That's been fixed [1] by enabling TRIM for the eMMC as of Android 4.3 already. I wouldn't call the Kingston eMMC chips cheap, most of the time it's a buggy FTL

That's been fixed [1] by enabling TRIM for the eMMC as of Android 4.3 already. I wouldn't call the Kingston eMMC chips cheap, most of the time it's a buggy FTL (flash translation layer) that causes problems. Other manufacturers had more serious bugs that even caused data loss for the user (e.g. Samsung Galaxy S2 i9100/i777, Note n7000, etc. Cf. [2]). [1]: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Nexus-7-eMMC-controller-fstrim-TRIM-garbage-collection,23751.html http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Nexus-7-eMMC-controller-fst... [2]: https://plus.google.com/+AndrewDodd/posts/2eEd95oN1ZP https://plus.google.com/+AndrewDodd/posts/2eEd95oN1ZP