Dr-Kiev
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Sandforce has nothing to do with it. Intel uses Sandforece. I have two SSDs that are Sandforce; a G.Skill Sniper with a tera byte of data written to it and an Adata. So far they have been going strong.
SandForce is the main culprit . MCU's sf-12xx and sf-22xx families are affected . Those tons of FW updates they have released, couldn't fix issue with read\write errors on nands . Long before, Sandforce claimed , their core could deal with cheap and bad quality nands . A lot of developers including OCZ took that risk, and started to solder the cheapest nands. SSD prices became to decrease due of this . What do we have now? OCZ, who sold more than others sandforce based ssd drives, now bankrupt.
Intel released only two SSD drives based on SandForce core-Intel 520 and 330. It has opportunity to write its own FW for its ssd, nobody can, even Apple and Toshiba. And Intel also develops its own Nands chips, and can decide what quality chips to solder. Intel SSD isn't so cheap like OCZ .
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