From: STeve Andre' (andres_at_pilot.msu.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 03 1999 - 13:21:32 EDT
Something to remember about Crucial memory: the chances of any one of us
getting a bad part for one of our machines is still very small. In this
era of ever increasingly well built components like RAM, a "bad batch"
can mean one bad part in a 100--or less. This is a far cry from the old
ancient days (the Altaircene, I think it was) when chips had a much
higher failure rate, and died after being in use for a while, for more
often than today.
If I needed memory and found a reliable source that stood behind the product
then I would buy Crucial memory for any purpose where it wasn't absolutely
critical that it be added this instant (and face it, by far the most common
reason for adding memory is to speed up a machine).
The other thing to remember is that RAM is more complex than even hard disks,
and all the RAM makers have created bad batches in their time. I remember--
very painfully--when an brand new IBM RS6000 I was working on developed
severe memory problems, and took *three* trips by IBM to fix it: the first
two replacement sets were of the same bad vintage as the factory installed
RAM.
Everything can fail. Everything gets built incorrectly every once in a while.
STeve Andre'
andres_at_pilot.msu.edu
At 12:38 PM 6/3/99 -0400, rj wrote:
>FWIW I got a 64MB chip from Crucial 2 mo ago and no difficulties - yet I
>suppose I should add.
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