In case you’re wondering how screwed the SSD and broader storage market is:

Just last week, I bought 5 8TB WD Red Pro NAS drives on Amazon to be delivered the following week. Amazon limited me to 3 hard drives, even across multiple orders, so I used my coworker’s account to buy 2 more. I couldn’t find any other high-TBW CMR 8TB hard drives anywhere else, no matter the brand or retailer.

Less than a week later, and now Amazon says “available to ship in 1-2 days”, but “fastest delivery July 21-31”. That’s 18 WEEKS! 4 MONTHS!

Hope none of y’all were planning to buy new hard drives any time soon.

#RAMpocalypse #tech #selfhosted #selfhosting #sysadmin

An Intel Socket LGA1700 motherboard by Asrock for the RAMpocolypse, with both DDR4 and DDR5 DIMM slots 😵‍💫

https://asrock.com/MB/Intel/H610M%20COMBO%20II/

#RAMpocalypse #DDR4 #DDR5 #PCComponents #PCBuilding

I just read another web article and watched another YouTube video about the new MacBook Neo, complaining how 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD aren't big enough to handle anything but basic tasks...

Oh, please. Here's my Mac desktop from 2007. I felt like a king back in the day! 😉

#MacBook #Apple #MacBookNeo #RAMpocalypse #Tech #Gaming

Memory Shortage to Grip PC Market Well Into 2027, IDC Warns

#RAMpocalypse #Semiconductors #TechMarkets #AusNews

https://thedailyperspective.org/article/2026-03-12-memory-shortage-to-grip-pc-market-well-into-2027-idc-warns-44336e9d

FTWCA EEPROM versions etc. it seems new #Raspberry Pi Compute Modules are getting built differently and new ones will only boot with a recent EEPROM. If you enforce some EEPROM version(s) in your product supply chain, manufacturing and/or first boot procedures, it's time to prepare for alternative versions (or upgrade all the things©®™).

#RAMpocalypse

Word to the wise.

Invest in a recently-off-lease workstation barebones (or CPU+RAM+disk) computer, with an OS that will NOT be chained to some dumbass, clueless board member, forcing LLM stuff for their immediate gain, leaving everyone stranded later.

Just sayin'.

#LLM #ai #microslop #RAMpocalypse #RAMaggedon

In Q1 2026, Samsung Electronics finalized DRAM contracts with price increases exceeding 100%—a dramatic escalation from the 70% projection just weeks earlier. Even Apple Inc. reportedly accepted the hike to secure LPDDR5X supply for its upcoming devices.

The driver is clear: AI infrastructure.

Hyperscalers such as NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Google are absorbing wafer capacity for HBM production, creating a structural shortage of conventional DRAM and NAND. Analysts at Gartner and IDC project AI data centers could consume up to 70% of high-end DRAM output in 2026.

The 2026 “Rampocalypse” is not cyclical—it is structural. When memory pricing doubles, hardware economics reset across the digital economy.

https://www.buysellram.com/blog/samsungs-100-dram-price-hike-and-why-even-apple-had-to-pay-up/

#DRAM #MemoryMarket #AIInfrastructure #HBM #DDR4 #Semiconductor #DataCenter #SupplyChain #DDR5 #Samsung #Apple #RAMMarket #MemoryShortage2026 #Rampocalypse #TechInflation #ITAM #technology