Old RAM has become valuable. So valuable that some users are now even climbing into dumpsters to salvage old PCs.
He himself explained in a post on Reddit that his boss had bought a company and was going to throw away the old hardware of the company. However, it seems that the boss was not aware of what he was throwing away.
The user stated that he himself climbed into the dumpster and pulled the SSDs and RAM sticks from the computers. In total, he rescued almost 20 RAM sticks from the computers and a little more than half a dozen M.2 SSDs. The M.2 SSDs, he writes in another post, are not that exciting since their capacity ranges between 240 and 500 GB.
Old hardware has suddenly become much more valuable in times of scarcity
Old hardware has been growing in popularity for months, as prices have risen significantly. Meanwhile, prices for older DDR4 RAM are also rising sharply: Where prices for 16 GB DDR4 were between 50 and 60 euros, you now pay around 150 euros (via Geizhals.de).
Nevertheless, it is often cheaper to upgrade within a generation: A new GPU or processor is cheaper than having to change the motherboard and RAM on top of it.
Moreover, the demand for hardware is greater than expected. So great, that large quantities of DDR3 RAM are now being sold again in some countries – hardware that is completely outdated from today’s perspective. But this shows that people are becoming inventive to bypass the scarcity and high prices.
Some users now accuse large companies of artificially creating the scarcity: Because the warehouses of many sellers are full, yet the prices are kept high.
It is not unusual for seemingly obsolete hardware to end up in the trash at some point. In one case, a user also rescued RAM from the dumpster. Today, the hardware is very valuable, at least if you can do something with it: Two years ago, he rescued 2,304 GB of RAM from the dumpster: Today the hardware is priceless, but useless to him
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