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Looks like RAM prices will be going up again.

 

Their fault for a not so well designed battery backup?

Good thing I never buy Toshiba products.

 

Are you sure ? They are a major player and their stuff is in a lot of things. Would you happen to know if your say router has some Toshiba flash ?

 

Well I meant the branded ones..lol

Imagine if North Korea invaded the South and bombed Samsung and Hynix..

 

Dear god make sure that neve hapens

 

Toshiba sells their memory chips to many other companies who use the chips for their products, so I'd bet money that you have multiple Toshiba chips.

Most articles I've read about that incident, though, say that outage won't significantly impact total memory chip supply, especially since there's a large stockpile already. I'd imagine prices will stay roughly the same as they are now (although, 2x4GB sticks are ridiculously cheap at the moment).

 

What ? I think you have watched too many news.

 

Tiller, you should know better.

Nobody here knows what they are talking about. AFAIK Toshiba does not make DRAM. On top of that, the article said this happened to a NAND factory. NAND is used for flash memory. This has absolutely nothing to do with RAM!!!!

Here you can see the products this impacts:
http://www.toshiba.com/taec/Catalog/Family.do?familyid=7

I guarantee it won't affect the price.

 

Hrm I believe the new Macbook Air uses Toshiba mini PCI-E SSD...ruh roh raggy!

 

IMHO RAM prices may go above due to a) growing demand and b) rising commodity prices.

If it goes up this time then it's because of B I reckon. All commodity prices have gone up tremendously over the past 12 months and also IMHO, will continue to go up somewhat more due to China's recent decision not to increase interest rates despite growing inflation. The weak dollar isn't helping either and the EU situation with Ireland and likely Portugal only helps increase commodity prices higher.

So all in all I wouldn't be surprised if RAM prices go up. Naturally time will tell.

 

DDR2 RAM was UBER cheap. I'm talking about 2 x 2 GB SODIMM for like 40 bucks, 4 GB DDR2 desktop RAM for 25 after MIR. Then it slowly starting rising while DDR3 dropped (to be expected as it is the new standard). So hoard RAM while you can!!!!

 

That might open up a whole new meaning

Hoard as in invest in memory when the price is low, wait for it to increase and resell the memory with profit Why not? Same with wine, stocks, commodities, hand-made goods etc.

Computer memory is about the only hardware component for which its price can go up over time. All other components decrease in value within weeks if not months.

If 1999 is anything to go by some nice profit from investing in memory can be made

 

I still got some RDRAM and SDRAM stashed away somewhere..

 

There are markets(just like stock/currency etc.) for trading these things but that is not for us where the transaction cost is way to high(both buying and selling), they are the playground for very big players like Dell etc.

The best we can do is to make a few bucks here and there when there is real steal.

 

Ah, so you like them RIMMs.

 

Good thing I cashed in on some RAM last week

 

Again, this will have no effect on RAM prices since the factory was not producing RAM.

 

Buy! Buy! Buy! I should buy my 16GB or RAM soon.. Kingston Hyper X that is... before RAM prices go crazy! I knew about this but very stupid toshiba.. they could have prevented it.

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