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Prime Members: 1TB ORICO Y20 3D NAND 2.5" SATA III Internal Solid State Drive

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ORICO Direct US Store via Amazon has for Prime Members: 1TB ORICO Y20 3D NAND 2.5" SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (Y20-1T) on sale for $47.99 - $9.60 w/ 20% promo code ORICOY2020 (applied at checkout) = $38.39. Shipping is free.

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About this Item:
  • Write Speed: Up to 500MB/s
  • Read Speed: Up to 480MB/s
  • 300TBW
  • No DRAM Cache

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ORICO Direct US Store via Amazon has for Prime Members: 1TB ORICO Y20 3D NAND 2.5" SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (Y20-1T) on sale for $47.99 - $9.60 w/ 20% promo code ORICOY2020 (applied at checkout) = $38.39. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member CoolReward560 for finding this deal.

About this Item:
  • Write Speed: Up to 500MB/s
  • Read Speed: Up to 480MB/s
  • 300TBW
  • No DRAM Cache

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  • About the deal:
    • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
    • This is $1.55 less than a previous Frontpage deal from November 2024.
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I'd personally avoid these drives even at this price. To the best of my knowledge orico ssds are regarded as low end even in their home market. I tried tracking down the specs for this model, and considering the hodgepodge of results I've found it seems like they're swapping around components. One reddit post indicates the controller for the y20 is the YeeStor YS9082HP (rebranded PS3111), while another which posted pictures of the 512gb version has the raymax rm1135t controller (appears to be a rebranded realtek controller, not sure which exact one the "t" model is). The nand chip on the 512gb y-20 is labeled as pf29f04t2ancqk1, which would be intel 144L qlc nand, but that directly contradicts the amazon listing where the orico y-20 is listed as having 64L nand. Either way, with an endurance rating of 300tbw for 1tb it's safe to assume this drive is qlc. Additionally, as a sata drive it doesn't support hmb (host memory buffer), meaning the downsides to a lack of dram are actually quite severe, not just in terms of performance but also in substantially worse longevity and reliability. I would not store anything even remotely important on this drive without extremely robust backups. Likewise, this drive shouldn't be use for anything even marginally performance sensitive, and if your use cases would be even slightly write intensive don't consider this drive.

Warranty information is either omitted or contradictory, the amazon listing has no warranty information whatsoever, the newegg listing for the same drive indicates a 1yr warranty in one place and a 3yr warranty in another, and the orico website indicates a 5yr warranty for "ssds". With extremely limited and contradictory details about a warranty provided, I'd operate under the assumption these drives functionally don't have a warranty period. Even if orico actually have a warranty that they'd be willing to honor, from what I've heard these Chinese manufacturers branching out into western markets usually require you to ship the product back to China at your expense, hence the warranty might as well not exist.
The website has no mention of warranty coverage or a means to make claims, that's pretty hard to consider when this isn't very much cheaper than name brand with similarly low end specs. If it were $100/4tb, I might change my tune, but that's not the case.
There are many CPU companies besides those two. Arm. Apple, Qualcomm and so on.

If you mean x86 CPUs than it because of patents.

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Good deal on these with the 20% off on the 1TB or 10% on the 2TB.
Purchased one Black Friday week and it started off running with temps 10-12C higher than you might expect before settling down to a more normal range. Monitor your drive's temps to make sure you get a good one. Speeds are on par with other brands in this price range.
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Quote from electrojunkie :
Good deal on these with the 20% off on the 1TB or 10% on the 2TB.
Purchased one Black Friday week and it started off running with temps 10-12C higher than you might expect before settling down to a more normal range. Monitor your drive's temps to make sure you get a good one. Speeds are on par with other brands in this price range.
Is it a generally well-known brand? I've never heard of it
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Quote from XeroxLover72 :
Is it a generally well-known brand? I've never heard of it
It's a chinese brand, primarily known for making enclosures/adapters. It seems like they're branching out into making actual drives, but they're probably just some generic white labeled product.
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Do these work pretty well with an external case?....something like this?

https://www.amazon.com/ORICO-Exte...8d9b61ffe3
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Is it a generally well-known brand? I've never heard of it
The website has no mention of warranty coverage or a means to make claims, that's pretty hard to consider when this isn't very much cheaper than name brand with similarly low end specs. If it were $100/4tb, I might change my tune, but that's not the case.
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I'd personally avoid these drives even at this price. To the best of my knowledge orico ssds are regarded as low end even in their home market. I tried tracking down the specs for this model, and considering the hodgepodge of results I've found it seems like they're swapping around components. One reddit post indicates the controller for the y20 is the YeeStor YS9082HP (rebranded PS3111), while another which posted pictures of the 512gb version has the raymax rm1135t controller (appears to be a rebranded realtek controller, not sure which exact one the "t" model is). The nand chip on the 512gb y-20 is labeled as pf29f04t2ancqk1, which would be intel 144L qlc nand, but that directly contradicts the amazon listing where the orico y-20 is listed as having 64L nand. Either way, with an endurance rating of 300tbw for 1tb it's safe to assume this drive is qlc. Additionally, as a sata drive it doesn't support hmb (host memory buffer), meaning the downsides to a lack of dram are actually quite severe, not just in terms of performance but also in substantially worse longevity and reliability. I would not store anything even remotely important on this drive without extremely robust backups. Likewise, this drive shouldn't be use for anything even marginally performance sensitive, and if your use cases would be even slightly write intensive don't consider this drive.

