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Its the same company.

They marketed it as warranty so and so, speed such and such, and in fact its a piece of shit, and Samsung does not stand by its own product.

Even their newest Samsung EVO 850 is marketed as write speed ~500mb/s, but that is only true for the first 3gb, due to their usage of "TurboWriteCache", which means it has some kind of DRAM or faster real flash disk, and the rest of the disk is below 100mb/s in write speed.

Perhaps, they should not offer warranty on their "low-end consumer" drives, or lie in marketing/product specifications?

So that we as low-end consumers can make informed decisions? I bought SanDisk Extreme Pro instead, they are very fine disks, and did not cost much more than the evo. Recommend SanDisk strongly.

It's only good for 3gb bursts. Which is a ton of data to write to a consumer drive at one time. It's also 6gb/12gb for 500gb/1tb drives.

It's a perfectly fine tradeoff for a consumer drive. Just because it doesn't fit your use case doesn't make it junk.

What you define as ton of data for a consumer drive is your opinion only, there are many customers who do video editing work and really want/need the disks they buy to fulfill their stated technical specifications of write speed.

Samsung witheld/lied about the write speed, and only mentioned TurboWriteCache in hard-to-find support forums, because they know it matters for a meaningfully large segment of the market.

Its easy to state "about 250mb/s write speed, up to 500mb/s burst write speed" in marketing materials, if it didnt impact the sales as you state for consumers, why wouldnt they?

So you wouldn't use a high end Cisco router because they make the crappy "cisco small business" line?

No I would not. Whats to weird about that?

Juniper is nice, ExtremeNetworks, Pluribus etc, its not like I have to eat shit from a supplier just because they have labeled it "low end", "customer" grade and so on.

I don't know about routers but I've had very good experiences with Cisco's SMB switches like the SG500.

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