Exactly my point.Dell are a brand like any other company out there who would want to make a profit using the least amount of resources. In this case, they're asking the makers of the SSD to water down some features in order to meet a price point and a profit scale. SKY Hynix have a number of drives that are watered down which can be found on Dell laptop's/prebuilts.
interesting... thanks for enlightening me Is Dell only suspect of such practice or OEMs like HP or Lenovo do that as well?No. Not from that direction. Dell rarely uses full aftermarket parts. Instead they'll contact OEMs and buy up all the B product or failed parts.
In this case, Samsung put together a 980Pro and tested it, but the silicon didn't cut it for 980Pro standards. So Samsung sells it to Dell as a Gen3 970 Evo Plus, which it does pass.
Dell has been doing that for years, and not just with Samsung. If you got an ATI x800 in your Dell 8400, the standard card was 256bit memory buss. The Dell version was 192bit. Same ATI card, but one of the chips failed, so traces were deliberately cut. X800 in name, X800 drivers, X800 bios, X800 everything except performance.
It's not that the 980Pro is cheaper to manufacture, it's that a failed 980Pro can't then be sold to the public, but a company like Dell can buy a watered down 980Pro - 970 Evo Plus because it's not for individual sale purposes.
All are doing sneaky things like that to cut costs, Using second grade components, mark them with own designation to cover up or order them modified enough to become proprietary. With shortage of chips and supply even some SSD manufacturers are doing dastardly things like changing control and memory chips to inferior ones but without SKU change so until checked properly you don't know exactly what you actually get.interesting... thanks for enlightening me Is Dell only suspect of such practice or OEMs like HP or Lenovo do that as well?
Some manufacturers were doing this long before current shortage conditions.With shortage of chips and supply even some SSD manufacturers are doing dastardly things like changing control and memory chips to inferior ones but without SKU change
This is a widespread practice called binning. Semiconductor manufacturing doesn't produce a 100% yield rate. There will be defects, but not every defect causes the part to become utterly useless. Sometimes this means you have to disable sections of the part. Sometimes this means it can't be clocked as high. Rather than just toss parts that still work, they'll just get shuffled into another product. This may be put into the hands of customers through retail channels, like video cards (practically all of the high/top end video cards sold to consumers are defective, as they have something disabled), or system builders contract hardware manufacturers to make some product for them to meet a pricing goal.interesting... thanks for enlightening me Is Dell only suspect of such practice or OEMs like HP or Lenovo do that as well?