Imagine trying to ship a hardware product and then having these changes snuck in. Functionally it's no different than counterfeiting for companies with these SSD's in their BOM. Just plain fraudulent.
Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs
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#53I used to work in their SSD vertical on the software side. For what it's worth, SSD/memory business unit is their pride. They never used to cut corners and do rigorous testing to ensure their customers aren't screwed over. Even when a bad batch of SSDs were shipped by mistake, they would recall/refund all of them proactively. When ever a new model is released, they would first ship limited units to a set of SSD enthu…
It's data storage so it absolutely has to work every time. No one would buy a faulty SSD that loses their data.
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#54With the introduction of QLC consumer SSDs, with worse write endurance and life time but the same price as TLC, I took a look at used enterprise SSDs and never looked back. The only issues is the connectors. You need 8x PCI-E lanes (4x might work) or a SAS connector that nearly no consumer board has.
QLC is complete trash and should never be used outside of a WORM architecture in a larger pool. That they are trying to force it on consumers is criminal. Same with SMR.
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How are Samsung Smart TV’s garbage? I mean, they have ads and crap in some markets but so do all their competitors. I have a Samsung TV which has great picture quality, decent design and plenty of useful options for a very reasonable price.
In meant in terms of durability and quality. We used to by a lot of Samsung electronics (along with TVs) through employee discounts and the failure rates among the TVs are always high. So much so that we used to joke about that there is a "if condition" that some how causes the pcb to fail in first month after first year (TVs used to have 1 year warranty).
I mean, Sony also has a long reputation with similar issues — dubbed the Sony Timer
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How are Samsung Smart TV’s garbage? I mean, they have ads and crap in some markets but so do all their competitors. I have a Samsung TV which has great picture quality, decent design and plenty of useful options for a very reasonable price.
Samsung will give updates for a maximum of 5 years. So all the security holes or missing root certificates (for HTTPS connections) of the integrated browser stagnate after that. Then you have to use a raspberry PI or some other mini computer to get the same use out of it. And then why use a "smart" TV in the first place?
For the built-in spyware.
Re: Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs
#57I used to work in their SSD vertical on the software side. For what it's worth, SSD/memory business unit is their pride. They never used to cut corners and do rigorous testing to ensure their customers aren't screwed over. Even when a bad batch of SSDs were shipped by mistake, they would recall/refund all of them proactively. When ever a new model is released, they would first ship limited units to a set of SSD enthu…
Sad as their dumb TVs were (are) great.
Re: Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs
#58I used to work in their SSD vertical on the software side. For what it's worth, SSD/memory business unit is their pride. They never used to cut corners and do rigorous testing to ensure their customers aren't screwed over. Even when a bad batch of SSDs were shipped by mistake, they would recall/refund all of them proactively. When ever a new model is released, they would first ship limited units to a set of SSD enthu…
A serious question. I use a “Smart TV” without any internet connectivity whatsoever. Never let it connect to my WiFi, neither did I connect Ethernet. This way I am happily enjoying a high quality “dumb TV” that I always wanted.
Are all the complainers in HN really letting their TV connect to Internet (inspire of knowing all the crap TV manufacturers have been pulling all these years?!)
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
How are Samsung Smart TV’s garbage? I mean, they have ads and crap in some markets but so do all their competitors. I have a Samsung TV which has great picture quality, decent design and plenty of useful options for a very reasonable price.
Samsung will give updates for a maximum of 5 years. So all the security holes or missing root certificates (for HTTPS connections) of the integrated browser stagnate after that. Then you have to use a raspberry PI or some other mini computer to get the same use out of it. And then why use a "smart" TV in the first place?
I want all the smarts to be outside my display device. If my TV is acting smarter than what’s needed to do the HDCP handshake, I’m not going to be happy.
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No, that's a false dichotomy. They could've just made up a new name for it.
With is what WD are doing, having just been caught changing parts in a way that impacts performance > A Western Digital spokesperson confirmed to Ars that the company had replaced the NAND flash and updated the firmware in the WD Blue SN550 beginning in June 2021 and updated the drive's data sheet to reflect the changes. "For greater transparency going forward, if we make a change to an existing internal SSD, we comm…
NB: WD is doing this after being caught not doing this when they trashed the reputation of the WD Red line of drives.