Re: How it is possible

On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 at 16:12:25, micky <[email protected]> wrote (my 
responses usually follow points raised):
>How it is possible that one SSD is 17 times as fast as another but costs
>less?   Both are 240G.   Why would anyone buy the slower one (like I did
>last summer)?
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>In the comparison list of the first one, 4 of them side by side, half
>way to the bottom of the page, 2 others are the same speed as the first,
>but the second one is 17 times as fast.
>
>In a similar side-by-side comparison list on the second page, the same
>thing is true.  Only the PNY is so fast, and for less money.  Does PNY
>know something the others don't know.

Even leaving aside Jeff's point about bits versus bytes, speed isn't the 
only important parameter for and SSD: there are probably many, but the 
one that bugs me is the tolerated number of writes - which for the same 
size SSD in the same machine/use, more or less maps to lifetime. You 
also need to know how they behave when they reach their end of life: do 
they continue trying to work (I don't think any), switch to read-only, 
or just become a brick (at least one make/range does).
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