With a scarcity of RAM and NVMe drives on the market, it certainly feels like the collapse of personal computing is approaching us. Some companies are stockpiling these crucial (RIP) components for datacenters still in early planning stages, which would entail these components being outdated by the time they were actually put in use. Facts and stories like these have me believing there are few individuals or organizations are pulling the strings in the background, intent on ending personal computing and forcing the general population to rely on the cloud for all of their needs.
I hope I’m wrong, but I love a good conspiracy theory.
The RAM shortage isn’t going away anytime soon, and I need RAM for my projects, so I built a personal tracker that monitors pricing across a few online retailers. It was working fairly well, so I fleshed it out in to a full-blown website so everyone can benefit. Enter RAMList.com
RAMList.com scans the inventories of included marketplaces a few times a day or week depending on API restrictions and catalog updates, ensuring the prices are fresh. There are a number of filters available to narrow the product list, and we’re tracking overall prices across the market to help show when an ideal time to make a purchase may be.
I’m adding more marketplaces as I can, and may expand this beyond RAM if it catches on.