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While I was cooking dinner after posting this, I came up with an awesome solution to OCZ's dilemma. They're driven to boost streaming large-block bandwidth so t
by blasdel 18y ago
While I was cooking dinner after posting this, I came up with an awesome solution to OCZ's dilemma. They're driven to boost streaming large-block bandwidth so that they have big numbers to advertise, but they're doing that at the expense of crippling random small writes. So they should do do this:
* Offer two different lines with the same hardware but differing firmwares optimized for each.
* Sell the IOPS-targeted one as 'Enterprise Grade' for %50 more.
* Release regular firmware updates for both, and ensure that only a trivial (but *WARRANTY VOIDING*)
modification keeps you from flashing your consumer drive with the 'enterprise' firmware.
* Bask in the glow of heavily-dugg tutorials about how to 'mod' your consumer drive for low-latencies
* Have vendors purchase your cheaper-than-intel 'Enterprise' drive for CYA reasons.
- jodrellblank 18y agoThat's an acceptable "solution" from OCZ's point of view, but it's a much worse solution from my POV. In order for me to get around the simplistic marketing of MB/s, that leaves me paying 50% more or voiding the warranty. I'd rather they fought simplistic marketing with honesty rather than profiteering.
- ars 18y agoAll they need to do is not enforce voiding the warranty, or make it possible to undetectably undo the change.
- blasdel 18y agoThe main point of the 'warranty voiding' would be to get a ton of hype from "hack your ssd" blogspam, which would instantly distinguish them in a crowded market. Being able to extract more money from PHBs is just gravy.