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Skyrocketing memory prices ...

may get worse before getting better

The price increases began around mid-2016, as Newegg Business noted in a blog post in August. PCPartPicker's memory price trend page indeed shows the cost of all types of RAM surging upward since May or so. The reason at the time was that the big money was in producing DRAM for mobile devices, followed by servers, and then finally desktops.

http://tinyurl.com/y9snz88h

The above article was dated: JAN 30, 2017 8:28 AM PT

That's over 7.5 months ago!

What you need to consider is that (because of the new 3D memory) SSDs are replacing many spinning drives in the cloud. It's a good thing that WDC (a spinning drive manufacturer) bought (is trying to buy) a solid state drive manufacturer (Toshiba chip unit).

Well, if they don't get Toshiba, at least they already got SanDisk.

Note: PCPartPicker was linked in my last post.