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Hello, |
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On Tue, 17 Mar 2020, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>I've put five Samsung SATA drives into various things in the past few |
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>years with flawless results. Samsung is one of the big manufacturers |
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>of flash chips, so I figure they should always end up with 1st choice |
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>quality chips in their own drives... |
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And they produce and use their own controllers, so they additionally |
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know the ins and outs of those, i.e. they can easily optimize the |
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whole SSD from Flash-Chip over controller up to the firmware... |
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Dunno if the same is true for Micron+Intel (IM Flash) / Crucial. Seems |
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no, as e.g. the Crucial MX500 uses a Silicon Motion controller, even |
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though Micron does (or did) produce controllers. Nor does WD, it seems. |
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AFAIgathered, Samsung is the only one producing the whole product. |
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Albeit, I heard rumours, that the various divisions of Samsung could |
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as well be different manufacturers[1], but how far apart the |
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Flash/Controller/SSD parts I have not an inkling ;) |
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HTH, |
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-dnh |
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[1] well, considering that includes washing-machines, ships and |
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whatnot ... ;) |
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May I ask a question? |
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