And those of us with servers pray every day a stick won’t fail. But at least people can talk to robots and make slop on demand…
My NAS is starting to act up and I have no idea what I’m going to do. I’ve got it all backed up but it’s basically deep cold storage (hard drive at a friend’s house in a different state). When it goes I’m cooked.
Yeah a drive failure is my biggest worry now. 12TB drives aren’t cheap. Luckily I got an extra when prices started going up as a warm backup.
I have a backup R740 that I got in case I needed the extra capacity. It’s my donor now, or could be my retirement plan since it has 256GB in it.
This must be what it feels like to have bought a house in the 1970s
People who built 32+gb ram systems in 2026:
256 GB DDR4 here, kinda considering selling some of it now…
Your RAM accidentally became a retirement fund.
Wow, what’d you get all that for? Opening 5+ Chrome tabs?
The pc (server) was used, and the seller asked 100$ to double it from 128 GB to 256 GB.
More space for CFD and path tracing, and for personnal projects. Also it’s fun to install games to a ramdisk for a laugh.
…and to finally install all the Cities Skylines and Rimworld mods.
I’ll bet the seller is kicking themselves right about now for that.
Bought 128 gb DDR4 and a 7900 XT… that system quite literally sits in my basement as my main driver is a Linux laptop with an external monitor. So busy with work and school that gaming took a backseat.
I can take it off your hands if you wanna clear up some space in your basement 😃
Dont tell me you also brought storage while it was cheap. At least lie and say you got cooked on that.
I definitely failed on that end. Lol. I got like two 1tb nvme’s before prices went mad and I stupidly decided to build a media server. That’s another machine that currently sits unused… Mostly because it’s empty. Lol. One nvme is in my laptop. The other went to my daughter.
I bought a 22 tb drive the very day that dumb orangutan first threatened tarrifs. The price has more than doubled since then.
You can just about store every season of the Simpsons on that thing.
I have three 32gb ddr5 PCs, trying to sell one for $600 but crypto bros keep offering $350 because “Chatgpt said so”
Price is 900 for mentioning ai
This reminds me of the screenshot where ChatGPT doubted a parts list the user gave it, because the RAM cost more than the CPU.
Grieve with me, I just lost a ram stick so it’s down to 24. Possibly less depending on my Asrock’s ability to manage 3 instead of 2 pairs
Fuck me, I just got my friend’s ASRock Z97 Extreme 4. Does it not handle pairs well?
No no pairs are good, using a ram without its store bought pair is bad. I don’t know enough about ASRock boards to give a specific answer but Ram that’s sold in pairs generally doesn’t work as well individually because modern boards apparently divide work between them in specific ways.
I need to read about how our boards (mine’s b550m) work regarding that but I’ll dm you whatever I find
Just decided to reply in case anyone else doesn’t know. Tom’s Hardware and a few different mb manufacturer websites say motherboards opt for Dual Channel ram management, if you have an uneven number it will still use them all on a single channel mode which is slower but not as badly as if you had mixed RAM parts
64Gb gang shout out!
Edit: Its now an investment!
I live in fear one of the memories will stop working
I’ve lost a lot more than one.
I can’t quite figure out the timeline of the jobs I’ve had. Memories of things that happened on those jobs don’t line up with when I think I was on the jobs. I feel like I have the order all mixed up.
Recently, I was trying to remember the name of one of my old girlfriends. I can picture her clearly, but her name is gone. It will probably come to me at some point.
This is shit you think about when you get old. If you want to remember these things, start a journal, and keep it. You think you can’t possibly forget, but you do.
(Yeah, I know you meant memory sticks.)
64GB DDR5 and a Rx 7800 xt and 2TB m.2 for less than 1k before windows cut off win10 support. I use it for streaming and factorio and arch isos
My friend who built 128GB home server in 2024.
Yeah… I built my wife a machine with 64 GB of RAM in ~October of 25 right before the prices spiked. Really kicking myself for not going all in and building a NAS setup at that same time. I can’t realistically bring myself to purchase 4tb hard drives or ram at this point - it’s too damn expensive.
(She’s running fedora silver blue)
I really want to go in for a nas, but fuck… I guess I’ll get by with my motley collection of external hard drives…
I built a nas and bought my wife a 64gb laptop eoy 2025. considereing myself lucky.
must have picked up like 6 4tb nvme drives and bunch of rust drivesI got 32tb like a month before shit started blowing up. I didn’t really need it at the time but the price was good so I jumped on it. So glad I did.
Yeah…recently wanted to replace my aging 8TB drives in the server. Thought I’d probably get twice as much for the same price or the same way cheaper. Boy was I wrong and sad
128GB DDR4 3080TI rig from 2022 still going strong, I feel I timed this well.
Decommissioned VM host my company was getting ready to toss out.
It’s all DDR4, but even that shit is expensive now.
