Who the hell is buying their server memory from Amazon?! Also, can I interest you in a $101,000 kit?
by https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/author/dave-james/ · PC Gamer
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This appeared on my X feed this morning and it's been bouncing around in my brain since I saw it. Titled as the "first $100,000 RAM kit" it caught my eye. The first thing to note is that this is, inevitably, server grade memory, and 2 TB of the stuff as well.
It's DDR5-5600 of ECC RDIMM in a 16-pack kit for precisely $101,451.99 at Amazon, for all you server engineers out there. But the question that has been burning my bonce is who is buying their server farm memory directly from Amazon? But hey, Nemix RAM has been around a while now, and if it really is offering lifetime warranty on your $100k+ purchase that ain't bad. But surely, surely, you're getting a better deal from whoever you deal with, because if you're looking after datacenter hardware you must have been getting your kit from somewhere else originally, right?
But then, I think we're probably at the point in the memory crisis where it really is any port in a storm, and people are getting memory wherever they can find it. So I guess this is just a sign of where we're at right now.
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