After nearly 30 years, Crucial will stop selling RAM to consumers
68 points by downrightmike
by mindcrash
2 subcomments
The only brand currently on the market with > 96Gb DDR5 SODIMM memory modules which currently is a set of 128Gb (2x64) DDR5 SODIMMs is Crucial. At least here in the EU.
So if you're on the market for a current gen laptop or laptop based mini pc (e.g. AMD Strix Point - HX 370 and friends) containing a pretty fast AI capable iGPU with system shared memory (e.g. the Radeon 890M which is part of Strix Point), meaning you can allocate at most 50% of system memory = ~64Gb to the video card, you better stock up soon.
by russfink
0 subcomment
Damn … Crucial P3 plus and P5 plus support Opal 2.0 full disk encryption. This leaves Samsung standing nearly alone in the consumer market, except for some smaller names.
Maybe this will allow for ECC everywhere when the bubble pops
by dedup-com
13 subcomments
I frankly don't understand why RAM for consumers is a thing. I don't know of any other popular consumer good that is routinely built by the consumer out of individual components. You buy cars, phones, refrigerators, amplifiers, et cetera et cetera whole. Why computers are different, in the year of our lord 2025, is a mystery to me. This shouldn't be happening, and I am saying this as a hardware enthusiast who builds his own computers since Windows 3.1 days.
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