Who the hell is buying their server memory from Amazon?! Also, can I interest you in a $101,000 kit?

A 2 TB server RAM kit — (Image credit: Nemix RAM)

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?

First $100,000 RAM kit 💀 https://t.co/oxI9q1fKd4 pic.twitter.com/9cKP39N7xzSeptember 20, 2026

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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Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window. He first started writing for Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox World many decades ago, then moved onto PC Format full-time, then PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 among others. Now he's back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck.