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OK I KNEW PRICES WERE BAD BUT HOLY FUCKING SHIT, THESE ARE USED FUCKING HARD DRIVES! (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 8 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I bought 2x8GB of DDR4 four years ago: ~70$.

Just looked it up and the exact same package from the exact same vendor is at 153$.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Hey chat you think this might have something to do with anything?

    (Clarifying questions indicated guided munitions use RAM that's on a totally different supply chain but i find it funny to think of the u.s. having RAM shortages because they literally blew it all up for no reason)

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I would expect "modern" guided munitions to use an absolutely tiny amount of ram by modern standards, because military hardware is often way behind consumer stuff in terms of raw computer specs. The US also makes like ten of those a year vs the absolute torrent of "ai" datacenters

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah the lying machine said basically it's different ram, made by different facilities (i.e. not in Taiwan), and it's also older and shittier for various reasons (extremely advanced chips having circuits/transistors or whatever that are so small being more vulnerable to EM interference so they use huge 20nm+ ones, and there being specific protocols on developing shit for defense technology just delaying new development)

    I just think it's funny to think there's no RAM because the U.S. literally blows it up

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Pretty much, and also there are really long planning cycles so what seemed cutting edge (at least by the standards of hardened, approved special hardware) at the start of the development is even more obsolete by the time anything actually gets built and delivered.

    The equally reductive but actually true explanation is that there's no RAM because the US literally glues it all to pieces of trash (specialized AI GPUs without display outputs)

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