Why I only buy and sell Samsung SSD

[BitMaster]

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/adata-and-other-ssd-makers-swapping-parts

 

Eye opening article

[LucShep]

Good article with relevant information.  Thanks 

[Svsmokey]

Yep , Thanks !

[Sr.]

My standard rule...

 

Good ain't cheap, and cheap ain't good.

[Dangerzone]

... and expensive doesn't always guarantee quality either. Good won't be cheap, but can't go on $'s alone. 

[BitMaster]

True too, but bear in mind the most expensive endavour would be to buy cheap first, then loose data and then being forced to buy the real thing.

 

Heck, even a Samsung or Intel 905p can die in a matter of hours or days if you are unlucky, but betting on the cheapest horse if you have a critical undertaking ahead of you was never a good idea.

 

Fast, cheap, reliable ::  PICK ANY TWO   another valid approach to that dilemma.

Edited December 5, 2020 by BitMaster

[reece146]

To be fair, I have almost a dozen of these ADATA/XPG 8200's in various sizes running in my lab. Also have several of the HP EX series units mentioned in the article. I've never had an issue with any of them over the last 3+ years. I have never lost data or had a "mechanical" failure with these units. They get beat on continually 24/7/365 as they hold the VMs that run my clusters.

 

I'm as annoyed as anyone about the potential for bait and switch in this case. I'm glad this has been called out by Tom's. But let's not get hyperbolic and imply the device is unreliable for data integrity due to an attempted like-for-like change of the controller.

 

Drives, even SSDs, are a wear item - expect them to die any time after the first partitioning of the media. If you aren't backing up your data you are courting disaster. Btw, RAID is not a backup.

Edited December 5, 2020 by reece146

[BitMaster]

That's as well true.

 

What matters here is that people have been fooled.

 

Honesty is a rare treat.