From: Vincent Poy (vince_at_mail.MCESTATE.COM)
Date: Thu Jun 03 1999 - 16:43:57 EDT
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, STeve Andre' wrote:
> 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).
You raise a very good point. The purpose of adding memory is to
speed up a machine and reduce the load on the HDD from swapping. I
thought with all computer components or any other electronic components,
it's important to do the 72 hour burn-in period to make sure it works
correctly since if it fails, it will usually fail by then. I just
remember a few years being 10 ago, people always said Toshiba was the best
and the reason was that other brands slow down as they aged. The only
memory I had bad experience with numerous times and even my friend who is
a vendor told me this was NMBS. Their memory might be sold as 80ns but
it's really 100ns.
> 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.
I never seen problems with machines of that size yet except AIX is
a pain in the you know where to port Unix applications compared to DEC, HP
and SUN.
> Everything can fail. Everything gets built incorrectly every once in
> a while.
Yep, that's true. Look at me... I bought the most expensive
ThinkPad and it's having problems right out of the box.
Cheers,
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