Comment by headmelted

I’m not arguing for or against, I’m just pointing out that trading the possibility of data loss in the few seconds after a power cut for a difference of this magnitude actually makes sense in a lot of use cases.

My point above was that the same “cheat” (to use your word) could be applied to the unbranded SSD too, with similar performance gains.

I’m not giving Apple a pass for low flush performance, I’m saying there’s nothing I can see here that’s uniquely available to Apple that would prevent others from deferring flushes in the same way for similar performance gains - which would make sense in many cases.