Hacker News Reader

Comment by AlbertoGP | Hacker News Reader

Well, yes, but which were those 2 out of 4 vendors?

There were a few more listed deeper in the thread. Fyi, the nitter version is actually readable: https://nitter.net/xenadu02/status/1495693475584557056#m

Samsung 970 Evo Plus: MZ-V7S2T0, 2021.10: Pass

WD Red: WDS100T1R0C-68BDK0, 04Sept2021: Pass

Crucial P2 250GB CT250P2SSD8, FW P2CR046: Pass

Samsung 980 250GB MZ-V8V250, 2021/11/07: Pass

WD Black SN750 1TB WDS100T1B0E, 09Jan2022: Pass

WD Green SN350 240GB WDS240G20C, 02Aug2021: Pass

SK Hynix Gold P31 2TB SHGP31-2000GM-2, FW 31060C20: Fail

Sabrent Rocket 512 (Phison PH-SBT-RKT-303 controller, no version or date codes listed): Fail

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...

FWIW, I've had SK Hynix parts in my Dell laptops before.

I agree about Sabrent.

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.

Apple has been using SK Hynix products (some rebranded as their own) for years.

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.

SK Hynix and Sabrent: https://x.com/xenadu02/status/1496290369184874497?s=20

Did what, for those of us without Twitter accounts?

Did they Pass or Fail the flush test? (Saved or Lost data respectively?)

> Update 2: models that lost writes:

> SK Hynix Gold P31 2TB SHGP31-2000GM-2, FW 31060C20

> Sabrent Rocket 512 (Phison PH-SBT-RKT-303 controller, no version or date codes listed)

Looks like those two models failed.

Would like to note that these tweets are from Feb 22, 2022. This entire thread should have (2022) on it.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com