{"id":3508,"date":"2014-06-20T10:44:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T15:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2014-06-20T10:44:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T15:44:47","slug":"why-did-ram-prices-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=3508","title":{"rendered":"Why did RAM prices double?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago I bought a pair of 8GB DDR3-1600 sticks for $86. Now, they&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B006EWUO22\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B006EWUO22&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=gucaante-20&#038;linkId=CPDKT6UPVTJFCXRW\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B006EWUO22\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B006EWUO22&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=gucaante-20&#038;linkId=CPDKT6UPVTJFCXRW\">$155<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B006EWUO22\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B006EWUO22&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=gucaante-20&#038;linkId=CPDKT6UPVTJFCXRW\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=gucaante-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B006EWUO22\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not like DDR4 and DDR5 came out, and now I&#8217;m looking for stuff that&#8217;s no longer manufactured. What happened?<\/p>\n<p>(Hard drive prices are still higher than when I bought my last pair of 2tb drives, but there was a natural disaster that wiped out most of the factories. That I understand. This baffles me.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago I bought a pair of 8GB DDR3-1600 sticks for $86. Now, they&#8217;re $155. It&#8217;s not like DDR4 and DDR5 came out, and now I&#8217;m looking for stuff that&#8217;s no longer manufactured. What happened? (Hard drive prices are still higher than when I bought my last pair of 2tb drives, but there was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}