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Re:Samsung Is the Latest SSD Manufacturer Caught Cheating It... by dahfizz on Friday August 27, 2021 @01:20PM (#28330497)
Its amazing to see the disinformation at work. Samsung literally upgrades their 970 EVO SSDs with the 980 PRO controller, making the drive faster in almost every scenario. But media outlets who make a living generating outrage act like "Shamsung" is lying and cheating customers.

And people fall for it. Even people in this thread are calling for a class action lawsuit because they accidentally bought an upgraded 970 EVO - even though all advertised specs are correct. Its ridiculous.

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Re:Samsung Is the Latest SSD Manufacturer Caught Cheating It... by wmf on Friday August 27, 2021 @02:06PM (#28331107)
Even if the new controller is better they should have changed the product name (not just SKU).
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Re:Samsung Is the Latest SSD Manufacturer Caught Cheating It... by dahfizz on Friday August 27, 2021 @03:47PM (#28332231)
Why? Do you rebrand your software projects on every commit?

This is an implementation detail. For 99% of consumers, they look at the advertised performance numbers and make decisions from that. For those people, this change makes no difference.

The SKU is meant for the 1% who like to dig into what kind of flash is being used, what firmware the controller is running, etc. Renaming a product every time the internal implementation is touched would result in a super confusing user experience.

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Re:Samsung Is the Latest SSD Manufacturer Caught Cheating It... by wmf on Friday August 27, 2021 @03:59PM (#28332357)
For SSDs, the controller basically is the product; a different controller should have a different product name. I realize in this case there's only one workload that's slower, but I've learned that we can't give companies an inch on this topic.
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