On 21-3-2012 18:40, Jeppe Øland wrote: >> I deployed about a dozen Kingston 64G SSDs about a >> year and a half ago (in laptops and desktops) and I've seen about a quarter >> of them fail with different symptoms in each case. Garbage > > Totally agree. I have gone through 2 Kingston 4GB industrial SSDs so > far - and it didn't take long either. They fail fast! (Now I'm using > the 3rd one with an embedded install ... it seems to stay alive when > nobody is writing to it).
The dirty little secret from Kingston is that they do not manufacture anything themselves. The situation with SD/CF and microSD cards is horrific. You can easily end up with cards without proper production information indicating it's either from a test production runup or overtime production. Neither of which you want. http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=1022 The intel drives are a bit more coherent since they take a far different approach to manufacturing, they have used either their own 10 channel controller design (X25-M/320 series) or the Marvell controller (520 series). They coupled that with their own joint venture IMFT flash. That is a very tightly coupled process. Samsung does it very similar. The PB22J was a own design and memory, as was the 430 and 830 series. Which is probably the biggest reason for it's success with the large OEMs like Dell and Apple. Regards, Seth _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
