The hardest part of selling decommissioned servers, memory, or storage in 2026 isn’t finding a buyer. It’s knowing what the gear is actually worth this week — because the number has been moving fast enough that any price more than a few weeks old is probably wrong.
That accuracy is the part we’ve built our business around, and it’s worth explaining why it matters more right now than it has in years.
Why the price keeps moving
In its finalized first-quarter survey, TrendForce put conventional DRAM contract prices up 93–98% quarter over quarter — buyers signing fresh contracts early in the year paid roughly double what they paid three months earlier. Prices kept climbing into Q2, with NAND flash now forecast to rise faster than DRAM for the first time this cycle, pulled along by enterprise SSD demand from large-scale AI deployments. We broke down the full picture, including where the first signs of buyer caution are showing up, in our read on how DRAM and NAND prices are behaving in mid-2026.
Secondary-market values on used and pulled parts tend to track that new-part market with a lag. So resale prices on quality decommissioned inventory have risen too — and in a market this volatile, the spread between segments can shift week to week. A flat price list simply can’t keep up.
How we get the number right
This is where our pricing approach does the work. We use AI-empowered, data-driven valuation: we run large volumes of current secondary-market data through AI-assisted analysis, so the quote you get reflects where the market is today, not where it was last quarter.
In a calm market, that distinction barely matters. In one that moved more than 90% in a single quarter, it’s the difference between a fair offer and leaving real money on the table. Accurate pricing is also what lets the whole exchange work. We sit between two sides of the market: organizations clearing surplus or end-of-life hardware on one end, and buyers who need reliable supply of specific parts — often right when new stock is expensive or back-ordered — on the other. Pricing against live data keeps it fair both ways. Sellers recover more of what their assets are genuinely worth, buyers get a quote they can act on, and both come back because the numbers hold up.
A buyer you can actually trust
Accurate pricing only counts if the company behind it is dependable. We’re a BBB A+ rated IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) company, and the process is built to be transparent and low-friction from the first quote to the payout:
- We quote your hardware against the current market and send a prepaid shipping label — you don’t front the freight.
- Once your equipment arrives and we inspect it, payment goes out within one business day. No waiting weeks for a check.
- We track and publish analysis of the memory and storage markets, so the people pricing your gear actually follow the cycle it’s priced against.
For a seller, that combination — a current, defensible price plus a partner who pays fast and stands behind the process — is what turns a storage room full of idle hardware into recovered value without the usual hassle.
What we buy
We pay for the core infrastructure categories. You can sell RAM, including enterprise server DDR4 and DDR5, sell CPU, sell GPU accelerators, and sell SSD hard drives, along with networking equipment and other business hardware.
The next TrendForce spot updates and the Q3 contract survey land toward late June, and they’ll say more about where this cycle goes than any single forecast. You don’t have to time it perfectly — but you should know what your inventory is worth right now. Request a quote and we’ll price it against today’s market.