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Re:I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLU... by goodpoint on Monday February 21, 2022 @05:51PM (#30421775)
LTT is more focused on entertaining the audience than providing thorough, professional testing.
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Re:I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLU... by Operyl on Monday February 21, 2022 @06:00PM (#30421868)
He’s recently pivoted a ton of his business to proper lab testing, and is hiring for it. It’ll be interesting to see, I think he might strike a better balance for those types of videos (I too am a bit tired of the clickbait nature these days).
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Re:I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLU... by geerlingguy on Monday February 21, 2022 @06:56PM (#30422366)
So he says; I wish the funding were available to other groups who already have a more proven / technical track record in the area, though.

Like... what if LTT bought out Anandtech instead of trying to spin up a new 'labs' to replicate what has largely been lost (but still exists to an extent) in a few dusty corners of the tech journalism world.

I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt, but there's so far been a lot of "just try me" and "we hired someone amazing" but I'll believe it when I see results!

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Re:I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLU... by ryan29 on Monday February 21, 2022 @07:41PM (#30422747)
AnandTech is owned [1] by a media conglomerate with a $4,000,000,000 USD market cap [2]. That's a lot of water bottles.

1. https://www.anandtech.com/show/13092/future-plc-to-acquire-c...

2. https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/quote/FUTR.L?p=FUTR.L&.tsrc=fin...

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Re:I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLU... by ggreg84 on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @04:10AM (#30425626)
And Anandtech doesn't allow anyone to reproduce their results, and their readers are their product, so...
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Re:I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLU... by kevincox on Monday February 21, 2022 @06:57PM (#30422371)
But audience is also important. If it is only super-technical sources that are reporting faulty drives then the manufactures won't care much. However if you get a very popular source that has a lot of audience, especially in the high-margin "gamer" vertical then all of a sudden the manufactures will care a lot.

So if LTT does start providing more objective benchmarks and reviews it could be a powerful market force.

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