I wouldn’t.
Do we have a choice in this?
I buy expensive ram/storage from china so obviously yes.
Almost all RAM and SSD manufacturers have plants or assembly lines in China. So chances are, that whatever you have in your PC right now, is in part manufactured in China. Most hardware supply chains go through China at some point.
considering they make damn near everything else, I don’t see why I’d have reason to be that concerned.
I neither want to buy US nor Chinese products but in that segment I have little choice.
Absolutely. Not buying from China is an impossible task for electronics anyway and I’d welcome some competition in the memory market.
OC, nothing wrong with China…
I wouldn’t say nothing, but the USA is shady and we’re buying their chips all the time, why care about China when we don’t care about the USA?
Eh, when it comes down to it, my concern isn’t country of origin, per se.
Since my concern is about the company making an item, and how shitty they are, you’d have to dig up some serious numbers to show me that a given Chinese company is significantly worse than a company from elsewhere, or that there’s a proven issue where the hardware had known vulnerabilities introduced by virtue of being Chinese in origin.
Both of which are entirely possible. But until I’m actually shopping for the hardware, I have way too many other things that I have to pay attention to to give a flying fuck, so this hypothetical is a zero fucks given for me. China isn’t inherently worse than any other country. It’s got flaws and virtues as they all do. Buying shit from any given country is picking exactly what flaws you prefer.
As much as I dislike the Chinese regime and goes to great lengths to avoid dealing and support them, hardware is one of the few things where the alternative isn’t much better.
If the RAM was cheap and performed well, I would buy it. I wouldn’t trust a no name hard drive though.
That’s the key point, isn’t it? OP’s question isn’t really as hypothetical as it’s phrased; you definitely can go on Amazon or eBay and find cheaper, Chinese knockoff parts.
But will they perform to the same standards as top name brands? Very unlikely.
Why do you ask? Did you find something interesting?
If the part is on par with non-Chinese counterparts at a cheaper price, definitely
From what I remember, there are cheaper China memory modules that are (were?) selling like hot cakes, but eventually they increased the price as well, or something like that.
Depends.
I’m not going to buy the lowest priced parts, but I don’t buy overpriced stuff with flashing LEDs and gold heatsinks either…
Today, I’d rather have a RAID array of multiple drives than rely on 1 (even just a mirror) so failures of cheap-ish wouldn’t be a problem for me.
So… yeah?
