed to hell
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Imagine how much trouble he was in when his wife found out… like the Archie Gemmill tape in Trainspotting! 
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I built a new PC for my son in October, installed a Crucial P510 2TB M.2 (2280) PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSD inc PRO SSD Cooler, was £149.99, now it’s £209.00. Just had a look at micro sd cards and I’m shocked at the prices. I’ll be searching now for offers for some spares for the drones.
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When I was a lad (Hovis advert playing in background) memory was by far the cheapest component in a PC 
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Gonna have to start calling you Dell boy !
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When I can remember a 10MB hard drive costing more than a new car .. it’s difficult to get too upset about the prices. 
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@Typhoon_Class yes I have noticed a price hike and also a shortage of stock. Stumbled across this article from Acer and sounds like it will be a while until there is a correction.
When I first started building PCs for sale in 1997, an upgrade of 4mb RAM was £250
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Around the time RAM was stolen from offices and used as currency by criminals.
The alternative form of “ram raid”.
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