By: Maxwell (max.delete@this.a.com), January 2, 2021 9:45 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Gabriele Svelto (gabriele.svelto.delete@this.gmail.com) on January 2, 2021 6:09 am wrote:
> Björn Ragnar Björnsson (bjorn.ragnar.delete@this.gmail.com) on January 1, 2021 8:41 pm wrote:
> > Now that the "hot" (not thermally speaking) CPUs are from AMD and they do in fact support
> > ECC, I have the distinct feeling from my wanderings on the Web that desktop ECC offerings
> > are on the rise although I suspect that Crucial/Micron have at the same time been cutting
> > back on their unbuffered ECC selection. Strange times indeed.
>
> I heard that Crucial had just exited that market, but they recently
> launched DDR4-3200 ECC UDIMMs to my great surprise:
>
> https://www.crucial.com/memory/server-ddr4/mta9asf2g72az-3g2b1
> https://www.crucial.com/memory/server-ddr4/mta18asf4g72az-3g2b1
>
> In Europe they're quite reasonably priced too.
These are Micron branded modules which aren't sold direct. And since there isn't strong retail demand, the markup is high.
So the price went up, but Micron isn't making more money. Good job guys.
Max
> Björn Ragnar Björnsson (bjorn.ragnar.delete@this.gmail.com) on January 1, 2021 8:41 pm wrote:
> > Now that the "hot" (not thermally speaking) CPUs are from AMD and they do in fact support
> > ECC, I have the distinct feeling from my wanderings on the Web that desktop ECC offerings
> > are on the rise although I suspect that Crucial/Micron have at the same time been cutting
> > back on their unbuffered ECC selection. Strange times indeed.
>
> I heard that Crucial had just exited that market, but they recently
> launched DDR4-3200 ECC UDIMMs to my great surprise:
>
> https://www.crucial.com/memory/server-ddr4/mta9asf2g72az-3g2b1
> https://www.crucial.com/memory/server-ddr4/mta18asf4g72az-3g2b1
>
> In Europe they're quite reasonably priced too.
These are Micron branded modules which aren't sold direct. And since there isn't strong retail demand, the markup is high.
So the price went up, but Micron isn't making more money. Good job guys.
Max