[gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

[Grant Edwards]

On 2020-03-17, David Haller <gentoo@×××××××.de> wrote:

> And they produce and use their own controllers, so they additionally
> know the ins and outs of those, i.e. they can easily optimize the
> whole SSD from Flash-Chip over controller up to the firmware...

Yep, that was definitely the gist of my (wishful) thinking when I
decided on Samsung.

> AFAIgathered, Samsung is the only one producing the whole product.
> Albeit, I heard rumours, that the various divisions of Samsung could
> as well be different manufacturers[1],

I've worked with smaller corporations where various seemingly
closely-related divisions might as well be on different planets.  But
at least there's chance that Samsung products can benefit from the
vertical/horizontal integration.

As it says on the coffee mug my neice gave me for christmas:

      Hold on, let me overthink this.

--
Grant