RAM Upgrade Recommendation for MBP

[FlamesPuck12]

I have a 15 inch MBP, late 2011 model and I upgraded the RAM to 8 GB (2x4 GB Corsair Mac Memory) (http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX35470).

Since December, I had 2 defects with the Corsair RAM. (Stuck bit couple months ago and I got it replaced under warranty and it happened again)

I'm getting annoyed with the RAM corrupting my files on my system and having to do a fresh install again.

Does anyone have any recommendations on which brand is reliable? I'm leaning towards Crucial or G.Skill at the moment.

[Rathji]

I assume you have tried to replace under warranty? Or product replacement plan.

edit: Obviously I can't read.

I can't suggest anything I would trust much more than Corsair. Just get it replaced, make sure you have a backup and move on.

[DownInFlames]

Normally I would recommend Corsair because I use it in my MBP without any problems. It's weird that you had issues twice.

[MickMcGeough]

Originally Posted by FlamesPuck12

I have a 15 inch MBP, late 2011 model and I upgraded the RAM to 8 GB (2x4 GB Corsair Mac Memory) (http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX35470).

Since December, I had 2 defects with the Corsair RAM. (Stuck bit couple months ago and I got it replaced under warranty and it happened again)

I'm getting annoyed with the RAM corrupting my files on my system and having to do a fresh install again.

Does anyone have any recommendations on which brand is reliable? I'm leaning towards Crucial or G.Skill at the moment.

I installed this kit in an early 2011 MBP with no issues at all (about 2 months so far). The 2011s support 1600Mhz RAM so you get a nice speed bump as well.

[bspec]

I bought an 8GB kit from Crucial for my 2011 iMac and it's been great so far. I'd definitely recommend Crucial.

[sclitheroe]

Originally Posted by FlamesPuck12

I have a 15 inch MBP, late 2011 model and I upgraded the RAM to 8 GB (2x4 GB Corsair Mac Memory) (http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX35470).

Since December, I had 2 defects with the Corsair RAM. (Stuck bit couple months ago and I got it replaced under warranty and it happened again)

I'm getting annoyed with the RAM corrupting my files on my system and having to do a fresh install again.

Does anyone have any recommendations on which brand is reliable? I'm leaning towards Crucial or G.Skill at the moment.

Bad RAM is almost vanishingly rare these days and I can't imagine the odds of getting two bad DIMMs in a row.

Were the RAM failures both in the same DIMM slot? If you swapped the DIMMS, would the error occur yet again in the same DIMM slot?

I wonder if it will turn out that you've got a flaky memory controller or other logic board part that is causing RAM related failures.

[FlamesPuck12]

Originally Posted by sclitheroe

Bad RAM is almost vanishingly rare these days and I can't imagine the odds of getting two bad DIMMs in a row.

Were the RAM failures both in the same DIMM slot? If you swapped the DIMMS, would the error occur yet again in the same DIMM slot?

I wonder if it will turn out that you've got a flaky memory controller or other logic board part that is causing RAM related failures.

I have the original RAM that came with the MBP so I popped those in for now and several iterations of memtest all returned success, where as the Corsair RAM always return failure since it went bad. When I first got the Corsair RAM, I thoroughly ran memtests to ensure that it wasn't defective to start with.

[sclitheroe]

Originally Posted by FlamesPuck12

I have the original RAM that came with the MBP so I popped those in for now and several iterations of memtest all returned success, where as the Corsair RAM always return failure since it went bad. When I first got the Corsair RAM, I thoroughly ran memtests to ensure that it wasn't defective to start with.

Cool, well at least you can be confident it isn't the logic board.