Kingston Technology KSM56E46BD8KM-48HM memory module 48 GB 1 x 48 GB DDR5 5600 MT/s 288-pin DIMM

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At **£885.60 ex‑VAT for a single 48GB DDR5 DIMM**, this Kingston is priced like it’s meant for a very specific “drop-in capacity” moment, not for general RAM upgrades. The upside is Kingston reliability and compatibility (especially if you’re staying within the vendor’s supported RDIMM/LRDIMM/SKU guidance for your server), and 48GB is a nice chunk if your workloads are genuinely memory-hungry and you’re trying to reduce how many slots you consume. If you’ve got a box that can take exactly this type of module and you want a clean, low-effort upgrade, it can make sense.

But for most businesses, I’d be cautious. **That price per gigabyte is hard to justify** when you can often build better value with multiple smaller sticks (or find more cost-efficient equivalent capacity from other Kingston lines, or even different brand/grade options) depending on your platform. Also, DDR5 5600 is fine for lots of servers, but if you’re buying this for “performance” rather than “capacity”, you’re unlikely to feel much difference—your bottleneck might not be memory at all. So: **buy it if it’s the supported, exact-match module your server vendor specifies and you specifically need 48GB in one slot**. Otherwise, I’d shop around based on total cost for your target capacity and confirm your server’s memory support first.