Lucky enthusiast found $12,000 worth of RAM sitting in his garage

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TL;DR: An Australian tech enthusiast claims to have unexpectedly found dozens of DDR4 memory modules in their garage. Believed to be worth more than $12,000 at current market prices, the DIMMs were reportedly part of an old work server that their previous employer allowed them to keep after it was decommissioned in favor of newer hardware.

According to Redditor VastOption875, the old server, which had been collecting dust in their garage, contained 30 64GB DDR4-2666 memory modules, totaling nearly 2TB.

Given that individual 64GB DDR4 modules sell for around $400 on sites such as Newegg and Amazon, the stash could be worth around $12,000 at current prices, assuming the claims are genuine. The Redditor did not reveal the full specifications of the DDR4 modules, but dual-rank ECC server memory typically commands a premium over non-ECC consumer memory, meaning the modules could be worth more than $400 each on the open market.