Crucial 16GB Single DDR4 RAM issue (occured 01.15.2026)
Hello. Shemuel (WhaleStudios) here. I love your company that you made high quality rams and other parts, but I've experienced an issue today...The Crucial 16GB DDR4 RAM, 3200MHz CL22 (or 2933MHz or 2666MHz) Laptop Memory, SODIMM 260-Pin, Compatible with 13th Gen Intel Core and AMD Ryzen 7000 - CT16G4SFRA32A received from amazon.com (not from crucial.com) that was bought for my Dell Inspiron 5481 2-in-1 had died after a few days later. It didn't even last for a few years or more.The RAM i've received was working for a few days and then later, it went defective. (Installed on my Dell Inspiron 14 5481 2-in-1)* I'm from TCI (Turks & Caicos), and not in the US.
WhaleStudios [SH]
Speaking with customer support was ok
Speaking with customer support was ok - hard to understand representative. VERY DISSAPPOINTED THAT I HAVE TO WAIT 10 BUSINESS DAYS AFTER YOU RECEIVE THE DAMAGED SSD BACK BEFORE A REPLACEMENT IS SENT. THAT MEANS I AM UNABLE TO BACK UP MY DATA UNTIL I RECEIVE THE SSD. TO DATE I HAVE NOT RECEIVED THE REPLACEMENT
Customer
Product registration online is not working.
Product registration online is not working. I also want to receive the Adobe software offer. I received the X10 Pro SSD as a gift and do not have a receipt. How do I receive the Adobe software offer from Crucial.com?
New Customa
There is always a difference in the…
There is always a difference in the price vs the cost.Crucial and Micron sometimes are more in price but the standards of care, the complete accuracy of those recommendations from the latest hardware you just may find you are using, I find that no one but Crucial to be "above and beyond!" *Yes, Crucial is making the best, most accurate and reliable advice. Confidence, Trust and Connection makes them the best in SERVICE! Use this with confidence along with the best manufacturing and guess what? This is what I call a 360 Win1So what is cost of NOT using crucial?
VETERAN FAMILY
Worst SSD one can purchase - Poor support and warranty service
This is the worst external drive we have ever owned; we purchased it in Feb-2025. We are only using it for monthly data backup, and we have encountered every imaginable issue incl. mounting the drive, erratic access issues due to alleged missing permissions, and inadequate (overseas/hard-to-understand) support. All these issues required many hours of research, trying posted solutions that do not necessarily work. This is also the only drive we have owned that does not assign a letter to the drive until credentials are input. We truly don't understand the glowing reviews - this product is unreliable and should not be sold based on our experience with it. Fast forward ten months and we could not tolerate this SSD anymore, we spent 1 hr+ in a chat with Crucial. After providing the serial number and proof of purchase, we were told our only choice is to pay for postage and mail it back to Pharr, TX for a replacement. The chat representative stated that Crucial only issues replacements under their 5-yr warranty, not refunds, contrary to their warranty which states that "Micron CPG, at its option, will repair, replace, or provide an in-store credit or refund of either the original purchase price or fair market value, whichever is lower, of any product that is determined by Micron CPG to be defective during the warranty period." You may ask why would we want to receive a replacement instrument of torture? Who knows - maybe because we spent $75 to purchase this and the cost will go up after factoring in return shipping. Our good fortune does not end there - we've just spent another two days trying to wipe this drive before mailing it back. We could get Windows DiskPart to run and were equally unsuccessful in launching Crucial's Storage Executive tool to sanitize the drive. So it was another collaboration with an industry-veteran friend to wipe this drive and that took a full four hours. After our marathon "delete files & folder" action, we concluded that the Master File Table (MFT) of the New Technology File System (NTFS) of the SSD was corrupt and the defects were caused by the SSD hardware. The MFT could be read and displayed in the Windows File Explorer, but some references to folders and/or files were corrupt. Some folders could not be accessed at all, but some subfolders and files were still accessible. The recursive deletion function stalled at folders that could not be accessed. Files and subfolders often could be accessed for deletion at the parent folder level however it was not accessible, resulting in the need to delete at the subfolder or file level which was extremely time-consuming. The defects in the hardware where the MFT is located explain the various problems we have had since we have owned this SSD. By now, all indicators are pointing to a bad chip in the SSD and these problems are hard to locate. If we have all the time to spare, we could run a WinHex forensic analysis on this SSD to identify specific defects but then again, who would want to spend their spare time doing this? Granted these problems are not specific to Crucial SSD, they are rare. What's irritating was the way the Crucial SSD was protected. It contained