> Crucial.com just went out of business

What in fuq for? They weren't making enough of a fortune on the ridiculous ai bubble?

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What in fuq for? They weren't making enough of a fortune on the ridiculous ai bubble?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YNk9_e4pg4

Lol. Apparently they announced this in December.

Making so much money on the ai bubble that consumer grade shyt, even at ridiculously hyper-inflated pricing, isn't worth it. Even though as a low margin business for 30 years it totally was.

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yeah something is amiss here. This is like a gold mining company going out of business right now at all time record high gold prices...

It makes sense, if there's a different mining opportunity (platinum, uranium, etc), so they shutdown their gold mines, and move their gold mining equipment to the new, more profitable mines.

We need moar poasts like this.

I bought a lot of their product.  Recently, however, I have bought Corsair because that is what Microcenter has been selling.  My last two DIMM kits (64GB each) that were $249 back in October are now $1099.  Incredible.  I feel like a genius.  I bought two of these kits and 2 4TB SSDs at the exact right time.  Also 8 28TB Seagate drives to replace older WD 14TB drives for my media library.  All last year.  My timing was perfect but I admit it was just dumb luck.

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I just paid $1200 for a 64GB module from Lenovo in my new PC.

I don't know what to say.  I wouldn't buy at these prices.  Memory is cyclical and it will return to reasonable prices soon enough.

SamplesBoi wrote:

I don't know what to say.  I wouldn't buy at these prices.  Memory is cyclical and it will return to reasonable prices soon enough.

Yeah. But it is tech refresh time.

I bought four computers today.

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Why do you need 4 new computers?

I have 7

1. Primary for things like posting on CI
2. Media
3. Government Isssued
4. Development
5. Development - live mirror/clone
6. backup 1
7. backup 2

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Why do you need 4 new computers?

It’s tech refresh time.

My main computer is almost four years old.

My wife’s main computer is almost seven years old. 

My shop computer is 12 years old.

And I need a computer in the craft room now that the 3D printer is in there.

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I'm still shocked that Crucial.com went out of business.

Crucial is the consumer subsidiary of Micron.
Micron is still around, they've just decided to sell everything to AI because that's where the money is currently at.

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Crucial is the consumer subsidiary of Micron.
Micron is still around, they've just decided to sell everything to AI because that's where the money is currently at.

Slimy Sam Altman made purchase agreements for a LARGE amount of DRAM.

What happens when Slimy Sam can't pay?  Who knows.

This is a perfect opportunity for CXMT.