Model: Kingston Technology A400 480GB SATA III M.2 Internal SSD
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So your source is a 9 year old article that is a report on a user blog post that has now disappeared? And second hand reports of people complaining? If that was the standard for avoiding companies, you wouldn't be able to buy from anyone. Not Samsung, not Crucial, no5 WD. Nor would such blanket bans would be very practical across their product lines.
Like I said, almost every manufacturer has changed components - NAND or Controllers as they have gone through rapid changes.
I have an old PC that I breathed some life into with a Samsung EVO SSD 860 EVO 1TB[amazon.com] (purchased in Nov 2019 for $110. It's currently $140.)
That PC has sat unused for over a year, and I want to use that EVO 1TB in my primary computer for extra storage (slotting between my NVME main drive and HDD bulk storage), but I don't want to completely kill the old one. This $30 drive will be just fine in my old PC, and allow me to use the bigger/better drive in my new PC.
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So your source is a 9 year old article that is a report on a user blog post that has now disappeared? And second hand reports of people complaining? If that was the standard for avoiding companies, you wouldn't be able to buy from anyone. Not Samsung, not Crucial, no5 WD. Nor would such blanket bans would be very practical across their product lines.
Like I said, almost every manufacturer has changed components - NAND or Controllers as they have gone through rapid changes.
What you want to avoid are proven performance changes like the Adata or the SMR drive introduction.
What companies aren't on your blacklist?
The problem is not the company, but this line of drives. This is their trash line, they use whatever the cheapest components. It's could be downgraded to QLC NAND now.
The problem is not the company, but this line of drives. This is their trash line, they use whatever the cheapest components. It's could be downgraded to QLC NAND now.
That is a fair comment. This is a problem with almost all budget/low-tier products as they try to cut corners to keep price down. I have not recommended this product. But have used a lot of Kingston for a long time and they have been great with their lifetime warranty for memory even when that type of memory was no longer in production. Have used their SSDs since their first generation V series and those still work.
I was responding to the post that labeled the entire company as if it was (1) recent and (2) unique to two companies to avoid all products.
Adata is on my blacklist because they were the most eggregious in replacing reviewed product quickly with a demonstrabally low performance components, so I am sympathetic to that kind of decision.
But there are a lot of blogs and articles flying around just detecting a component change as evidence of fraud or scam. Samsung replaced a controller almost silently but it was to a newer controller from 4th Gen into a 3rd Gen.
There are valid reasons to replace components over a model's life time and changing the model name or number midway is expensive marketing and packaging-wise. So, I would judge what the impact of the change is before knee-jerking on the whole compant hearing of a component change.
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If you are basing it on change TBW of PNY CS3030, there was no component switching and there was no performance difference.
Kingston is one of the best brands around. PNY nvme drives are good value drives with excellent performance.
The only component switching I would worry about is when the performance gets downgraded. The only ones that have done that as far as I know is Adata.
Samsung and Crucial have switched controllers with no performance difference for example.
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Like I said, almost every manufacturer has changed components - NAND or Controllers as they have gone through rapid changes.
https://www.extremetech
What you want to avoid are proven performance changes like the Adata or the SMR drive introduction.
What companies aren't on your blacklist?
I have an old PC that I breathed some life into with a Samsung EVO SSD 860 EVO 1TB [amazon.com] (purchased in Nov 2019 for $110. It's currently $140.)
That PC has sat unused for over a year, and I want to use that EVO 1TB in my primary computer for extra storage (slotting between my NVME main drive and HDD bulk storage), but I don't want to completely kill the old one. This $30 drive will be just fine in my old PC, and allow me to use the bigger/better drive in my new PC.
Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank awdrifter
Like I said, almost every manufacturer has changed components - NAND or Controllers as they have gone through rapid changes.
https://www.extremetech
What you want to avoid are proven performance changes like the Adata or the SMR drive introduction.
What companies aren't on your blacklist?
I was responding to the post that labeled the entire company as if it was (1) recent and (2) unique to two companies to avoid all products.
Adata is on my blacklist because they were the most eggregious in replacing reviewed product quickly with a demonstrabally low performance components, so I am sympathetic to that kind of decision.
But there are a lot of blogs and articles flying around just detecting a component change as evidence of fraud or scam. Samsung replaced a controller almost silently but it was to a newer controller from 4th Gen into a 3rd Gen.
There are valid reasons to replace components over a model's life time and changing the model name or number midway is expensive marketing and packaging-wise. So, I would judge what the impact of the change is before knee-jerking on the whole compant hearing of a component change.