If your RAM fails then it generally does so quickly, and also if your RAM fails you probably bought some bargain-bin stuff. As a rule of thumb don’t buy DIMMs from companies which don’t produce their own chips, or are extremely reputable. And with that I don’t mean “you have heard of them”.
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Slow@lemmy.today 9 months agoI wonder why computer RAM fails more often than portable devices?
barsoap@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Mozingo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Partly because people replace phones more often than computers. But also the RAM they use in portable devices was made specifically for the device and integrated directly into the mainboard. There’s less points of failure and compatibility is never an issue. Since desktop RAM can be replaced and upgraded, it’s not as big of a deal if it fails, you can just swap it out with a new stick. Whereas it would brick the whole device if mobile ram fails, so quality standards are much higher.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Not to mention the differences between a soldered interface with the chip directly on the main board designed to basically be permanent, versus a simple contact interface and daughter board designed to be removable, thus adding additional points of failure.
Eheran@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Is that really so or just an assumption?