Brian McKee wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Even >> when commodity parts are standards compliant and supposedly interchangeable, >> different implementations of some standard are sometimes still not >> compatible (or buggy.) The supposedly standard commodity parts were never >> tested on this system, with this chipset, as thoroughly as the >> system-branded product. >> > > I don't feel OEM 'branded' product is any less standard compliant than > any other quality replacement product. > Sure, the cheapest stuff will be the buggiest, but Crucial doesn't > sell better ram to Dell than they sell under their own name
That may be so for that particular instance, but it's not always that way. Crucial has a reputation to uphold for the quality of their RAM. However, I can think of at least one example where an OEM got better product than others. Back when Apple was using almost exclusively Sony monitors, I understood that they had more rigorous requirements (having a base of graphic arts customers) than Sony. They got the pick of the production runs. Stuff that didn't meet Apple's standards, but still met Sony's standards, would go to other OEMs or be sold as Sony branded product. So it depends on particulars of the market and product. I've heard that Sun was being equally picky about SSDs for their storage systems. As I said before, you should have a base of knowledge and experience if you choose to break away from your OEM and choose from the universe of standards based components for replacement and/or expansion. But, it can certainly be worth doing in the right cases. -- --------------- Chris Hoogendyk - O__ ---- Systems Administrator c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments (*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst <[email protected]> --------------- Erdös 4 _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
