While I was rummaging through old boxes in the garage looking for something, I found something interesting. Not only do these little sticks prove my BOOMER power, they also show that I've always been that weird nerd.

These are DDR (original!) 133MHz (so 266MT/s) Unbuffered ECC DIMMs I bought in the middle of 2000, based on manufacturing week (2000, 29th week). At this speed, we're talking about theoretical maximum of 4.256 GB/s bandwidth in dual-channel configuration. Compare that to the PCIe Gen.5 x4 NVMe's 14 GB/s bandwidth (accounting for PCIe overhead). Even Gen.3 x4 NVMe can come close, at over 3.5 GB/s.

I was THAT GUY who insisted on ECC memory, even from that long ago. I think I put these into a Tyan board.

These are 128MB (yes, MEGABYTE) DIMMs, so two sticks would be 1/4 GB.

That CL2 value is crazy low LOL.

So Crucial as a brand existed even back then. I'll miss the brand. Buying from Crucial was pretty much a guarantee that I was getting Micron manufactured DRAM chips. I can still guarantee that by buying Kingston branded ECC UDIMMs because they don't shuffle around DRAM chips without model change.