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That was kind of a trashy product. Intel doesn't take their client/consumer SSD business very seriously these days, and that was only halfway an Intel SSD. The
by wtallis 6y ago
That was kind of a trashy product. Intel doesn't take their client/consumer SSD business very seriously these days, and that was only halfway an Intel SSD. The controller was Silicon Motion's first NVMe SSD controller, the drive had numerous firmware bugs, and it was probably also a bit of a dumping grounds for low-grade flash from Intel's first generation of 3D NAND. The successor to that drive switched from three bit per cell TLC NAND to four bit per cell QLC NAND and still managed to be a superior product in almost every way because the updated controller and firmware were so much more mature.
- ncmncm 6y agoThank you for the clue. All the reviews I had read claimed Intel and Samsung SSEs were bulletproof, and everybody else's were trash. For $300, it should have been a better product. Only 6 months later the competition was getting only $100 for them.
- syshum 6y agoSamsung Flash storage I have always had great success with Intel I would only use Enterprise Class gear, and even then would look to other vendors for storage Intel trades off their name, and puts out alot of crap at the lower end which they get away with because "No one ever got fired for buying intel" Alot of these big names do this....
- willis936 6y agoIt's funny to see Intel tracing IBM's steps. It's tempting to think they sick of being successful. I think the real answer is ignorance of IBM/Compaq, lack of wisdom, and, the key ingredient: hubris.
- Shared404 6y agoSeconding Samsung. I've only had good experiences with them in the past few years.
- bserge 6y agoIntel used to have good SSDs, but they seem to have given up on the consumer market. Samsung and Crucial are the only ones I'd trust today, based on my experience. Although looking at Samsung's smartphones and laptops, they might be skimping on quality, as well :/
- srtjstjsj 6y agoSad. I have a 9yr old Intel ssd that still benchmarks like new.
- eptcyka 6y agoSadly, I don't think it's even possible to buy consumer SLC drives these days.
- bleepblorp 6y ago'Consumer product' is a synonym for 'cheaply built crap sold at premium prices' these days. Much as how the introduction of SMR allowed for the prices of real hard drives to increase by 25% or more, the development of new data-destroying technologies for consumer SSDs has pushed the effective price for non-garbage SSD storage up to the $0.75-$1 USD per GB level of enterprise SSDs.
- wtallis 6y agoThat is ridiculously inaccurate. Consumer SSDs that are absolute overkill on performance and endurance are only half the price of the $0.75 per GB you claim as a price floor for good drives. Realistically, there's no reason for a consumer to spend even 20¢/GB, and there are tons of good drives well below that price which will not eat your data and will outlast the useful lifetime of several other components in your machine. There are reputable, well-behaved SATA SSDs at 10¢/GB.
- bleepblorp 6y agoThe entire point of this post is that consumer SSDs provide no data loss protection in the event of an unexpected hard reset or power loss. Data security is only available in far more costly enterprise SSDs.
- wtallis 6y agoYou've missed out on the substance of the discussion too, then. Expensive enterprise SSDs make crash-proof data protection automatic. Consumer SSDs require the host system's software to explicitly flush the write cache when necessary. This tradeoff works extremely well in practice, and consumer SSDs don't have serious data loss problems for consumer workloads. Enterprise workloads that are much more paranoid about syncing every single transaction cannot safely use consumer SSDs without unacceptable performance loss, but that certainly doesn't mean that consumer SSDs are playing fast and loose with your data safety.