two partitions - a small system partition and a large data partition. Obviously, the invisible small system partition contains the password and the unlocking software. It mounts the large partition once the correct password was entered. All the external SSDs we have used so far have just one partition. Even though this has nothing to do with the actual problems of our SSD, it is just puzzling as to why Crucial chose such a protection scheme. When Crucial receives the SSD we are returning, assuming they bother to analyze it, they will find that the SSD now only contains one empty partition. That's because with no native sanitizing tools working, our only choice to remove sensitive data off the SSD was to "clean" the entire disk, hence the SSD now only has one partition, the one that we had to create to confirm that all data has been wiped. In this case, the nuclear option was the only way to wipe the SSD they want us to return. As you can see from the above comments, this drive is so defective that we don't know how it passed QC. Crucial is part of Micron so it is not a small company - surely, they can do better with their product design, QC, customer service, and warranty administration. In our opinion, this was an epic failure in product, people and process on Crucial's part. We stand behind this review - Crucial, if you are reading this, reach out and we will gladly provide the chat reference and the RMA# to back up our comments.
Mary S
Subpar Customer service
Subpar Customer service
elcoco enjaco
Went to their website to buy some RAM…
Went to their website to buy some RAM for my laptop only to find that they've decided that due to AI don't want to start I consumers anymore. The little people you know consumers the people that want are enthusiastic about their builds whether it's PC or laptop and they want to buy RAM I now not able to find any from this maker anymore because they're no longer make RAM for us small people because bigger businesses are more important. Yes it annoys me that's one less company making memory for the consumer PC market and obviously that means higher prices but it's also reflection after how little the company really care about those that have got it where it is today.Obviously it's difficult for me to tell a large multi-billion pound cooperation Google to avoid but obviously I would tell you to avoid them if I could.
Jamie Powell
One of the worst company for warranty…
One of the worst company for warranty repair support
Mi
I have never dealt with worst customer…
I have never dealt with worst customer support in my life! Made 10x worse its an exact repeat of the poor shambolic service I received last time!I have ONE Crucial hard drive, which failed in Aug. it took a MONTH to sort, and every time I chased I got a generic apology and nothing more no matter how I chased, asked or even questioned. 3 months later, the REPLACEMENT drive failed!The support got worse, the response speeds slower and its become apparent not one person actually cares to even bother offering even the most minimum of customer service. You literally get ignored at every point, told it takes 10 days. Then on day 12, when chasing, I get told it takes 10 days!!! Its pure comedy! When I question anything, it gets ignored and I get told 10 days!!! I then get told in the customer chat website that its down to the address problem, which it isnt because they sent my last hard drive to the same address, and the error they are saying is generated by their own systems!!!Ive asked 3x to put a full complaint in and got no where. No one wants to raise it no matter what I ask! Not one person has shown any level of customer service, ignores what's requested.Compare this to SanDisk/WD, I have probably 200 products. 1 failed recently and I had a replacement in my hand within 3 days!!! Do not buy anything Crucial! I even asked the Website chat people to file a complaint for me, and guess what, its done internally, I wont hear anything back. I genuinely do not believe its even been filed! (who would ever write an email to a manager saying we have been really bad at our jobs, and not just one of us, pretty much all of us!!!!)UPDATE - I did get a generic apology email after posting this review (the other 15 emails got me no where yet when public suddenly they want to be seen as doing something!). I find it comical that the response below they almost seem proud they found my order number, despite requesting my RMA details this morning!!! At the same time, you would think given the shocking level of service and the fact this is a carbon copy of last time, maybe, as an idea, call the dispatch team, prioritise the drive to go ASAP this morning, on a service for delivery tomorrow, but no, you just get told wait longer and it may ship at some point! Its embarrassing and such a sub standard level of customer support. I will update with full timeline from when they received my drive to when I get the replacement, once received.Just to add, the replacement was expedited and shipped apparently but, amazingly, coming from Malaysia!!!! Could Crucial offer a slower service? I very much doubt it and I’ll update how many days an “expedited” service takes when I receive the drive!
