🔴 RAM/NVMe Market Alert: Impacts and Opportunities for ScalarCloud Clients
Published on December 10, 2025 in Cloud
Hello everyone,
As some of you have already noticed, RAM prices and NVMe storage prices have been skyrocketing for some time.
The figures speak for themselves: the same RAM model (G.Skill Ripjaws M5 RGB 96 GB) from the same supplier (LDLC Pro) that I bought in September has gone from €374.96 excluding VAT to €1,609.96 excluding VAT. That is an increase of more than 400%. At the same time, the price of the NVMe drive (Corsair MP700 PRO SE 4 TB) rose from €499.96 to €583.29.
The cause? Explosive demand for “AI compute.” It has become far more profitable for manufacturers to prioritize GPU-specific RAM, drastically reducing production capacity for the rest of the market.
The situation accelerated on December 3 with the announcement that Micron was withdrawing from the consumer market (the Crucial product line) to focus on data centers. The result: pressure on inventory is intensifying. The indicators point to a potential increase of 500% over the next 6 months, with a peak expected in summer 2026.
What Does This Mean for You?
1. Current ScalarCloud clients: Your prices remain unchanged. We secured our supplier contracts for several years when your infrastructure was deployed. Your current resources are protected.
2. The current inventory dilemma: We have infrastructure in stock. Financial logic would suggest using it to attract new clients at a high price. I made a different decision.
Starting today, we are prioritizing our partners and existing clients. Throughout December, you can purchase RAM at the current price, before the increase, while supplies last.
If you expect to need additional resources next year, now is the time to secure them. If any inventory remains after this operation, it will be offered at the standard price through December 31.
– Billing starts, even if allocation takes place earlier: January 1, 2026. – Commitment: None. You can return this RAM at any time, at which point it will return to inventory and be offered at the new price.
Looking Ahead
For new infrastructure, excluding current inventory, we are still considering the fairest model: passing through the actual cost of RAM, with a significant impact for some, or spreading the increase across all services. Simulations are underway, and a hybrid approach may emerge.
If you expect to need an expansion or new machines, contact us quickly. We estimate that the current inventory will be depleted by the end of December, excluding the “spare” safety stock that we must retain for maintenance.
Have an excellent day, everyone.
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Christophe Casalegno
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ScalarCloud Europe 2025 Infrastructure: Updates
Published on November 27, 2024 in Cloud
Hello everyone, we have just approved the new ScalarCloud Europe 2025 infrastructure, and the hardware order was placed today.
Former ScalarCloud infrastructure (2021):
– Processor: 2 × Intel Xeon Gold 6242R – 20c/40t
– RAM: 768 GB ECC 2933 MHz
– Storage: 12 × 3.84 TB NVMe SSDs (2 arrays made up of 6 NVMe SSDs in RAID 10)
Redundant connection: 2 x 10 Gb/s
Points of presence: UK (ERI), DE (LIM), FR (RBX, GRA)
New ScalarCloud infrastructure (2025):
– Processor: 2 x Dual AMD EPYC 9354 – 64c/128t
– RAM: 1.5 TB DDR5 ECC 4800 MHz
– Storage: 18 x 3.84 TB NVMe SSDs (3 arrays made up of 6 NVMe SSDs in RAID 10)
Redundant connection: 2 x 25 Gb/s
Points of presence: FR (RBX, GRA, SBG), DE (LIM).
HDS healthcare data hosting certification.
In short, we are closing the ERI site (UK) and replacing it with Strasbourg, as Brexit has created too many certification issues for some European clients.
HDS (healthcare certification) is becoming the default for our infrastructure.
We are keeping the same hardware policy: no compromise on performance. The new AMD EPYC 9354 processors deliver better performance in every area, along with memory bandwidth increasing from 140.8 to 460.8 GB/s.
On the network side, our standard redundant connections are increasing from 10 to 25 Gb/s.
Finally, on the storage side, the standard is increasing from 2 RAID arrays to 3.
The current 2 separate arrays provide clients with ultra-high-performance, readily available local backup space without requiring network services.
The 3rd array strengthens the overall system by serving as a spare array, enabling a more efficient, safer, and faster switch in the event of a hardware incident:
1) Local migration to the spare array to secure the data immediately.
2) Migration of the VMs to another node once the data is secure
3) Hardware maintenance on the original node
4) Tests and validation
5) Return to the original node.
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