Micron Customers Having Trouble Getting Replacements for Faulty Crucial Memory
Micron memory and SSD customers are crying foul after being refused adequate refunds or replacements for faulty products. Micron claims that since it no longer has those parts in stock, it can only offer a refund for the original purchase price, even if that's several times lower than the component's current market value.Micron shuttered its consumer memory and storage brand, Crucial, at the end of 2025, ending 20 years of consumer sales. "We are no longer able to offer replacement products for warranty claims," it said in an email.
- ▪Micron memory and SSD customers are crying foul after being refused adequate refunds or replacements for faulty products.
- ▪Micron claims that since it no longer has those parts in stock, it can only offer a refund for the original purchase price, even if that's several times lower than the component's current market value.Micron shuttered its consumer memory an
- ▪"We are no longer able to offer replacement products for warranty claims," it said in an email.
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Micron memory and SSD customers are crying foul after being refused adequate refunds or replacements for faulty products. Micron claims that since it no longer has those parts in stock, it can only offer a refund for the original purchase price, even if that's several times lower than the component's current market value.Micron shuttered its consumer memory and storage brand, Crucial, at the end of 2025, ending 20 years of consumer sales. It has continued to support existing products since then, but may have started to run low on stock, as a number of users trying to get replacements have hit a brick wall with support queries, Tom's Hardware reports.One frustrated customer posted on Reddit that they had been refused a replacement for their 48GB Crucial DDR5 kit, despite the "Lifetime…
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