populartDames | Staff posted Jul 16, 2025 05:09 PM
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populartDames | Staff posted Jul 16, 2025 05:09 PM
[Micro Center] 2TB Inland Gaming Performance Plus PCIe 4.0 NVMe Solid State Drive w/ Heatsink $102.39 + Free Pickup
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I tried looking around to see if their was a method to update the firmware and only seen inland post a firmware for a different ssd
I would contact inland directly to see if it is/was an issue and if a firmware update fixed it. Otherwise, gotta go off of reviews
Yes, shows it in the product image too so should fit straight in there
Unless things changed, can't recommend.
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By the time I copped on to how they were screwing up, I realized they had been the root of over a year of a slew of undiagnosed issues on my rig.
Will never buy Inland again. Better a drive break fully than break undetected like these did.
The only positive is after a 3.5 hour round trip up to the Boston Microcenter and an hour of haggling with the store manager, I got store credit for both drives. About had a stroke in that return process though.
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Cheap items were always accepted if you had a receipt in hand or on file.
Personally only rejected a few returns when a guy came in with no box, no receipt, and heavily used item.
Cheap items were always accepted if you had a receipt in hand or on file.
Personally only rejected a few returns when a guy came in with no box, no receipt, and heavily used item.
Bought those Inlands in large part for the '6 year warranty' but didn't really calculate how much of a PITA it would be to kick off that warranty. With traffic, it's a good 1.5 to 2 hours up through shit traffic, and YOU KNOW that a warranty return could very well not go your way so you're already on pins and needles just walking into the store as you're bargaining a ton of time and effort on whomever you get to help you out.
Had the receipts, boxes, everything. Was at first told 'nothing we can do' and I had to thread the needle between being a jerk and being a schmuck for a solid hour. At one point they tried to give me Inlands as replacement and I was like 'I'm sorry mate, I won't put one of those drives in my rig ever again, these two I'm returning crashed thousands of hours of work because they broke in such a weird way and I ain't putting myself in that situation again' - thankfully they didn't have the exact models in stock so had to resort to credit.
Again, overall I was appreciative of getting store credit, but regardless of the deal, I'm not getting anything more than a schlotsky from Microcenter given how much of an unknown returns are. Fine if you're 10 to 20 minutes away from the store, not fine if you had to move and find yourself hours away.
Anyway, I can't tell you how much these drives spiked thousands of hours of dev work, and they failed in the same way - I suspect it wasn't the Phison controller as it passed CrystalMark tests a hundred times over (spent a year chasing down ghosts on my rig), but the DRAM that failed on both drives.
I'd avoid this deal at all costs - even if you think you've skipped that lotto of failure, as others have mentioned there is no way to update firmware and that is problematic on its own.
That said, it is no longer available in my market and there are cheaper DRAM-less options now available.
I've always kept the data on this backed up and it is on a non-critical PC, so maybe I'm just lucky vs some other users who have posted.
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That said, it is no longer available in my market and there are cheaper DRAM-less options now available.
I've always kept the data on this backed up and it is on a non-critical PC, so maybe I'm just lucky vs some other users who have posted.
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