DDR5

The dataset is a revival: the long-defunct McCallum/jcmit price archive, pulled off the Internet Archive and extended past mid-2024 with Amazon pricing. Prices are nominal, not inflation-adjusted.

Commenters split on whether the chart even means anything: '$/GB is a totally useless unit' when 1960s machines shipped with kilobytes, says one. Another notes the log scale flatters the recent spike, and a third faults it for never marking the DRAM cartel years.

The CPX42 cloud tier jumped from €25.49 to €69.49 — a 2.7x increase that landed the morning it took effect. Existing machines are grandfathered; rescale one and you pay the new rate.

The thread's consensus isn't outrage at Hetzner so much as recognition: a cloud-infrastructure founder and several engineers traced it straight to the global RAM and storage shortage that's been squeezing everyone building hardware this year.