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Unless you've been living on Mars for the past year, it can't have escaped your notice that memory sticks and SSDs are painfully expensive right now, having risen fourfold in price in less than six months. With the AI market showing no signs of slowing its rampant consumption of DRAM and storage, you'd expect things to be getting worse every week. However, some reports are suggesting that this isn't the case, or at the very least, we're experiencing a moment of respite.

First up is an analysis of memory and storage prices by 3DCenter, covering DDR4 and DDR5, desktop and mobile DIMMs, and all kinds of internal SSDs. It suggests that while DDR5 prices are just over 400% higher than they were in July 2025, they've not changed at all in the past month, though it does depend on what capacity and speed of DRAM you're looking at.

That's not quite the case for DDR4, but overall prices still only rose by 4% between January and February, which is practically nothing compared to the consistent 30% or more it suffered in the preceding quarter. Prices for DDR4 and DDR5 laptop memory sticks (SO-DIMMs) are still climbing, though less so than before.

Source: PC Gamer