SSD Write Endurance 25nm Vs 34nm

[Christopher]

I have read about and have seen a U.S. national TV news story on similar drives coming out of PRC.
No links I don't remember where I saw the news stories.
They ran the gammet from cheap clones of name brands all the way to a USB thumb drive wired up inside an SSD case.
Get home and find you have a 4GB SSD- well a thumb drive NAND inside anyway.
Seems like more work than it would be worth to the scammers.

I should point out that the product description didn't include the model... it had been de-labeled, and no mention of the controller was given in the product description. It was refurbished by Patriot, and all of their refurbished SSDs for sale have refurbished part numbers, like RF32SSD, where the RF stands for refurbished. It's a legit product, just not very fast. I was amazed that in 2009/2010 someone at Patriot thought that the Phison controller was going to be a good product.

No, the Phison controller just sucks. It's really just a Compact Flash/SD-style controller adapted for use in SSDs. The PS-100 is actually assembled in America like other Patriot products. It has Toshiba NAND (maybe the 40nm stuff) and the chassis is fantastically beautiful. There's just not much going on in the controller area. But the controller and NAND are made in Japan and the drive still has some kind of warranty.


Actually, I dated a girl for six months who had a really nice chassis too. She didn't did have much going on upstairs, either. She wasn't nearly as cheap as the refurbished Patriot though.