Comment by dboreham

2 years ago

So...vendors no sane person would store valuable data on their drives were the only ones that failed. The sound of a dog biting a man...

SK Hynix is the #3 flash manufacturer (acquired Intel's NAND biz), and their RAM is quite decent. i wouldn't think twice about buying if it wasn't for this report.

  • Hynix's flash is just fine. It's the controller at fault for this.

    • In one of the tweets he says another drive with the same controller passed so it's not just the controller

I would expect the world's second largest DRAM manufacturer to have trustworthy memory products.

Pretty much every brand uses phison controllers in at least some of their products, even wd/samsung/intel who design controllers in house use them for their cheapest offerings because phison is all about making the cheapest product possible.