Hello, an addendum without digging up the details ... On Tue, 17 Mar 2020, David Haller wrote: >On Tue, 17 Mar 2020, Grant Edwards wrote: >>I've put five Samsung SATA drives into various things in the past few >>years with flawless results. Samsung is one of the big manufacturers >>of flash chips, so I figure they should always end up with 1st choice >>quality chips in their own drives... > >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... [..] >AFAIgathered, Samsung is the only one producing the whole product.
I guess Intel did (still does?) that too, but you'll have to check that, ISTR that Intel now sells SSDs with non-Intel controllers and/or non-Intel/"IM-Flash" flash-chips... Oh, wait, yes, Intel still does, but those "pure Intel" SSDs come with a *very* hefty price (like 4 times as much) and all the "normal" priced ones are those with either and/or non Intel flash-chips and/or -controllers... But please go check that yourselves though! The second thing I remembered: the german "c't"[2] magazine did a torture test in late 2018 (IIRC), basically grabbing a few then current SSDs and run their own testtool[1] on them until they died. Or so was the plan. That was a "write till it dies" test. First of all: all SSD exceeded their specs, some IIRC just barely. The bulk by a factor of 2 or more. ISTR some of those "just barely", but wont name them without digging out the actual results, which I'll do upon requests. The test had one problem though: a (IIRC) Samsung 850 Pro just refused to die ;) They aborted the test after something like over 4 months (all other drives had died inside of about a month) of _continous_ writes (or write-verify cycles) to that one remaining SSD, which was still happily chugging along... I do remember though, that even the Samsung EVO came out at the top of the bunch (Note: c't does not award a "test-winner" or anything. Just data and an conclusion aka "Fazit", the reader has to digest the data and make up his own mind for _her/his_ own usecase). All IIRC, I can dig out and translate the details though! (and it's month's later followup on what became of that Samsung ;) HTH, and please do PM (no need to clog the ML) if you want me to go digging for the details, -dnh [1] which name escapes me ATM, but tried and tested since 199[0-5] or so ;) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%27t (that page is sadly woefully outdated) -- "If you are using an Macintosh e-mail program that is not from Microsoft, we recommend checking with that particular company. But most likely other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus replication" -- http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office/2001/virus_alert.asp