As someone who installed hundreds of sticks of memory / year for years,
it was my experience that there is different levels of quality of
memory and you pay for the difference... but not much in the case of
Crucial since it is the retail arm of Micron one of the largest mem
manufacturers in the world ... and they run a high volume / low price
market model of business with no middle man markup.
And the same quality issue is involved as with all computer parts and as
with most things. You can manufacture things of better quality or worse
... or to put it another way ... things coming off the line test out at
different levels of capacity. And not much is thrown away. Thus the
term... "3rd drawer".
Items that test out at sub par standards, are "3rd drawer" and are
usually sold thru non premium discount channels.
Crucial sells only "first drawer" and in my experience their memory's
performance and failure rate easily attests to that. I imagine Micron
sells it 3rd drawer productn unbranded or rebranded thru external channels
Problems with an under performing memory stick are a real illusive pain
in the butt. Why subject yourself to raised possibility of such for
pennies savings or no savings at all?
Crucial is one of those companies that should be winning awards for
doing great "win-win" business for a long time... a somewhat rare
commodity. I really enjoy buying their product and supporting them.
Cheap prices, great product, great support, FAST delivery... what's not
to like?
db
Tom Piwowar wrote:
Tom will tell you they are more expensive, but when I check, crucial beats
datamem's prices.
When I checked, Crucial's prices they were high, sometimes very high. I
think it is silly to overpay when there is no difference in the product.
For years Crucial has claimed "special sauce" and I think that was false.
If they have changed their ways there is no reason to not buy from them.
You could do worse, like buying memory from Apple or Dell.
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