30 DDR4 64GB RAM sticks worth $10,000 found in garage – leftovers from a decommissioned server
While RAM prices keep breaking records, ordinary components have turned into an asset nobody used to think twice about. Reddit user VastOption8705 found a stash of DDR4 modules in his own garage that's now worth roughly $10,000.
The find consists of 30 sticks at 64GB each, pulled from old servers. That adds up to 1.92TB of memory that had spent years collecting dust doing nothing.
The owner lives in Australia and explained that his former employer let him keep a decommissioned server along with everything inside it. Nobody expected that box of parts would eventually be worth as much as a used car.
Each module runs at 2,666MHz and carries a Samsung sticker. Two things make them extra valuable – they're dual-rank sticks with ECC support, meaning error correction, which matters a lot for server setups.
ECC is exactly why these modules command a premium over regular desktop memory. Owners of servers and workstations running previous-generation platforms still need DDR4, and fresh supply at the old volumes simply doesn't exist anymore.
The DRAM shortage has reshaped the market in a major way. Manufacturers haven't just piled on markups for DDR5 – they've brought DDR4 production back online, even though the standard was considered on its way out not long ago.
The fallout shows up on the consumer side too. MSI, for instance, started bringing DDR4 support back to some of its gaming laptop lineup, which says a lot about how bad the memory availability situation has gotten.
Stories like this – components suddenly worth a fortune – keep popping up. One person left a set of G.SKILL Trident Z5 Royal Neo DDR5 sticks at a vacation home, originally bought for $717, and only remembered them while building a new gaming rig. That same kit is now worth over $3,000.
