David Haller wrote: > Hello, an addendum without digging up the details ... > > On Tue, 17 Mar 2020, David Haller wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Mar 2020, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> I've put five Samsung SATA drives into various things in the past few >>> years with flawless results. Samsung is one of the big manufacturers >>> of flash chips, so I figure they should always end up with 1st choice >>> quality chips in their own drives... >> And they produce and use their own controllers, so they additionally >> know the ins and outs of those, i.e. they can easily optimize the >> whole SSD from Flash-Chip over controller up to the firmware... > [..] >> AFAIgathered, Samsung is the only one producing the whole product. > I guess Intel did (still does?) that too, but you'll have to check > that, ISTR that Intel now sells SSDs with non-Intel controllers and/or > non-Intel/"IM-Flash" flash-chips... Oh, wait, yes, Intel still does, > but those "pure Intel" SSDs come with a *very* hefty price (like 4 > times as much) and all the "normal" priced ones are those with either > and/or non Intel flash-chips and/or -controllers... But please go > check that yourselves though! > > The second thing I remembered: the german "c't"[2] magazine did a > torture test in late 2018 (IIRC), basically grabbing a few then > current SSDs and run their own testtool[1] on them until they died. Or > so was the plan. That was a "write till it dies" test. > > First of all: all SSD exceeded their specs, some IIRC just barely. The > bulk by a factor of 2 or more. ISTR some of those "just barely", but > wont name them without digging out the actual results, which I'll do > upon requests. > > The test had one problem though: a (IIRC) Samsung 850 Pro just refused > to die ;) They aborted the test after something like over 4 months > (all other drives had died inside of about a month) of _continous_ > writes (or write-verify cycles) to that one remaining SSD, which was > still happily chugging along... > > I do remember though, that even the Samsung EVO came out at the top of > the bunch > > (Note: c't does not award a "test-winner" or anything. Just data and > an conclusion aka "Fazit", the reader has to digest the data and make > up his own mind for _her/his_ own usecase). > > All IIRC, I can dig out and translate the details though! (and it's > month's later followup on what became of that Samsung ;) > > HTH, and please do PM (no need to clog the ML) if you want me to go > digging for the details, > -dnh > > [1] which name escapes me ATM, but tried and tested since 199[0-5] or > so ;) > > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%27t (that page is sadly woefully > outdated) >
I wouldn't mind seeing the info posted to the list myself. I'm interested and I suspect some others may be as well. After all, several people have SSDs now and buying good ones is something we all are interested in. Dale :-) :-) P. S. Sorry for the typo in the subject line. I just noticed I typed it in as SDD instead of SSD. I generally proof the body part but given my age, eyes getting bad, plus just being me, I may need to proof the subject line as well. o_O