Warranty information is either omitted or contradictory, the amazon listing has no warranty information whatsoever, the newegg listing for the same drive indicates a 1yr warranty in one place and a 3yr warranty in another, and the orico website indicates a 5yr warranty for "ssds". With extremely limited and contradictory details about a warranty provided, I'd operate under the assumption these drives functionally don't have a warranty period. Even if orico actually have a warranty that they'd be willing to honor, from what I've heard these Chinese manufacturers branching out into western markets usually require you to ship the product back to China at your expense, hence the warranty might as well not exist.
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Quote from BeigeRoad455 :
I'd personally avoid these drives even at this price. To the best of my knowledge orico ssds are regarded as low end even in their home market. I tried tracking down the specs for this model, and considering the hodgepodge of results I've found it seems like they're swapping around components. One reddit post indicates the controller for the y20 is the YeeStor YS9082HP (rebranded PS3111), while another which posted pictures of the 512gb version has the raymax rm1135t controller (appears to be a rebranded realtek controller, not sure which exact one the "t" model is). The nand chip on the 512gb y-20 is labeled as pf29f04t2ancqk1, which would be intel 144L qlc nand, but that directly contradicts the amazon listing where the orico y-20 is listed as having 64L nand. Either way, with an endurance rating of 300tbw for 1tb it's safe to assume this drive is qlc. Additionally, as a sata drive it doesn't support hmb (host memory buffer), meaning the downsides to a lack of dram are actually quite severe, not just in terms of performance but also in substantially worse longevity and reliability. I would not store anything even remotely important on this drive without extremely robust backups. Likewise, this drive shouldn't be use for anything even marginally performance sensitive, and if your use cases would be even slightly write intensive don't consider this drive.

Warranty information is either omitted or contradictory, the amazon listing has no warranty information whatsoever, the newegg listing for the same drive indicates a 1yr warranty in one place and a 3yr warranty in another, and the orico website indicates a 5yr warranty for "ssds". With extremely limited and contradictory details about a warranty provided, I'd operate under the assumption these drives functionally don't have a warranty period. Even if orico actually have a warranty that they'd be willing to honor, from what I've heard these Chinese manufacturers branching out into western markets usually require you to ship the product back to China at your expense, hence the warranty might as well not exist.

Appreciate the thorough review. Getting this to use as dashcam storage / music. Hopefully it'll work for a couple of years.

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I replaced the 256GB HDD in an older desktop with this SSD drive, and have no issues or complaints. It works well and benchmarks slightly over 500MB/s.

According to the ORICO website, it has a 5 year warranty.
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Seems like a good price for a PS4 SSD upgrade, since those are still popular.
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newegg's deal was better without taxes
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Quote from BeigeRoad455 :
I'd personally avoid these drives even at this price. To the best of my knowledge orico ssds are regarded as low end even in their home market. I tried tracking down the specs for this model, and considering the hodgepodge of results I've found it seems like they're swapping around components. One reddit post indicates the controller for the y20 is the YeeStor YS9082HP (rebranded PS3111), while another which posted pictures of the 512gb version has the raymax rm1135t controller (appears to be a rebranded realtek controller, not sure which exact one the "t" model is). The nand chip on the 512gb y-20 is labeled as pf29f04t2ancqk1, which would be intel 144L qlc nand, but that directly contradicts the amazon listing where the orico y-20 is listed as having 64L nand. Either way, with an endurance rating of 300tbw for 1tb it's safe to assume this drive is qlc. Additionally, as a sata drive it doesn't support hmb (host memory buffer), meaning the downsides to a lack of dram are actually quite severe, not just in terms of performance but also in substantially worse longevity and reliability. I would not store anything even remotely important on this drive without extremely robust backups. Likewise, this drive shouldn't be use for anything even marginally performance sensitive, and if your use cases would be even slightly write intensive don't consider this drive.
Warranty information is either omitted or contradictory, the amazon listing has no warranty information whatsoever, the newegg listing for the same drive indicates a 1yr warranty in one place and a 3yr warranty in another, and the orico website indicates a 5yr warranty for "ssds". With extremely limited and contradictory details about a warranty provided, I'd operate under the assumption these drives functionally don't have a warranty period. Even if orico actually have a warranty that they'd be willing to honor, from what I've heard these Chinese manufacturers branching out into western markets usually require you to ship the product back to China at your expense, hence the warranty might as well not exist.
Thanks for the in depth review. Personally I will stick with a name brand until this gets more exposure. My old sandisk (western digital) just started dying at a little over 10 years.
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Quote from MrShawn :
Why is there no CPU company other than AMD an Intel? Because no one else can/will make them properly.
To be fair, CPUs are much more complex than storage or memory modules. And there are actually quite a few other companies making CPUs, it's just that most people haven't heard of them because they don't run Windows. However, that doesn't mean that this Orico drive isn't a load of crap.
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I used their nvme usb adapters but not ssd.

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