A moment of silence for the Crucial brand
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Well that’s a sample size of 1 so yeah.Apparently, but I have an OCZ Agility 3 working just fine still
Looking at the wiki page for OCZ, some of their products had a failure rate of 52% which was a little higher than everyone else who never exceeded 5%.
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I've still got a Vertex 3 running in an old laptop. Although it's been secure erased a couple of times in it's lifetime due to Sandforce shenanigans.Well that’s a sample size of 1 so yeah.
Looking at the wiki page for OCZ, some of their products had a failure rate of 52% which was a little higher than everyone else who never exceeded 5%.
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It's going to be fun having all this advanced AI yet nobody can afford anything to run it 
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I wonder if this is the beginning of the end of consumer supply, because the AI goons and enterprise types have contracts to reserve everything produced on any new node for years.
I for one do not welcome our infinitely wealthy, leather jacket wearing, tech bro, bunker dwelling overlords.
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Well nobody has come from the future to stop AI so it must be fine I guess
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Yep had an OCZ drive that was rubbish. All my Crucial SSD's are still running great - I'm looking at an old Crucial BX500 SSD as I type this; think we'll have a candle lit vigil tonight in memoriam.
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Used some recently acquired Crucial Pro memory for an AM4 upgrade/refurb. As always it worked.
Also pulled the trigger on a Strix Halo build (Corsair) this week and it arrived today - 8 x 16GB of DDR5-8000 on the APU is from... Micron
I'm sure they won't go hungry if consumers boycott them.
Also pulled the trigger on a Strix Halo build (Corsair) this week and it arrived today - 8 x 16GB of DDR5-8000 on the APU is from... Micron
I'm sure they won't go hungry if consumers boycott them.
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Ditto.
No doubt once the AI teat has been well and truly suckled dry, Micron will be relaunching the Crucial brand to reclaim consumers.
Mind you, that AI teat has only just started to lactate, so might be a while before it’s dry.
whilst i don't like it, i hope this "AI" malarky will run to fruition
the alternative will be a massive recession that, i expect, will look worse than the dot-com or financial recessions
reason being that basically all the top companies are circle-jerking themselves
if the wheels of the gravy train come off, there'll be hell to pay, and as usual, us the average joes will be the one holding the explosives as it goes off whilst the rich run with their ill-gotten gains
Hm, depends what 'fruition' means. I watched an interview with Professor Stuart Russell who is somewhat concerned by what's coming.
Having written the textbook on AI and been in the field for decades he says the handful of AI companies aiming for AGI seem to think an extinction level event is a probability - between 20 and 30%.
AI will change the world be it through extinction or, if some safe guards are actually implemented then we'll have a new reality to deal with in any case.
I think RAM prices will be the least of our concerns in the next few years.
If you're interested, it's about an hour long though
my thoughts exactly
there will need to be massive safeguards lol
if 4chaners can corrupt microsoft AI in a day, just think of what they can do with the amount of vitriol swirling around the net and then unleash on the rest of us
A big portion of their issues were with early SSD's using certain controllers, I think it was the early Sandforce related stuff that had huge failure rates. Firmware updates alleviated a lot of the problems, they rolled out a pretty competent line of SSD's the generation after and even worked with a number of tech sites to give out numerous review samples for their forum members to run and test over a year + for free. It was very much too little too late unfortunately, I actually still have a OCZ 480GB 460A SATA based SSD running as an O/S drive in one of my rigs and way back in the day happily sported a 60gb Agility 3 boot drive, the 460A is still going strong at over a decade old and I know a lot of people who received those drives for free that never had issues either.
The massive SSD failure rates are what probably did them in.
Here's the elderly 460A for anyone interested
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@Gray2233 92% is more than decent for an old SSD!
Makes me want to hunt down that M225 to see how that's fairing. Those were the days, way over £100+ for 64Gb but damn did it feel like one of those big changes that happen in the pc world.
Makes me want to hunt down that M225 to see how that's fairing. Those were the days, way over £100+ for 64Gb but damn did it feel like one of those big changes that happen in the pc world.
Honestly I think I'll keep using it until it gives up the ghost in some capacity, I've developed a strange attachment to it.
That's five years of straight powered on use at over 46,000 hours!
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