[Ti] Memory Recommendations

[Dave Friesen]

I'll also go on record as saying I've successfully bought from Coast to
Coast, without any issues.

I do prefer Data Memory (datamem.com) when they are lower in price.

Both, according to my poor memory (pun not intended), have been residing in
my Ti for a long, long time.

On 5/2/03 9:11 AM, "Kynan Shook" <kshook at mac.com> wrote:

> OK, I'm going to give a STRONG recommendation AGAINST Coast to Coast
> Memory (aka 1-800-4-MEMORY).  Let me just say that their RAM is the
> really really cheap stuff, and their failure rate is fairly high.
> Trust me; it's worth paying a little extra dough to buy good RAM.
> Buying bad RAM can cause random crashes, directory corruption
> (sometimes necessitating reformatting your hard drive), it can prevent
> booting, or any of about three thousand other problems; bad RAM can
> literally cause ANY computer problem, and I should know: in my job as a
> repair technician, I've seen most of them.
> 
> Anyway, you might want to check out
> <http://www.crucial.com/library/quality_page1.asp> where the whole
> quality thing is explained much more thoroughly than I will here.  I
> would say that I definitely recommend Crucial; our store only sells
> Crucial now, but they used to sell the cheapest RAM available.
> Sometimes we would get whole shipments of RAM that were bad and would
> have to be sent back.  We literally had to pay somebody to just sit at
> a small testing machine and test RAM for hours and hours.  I still see
> people bringing in computers that have this older RAM which is causing
> problems.  I have seen maybe one Crucial module fail, compared to
> probably at least 50 or 100 no-name modules.
> 
> Now I can't say that you will certainly have problems with Coast to
> Coast; I'm just saying that their quality control is probably at least
> an order of magnitude or two worse.  I prefer to pay a little more for
> a better product than to suffer through endless problems that are
> nearly impossible to trace.