A user bought 1 TB of RAM for about $1,400. A few months later, to his surprise, the hardware is worth $10,000. He had wanted to sell it much earlier, but simply forgot about it.
A user reports on Reddit that his father bought new RAM and SSD storage for his server PC a few months ago. This was still before the great RAM shortage, when RAM could still be bought relatively cheaply.
For 1 TB of RAM and about 20 TB of SSD storage, he paid between $1,400 and $1,500 at the time. That is about €1,200. Today, amid the AI boom and RAM shortage, the purchased hardware is worth over $10,000, which is about €8,500.
The twist in the story: The son admits that they actually wanted to sell the RAM right after the purchase, but somehow forgot about the whole thing. He only randomly remembered that they had bought a box of RAM because his father was complaining about the high RAM prices:
Yes, and the crazy thing is that we wanted to sell it right after buying the 1 TB of RAM, but then we forgot until I randomly remembered that we had RAM.
Many users in the community are impressed. After all, as one person explains, that is a 10-fold increase in value simply by owning RAM.
Registered modules typically do not work with regular gaming PCs
Is there a disadvantage to this? The RAM modules are said to be registered modules (RDIMMs) equipped with additional features like ECC for servers. ECC stands for Error Correction Code, which is a feature that should detect and correct data bit errors during operation (via storage-insider.de).
In most cases, these registered modules do not work with the regular motherboards that gamers have in their gaming PCs. Typically, UDIMM RAM, or unbuffered RAM, is used in gaming PCs.
However, if your processor and motherboard in the computer support features like ECC, then you can use such RAM with ECC. Typically, these are expensive server CPUs like Intel Xeon and certain AMD EPYC or “Ryzen PRO” models.
RAM is getting more expensive. A user has now built his own RAM and saved quite a bit of money. Nevertheless, building it oneself is only conditionally recommended, as a lot of skill is required to rebuild such RAM: A developer saves €140 by simply building his own RAM
