Thursday, February 17th 2022
Crucial to End Ballistix RAM Production and Sales
Out of nowhere, Micron has announced that it will end production of its Ballistix RAM products that are the high-performance and gamer focused RAM products from its Crucial brand. The details available so far doesn't state a reason for the discontinuation of these products. That said, Crucial has launched a wide range of DDR5 products, but so far none under the Ballistix brand and that is obviously a permanent move now. The company said it would focus on "the development of Micron's DDR5 client and server product roadmap, along with the expansion of the Crucial memory and storage product portfolio."
Furthermore the press release mentioned that "the company will continue to support the performance compute and gaming communities with its award-winning SSD products, such as the Crucial P5 Plus Gen 4 PCIe NVMe SSD, Crucial P2 Gen 3 NVMe SSD, and the popular Crucial X6 and Crucial X8 portable SSDs." It seems like Micron has decided to change the focus of it's consumer focused Crucial brand yet again, as the company has done several times in the past, but it's going to remove a major player in the consumer DRAM market, which isn't a good thing, especially as Micron was one of few DRAM manufacturers to offer high-end RAM modules, since neither Samsung or SK-Hynix is in this market. That said, it looks like Crucial will at least continue to offer its standard RAM modules, but they tend to follow JEDEC spec and aren't particularly exciting.
Updated:
Teresa Kelley, Vice President and General Manager, Micron Commercial Products Group: "We remain focused on growing our NVMe and Portable SSD product categories, which both offer storage solutions for PC and console gamers. Additionally, Crucial JEDEC standard DDR5 memory provides mainstream gamers with DDR5-enabled computers with better high-speed performance, data transfers and bandwidth than previously available with Crucial Ballistix memory."
Source:
PCPer
Furthermore the press release mentioned that "the company will continue to support the performance compute and gaming communities with its award-winning SSD products, such as the Crucial P5 Plus Gen 4 PCIe NVMe SSD, Crucial P2 Gen 3 NVMe SSD, and the popular Crucial X6 and Crucial X8 portable SSDs." It seems like Micron has decided to change the focus of it's consumer focused Crucial brand yet again, as the company has done several times in the past, but it's going to remove a major player in the consumer DRAM market, which isn't a good thing, especially as Micron was one of few DRAM manufacturers to offer high-end RAM modules, since neither Samsung or SK-Hynix is in this market. That said, it looks like Crucial will at least continue to offer its standard RAM modules, but they tend to follow JEDEC spec and aren't particularly exciting.
Teresa Kelley, Vice President and General Manager, Micron Commercial Products Group: "We remain focused on growing our NVMe and Portable SSD product categories, which both offer storage solutions for PC and console gamers. Additionally, Crucial JEDEC standard DDR5 memory provides mainstream gamers with DDR5-enabled computers with better high-speed performance, data transfers and bandwidth than previously available with Crucial Ballistix memory."
85 Comments on Crucial to End Ballistix RAM Production and Sales
Well RIP.
These kits are on the QVL list:
3200Mhz 16-18-18-36
eu.crucial.com/memory/ddr4/bl2k16g32c16u4w/ct19853583
eu.crucial.com/memory/ddr4/bl2k16g32c16u4wl/ct19853410
3600Mhz 16-18-18-36
eu.crucial.com/memory/ddr4/bl2k16g36c16u4w/ct19853666
eu.crucial.com/memory/ddr4/bl2k16g36c16u4wl/ct19853489
G.Skill is too expensive here and the Kingston ram is not worth their price and I am done arguing with Gigabyte about RAM support to JEDEC specifications because they only support ram on their QVL list everything else doesn't matter that's what their support told me.
www.crucial.com/memory/ddr4/bl2k16g32c16u4w
for €135
www.amazon.de/-/en/Crucial-Ballistix-Desktop-Gaming-Memory/dp/B083TSJ8NB/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=crucial%2Bballistix%2B3200%2B32gb&qid=1645098377&sprefix=crucial%2Bballistix%2Caps%2C111&sr=8-1&th=1
That said, while I enjoy my Crucial SSDs, they've always been a supplier for others first.
Dropping the ballistix name is a huge mistake. Brand recognition is everything in the memory market and they are giving their biggest up, cuz we want erthang ta be crucial? Just stupid.
One of my fastest and most reliable, but also ugliest USB drives was from Crucial.
I think with all the shortages and stuff they are simply planning to offload memory ICs to OEMs rather than build sticks on their own.
And the award for most ridiculous statement of the year in tech goes to...? Of course crucial ddr5 offers better performance, data transfers and bandwidth! Your comparing ddr2/3/4 to ddr5 you nitwit! You don't even make ballistix ddr5 as a comparison!
Aaaand so we are going to kill off the ddr3/4 ballistix that has nothing to do with ddr5. Oh, and btw it put your company on the map in the enthusiast world. Yup, throwing away sales is a great way to grow your business, hmmm. Someone was hit hard with the stupid stick apparently lmao. I predict Teresa has a glowing future in the biz.
Edit- Sorry for the rant. Stupidity really should hurt tho.