Paul St
The agent is very kind and competent.
I consulted with the agent because the RAM I purchased was suspected to be defective, and the issue was resolved very clearly. So, I was able to proceed with the RMA and got a chance to use the RAM again.
Customer
Customer support agent was quick to…
Customer support agent was quick to respond, was knowledgeable and helped me resolve my concern.
Customer
Customer Support was awesome!
Customer Support was awesome!
Wret
Scummy company
Once that bubble pops I'm not buying your stuff ever again Shame.
Hendrix C
Horrible company who only cares about…
Horrible company who only cares about profit over anything else.
Frederik H
Why, Micron? Why!?
So, I've been buying ram from them for years, building a relationship with this brand, telling all of my customers to go with them... And to only find out that the knife twist in my back that is the AI rush has made this house hold brand into a money hog doesn't sit will with me. I will be in the process of removing all of my crucial products from my home and smashing them flat as I replace them... Hope the AI bubble doesn't destroy your brand.
Tom B
Selling out consumers to cash in on the…
Selling out consumers to cash in on the Ai bubble, remember this when the bubble pops and they come crawling back to the consumer market! I currently have 4 Crucial NVME drives plus 256gb crucial RAM, they will be my last.
Gavin Rook
After speaking with numerous agents…
After speaking with numerous agents regarding my RMA order, I finally received the optimum customer support I needed from Lokesh Raathore. He was highly effective and resolved my issue quickly. His assistance was a huge relief and significantly improved my experience. Thank you, Lokesh, for providing such excellent, high-quality support when it was required most.
Anuschka
Avoid Crucial – Terrible Customer Service and Useless Warranty Support
RMA: SGS10768774.I’ve spent over a month trying to get a warranty replacement for a Crucial hard drive that failed well within the 12-month warranty period. I followed every instruction exactly. I was given an RMA number, paid £10 to return the item, and sent it off with special delivery tracking. After that—nothing.Crucial claimed they had no record of receiving it until I sent them the tracking proof myself. Even after that, weeks passed with no update, no replacement, and the same generic template emails from outsourced home-based support agents who can’t escalate anything and never me call back. There is no UK customer service, no one in the UK head office who will answer a phone, and no way to speak to anyone who can actually resolve an issue.It’s now been six weeks and I’m still stuck in the same loop with no resolution and no replacement for a simple warranty claim.I am expecting Crucial to add a copy and paste response below to match all of their customer service, faceless, no names, no accountability and unhelpful. Protect the brand at all costs, irrespective of the customer!My advice: Do not buy from Crucial or Micron.They have exited the UK, outsourced their support and logistics, and clearly do not value their customers or honour their warranty process. I deeply regret buying this drive through Amazon and would strongly urge others to avoid this company entirely.
SIMON LIVINGSTONE
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Chuck Adams
Painful Replacement... Still Ongoing.
Had my SSD fail within just eight months. I sent it to Crucial, and at first their response was great. But now that it’s time for a replacement, all I’ve been told—every single day for the past two weeks—is that “it’s with the internal team.” No timelines, no meaningful updates, nothing.For something as simple as a replacement, this has become the most unnecessarily painful returns process I’ve ever dealt with. Still no update, still no new drive. I genuinely hope yours never fails, because if it does, be prepared for a frustrating experience.Edit: They respond to bad reviews quicker than they do to the customers who buy their products.
Jordi Scattergood.
