Since no one is discussing it, here are the technical details of the change: >once the 12 GB SLC cache is exhausted, and their [write] performance [decreases]

Since no one is discussing it, here are the technical details of the change: >once the 12 GB SLC cache is exhausted, and their [write] performance [decreases] from 610 MBps (the original speed) [to] 390Mps. I am not saying what they did was ethical, but many consumers do not regularly write files of 12G and will not notice the change Here is a better article describing the situation: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wd-blue-sn550-ssd-performance-cut-in-half-slc-runs-out https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wd-blue-sn550-ssd-performa...