Comment on Can I/Should I upgrade RAM past my machine's recommended specs?
seaQueue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Try it and see what happens. Often the maximum on prebuilts isn’t the maximum that the hardware will support. My last laptop claimed 32gb maximum ram but works fine with 8+32gb. Just be aware that it might not work and have an option to return or sell the ram on if it doesn’t.
Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 1 year ago
Word of caution: I added more than max ram to a Synology server once and it “checked out” but Plex sent garbled transcoded if it were ever used. I feared data corruption on routine data checks so I swapped it back.
That was long ago and doubt newer models have the same limits, but it made me think of the data vs risk factor.
seaQueue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, fair point. I’d throw an overnight memtest86 load on it before trusting it for anything important. You should always do that with new memory, especially if you’re trying to do something unsupported.