Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs
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Re: Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs
#2That's one way to deal with the counterfeiting problem -- just counterfeit your own devices! It's what the "sort by lowest price first" market demands, I guess.
Re: Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs
#3Hey Ars, there is a global chip shortage right now. I doubt Samsung is doing this to screw over their customers, rather its either this or nothing.
I know Ars knows this because they allude to in bottom of article. Click-baity.
Re: Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs
#4Hey Ars, there is a global chip shortage right now. I doubt Samsung is doing this to screw over their customers, rather its either this or nothing. I know Ars knows this because they allude to in bottom of article. Click-baity.
No, that's a false dichotomy. They could've just made up a new name for it.
Re: Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs
#5Hey Ars, there is a global chip shortage right now. I doubt Samsung is doing this to screw over their customers, rather its either this or nothing. I know Ars knows this because they allude to in bottom of article. Click-baity.
No, that's a false dichotomy. They could've just made up a new name for it.
I work in hardware design. Almost all ICs are very very limited supply. In our own case we had to move from 512K MCU to 256K simply because lead times are now until Dec 2022 on the 512K version.
I'm really surprised this hasn't bubbled-up to normies yet. I suspect this Christmas is going to be a shocker.
Re: Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs
#6Hey Ars, there is a global chip shortage right now. I doubt Samsung is doing this to screw over their customers, rather its either this or nothing. I know Ars knows this because they allude to in bottom of article. Click-baity.
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 commit to introducing a new model number whenever any related published specifications are impacted"
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/silent-changes-to-we...
Re: Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs
#7Does anyone have a list of SSD manufacturers that don't do this? Are SK Hynix and Intel still reliable?
Re: Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, that's a false dichotomy. They could've just made up a new name for it.
I work in hardware design. Almost all ICs are very very limited supply. In our own case we had to move from 512K MCU to 256K simply because lead times are now until Dec 2022 on the 512K version. I'm really surprised this hasn't bubbled-up to normies yet. I suspect this Christmas is going to be a shocker.
That is both unnecessarily rude, and missing the point the parent post is making.
Companies want to use whatever they can get that's vaguely compatible with the current design. Because it's that or selling nothing for 12 more months.
Sure. But that is not an excuse for misleading the customer. Couldn't find any components wich perform equally well? Then it's a different SKU. Slap a suffix on the name, adjust the price as needed, and don't mix inventory.
Re: Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs
#9That's one way to deal with the counterfeiting problem -- just counterfeit your own devices! It's what the "sort by lowest price first" market demands, I guess.
Is Samsung the lowest price manufacturer? I've thought those are other manufacturers, and Samsung distinguishes itself through quality instead.
Re: Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs
#10Does anyone have a list of SSD manufacturers that don't do this? Are SK Hynix and Intel still reliable?
All manufacturers multi-source parts.
That will always have some very minor impact on power/reliability at least. The difference here is it makes a major difference.
See also:. Apple sourcing 4g modems from both intel and Qualcomm, and the performance being quite different so they disabled features of qualcomms chip to make them similar.