It dates back to the DDR2 days, when Ballistix DDR2 were dropping like flies. I think it was well over 50% failure rate for me personally, and forums were filled with complaints.
Samsung Magic RAM
Low voltage
Low profile
Overclocks like mad
Cheap
This was a mind expanding experience for many overclockers who thought that you had to pay a boatload for factory overclocked and overvolted RAM that had huge heatsinks/heatspreaders.
Like everything else (see Ballistix above) people will probably remember it for years. I still see constant recommendations to "buy this stuff for $15/4GB," even though that pricing and supply is long gone. I expect to continue seeing such statements in forums, just like people refusing to use [insert GPU brand here] due to driver issues fixed years ago, or people equating Celeron = Crap based on vague memories of original Pentium 4 based Celerons, unaware that you can get a
$50 dual core Ivy Bridge CPU these days that just happens to have a Celeron name on it. How about the general "I won't use XYZ brand because they are
crap" statements? :whiste: