News Apple NAND Chips Discovered Hiding In Cheap SSDs

[Admin]

Chinese YouTuber stumbled upon Apple NAND when opening a ShineDisk SATA SSD.

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[caleebotron]

The headline “Apple NAND Chips Discovered Hiding In Cheap SSDs” is flat-out misleading. From the article: “In the case of the ShineDisk M667 SSD, we have no idea where the NAND came from.”

 

[RedBear87]

That's the risk of an off-brand SSD that sells for $13 in a market filled with knock-offs. You're better off looking for one of the best SSD deals on a name brand drive.

There are also risks when buying some of those "best" SSDs, you know. Just remember the whole 980 Pro shamble and more recently the issues with some WD external SSDs that are leading to a class action. At the end of the day there are always risks with any storage option, so one should archive/backup stuff that is seriously important; on the other hand, when it comes to storing data that is not important, a cheap Chinese no brand SSD can be useful, for instance if you want to upgrade an old PC/laptop that you're going to use only as secondary device (using the cloud to share your stuff).

 

[Loadedaxe]

The headline “Apple NAND Chips Discovered Hiding In Cheap SSDs” is flat-out misleading. From the article: “In the case of the ShineDisk M667 SSD, we have no idea where the NAND came from.”

100% agree, the headline is a little misleading.

 

[ezst036]

Apple does a disservice to its customers by aggressively making everything proprietary if not soldered on in an era where that's just not needed anymore.

The amount of profit they make off of the rubes because of this is insane.

 

[scottslayer]

"Alleged" by literally no one

 

[tomspath]

13 $ sounds HIGH to me.
at Amazon Canada you can get
PATRIOT brand 128gb SSD for 11$
and it is FREE delivery

China is 13$ and
you have to pay through your nose for shipping

Get ripped off in Amazon Canada , it is a LOT CHEAPER
go for it and buy them for around 9$ in batches of 10.

 

[peachpuff]

100% agree, the headline is a little misleading.

Its all for the clicks!
Apple made nand from Tesla self driving Cybertruck discovered on the moon for $13!

 

[gg83]

There are also risks when buying some of those "best" SSDs, you know. Just remember the whole 980 Pro shamble and more recently the issues with some WD external SSDs that are leading to a class action. At the end of the day there are always risks with any storage option, so one should archive/backup stuff that is seriously important; on the other hand, when it comes to storing data that is not important, a cheap Chinese no brand SSD can be useful, for instance if you want to upgrade an old PC/laptop that you're going to use only as secondary device (using the cloud to share your stuff).

I disagree completely. The major brands at least have warranty coverage. Samsung and WD can be sued in court. The knockoff brands do not. You might as well burn your money.

 

[RedBear87]

I disagree completely. The major brands at least have warranty coverage. Samsung and WD can be sued in court. The knockoff brands do not. You might as well burn your money.

If we're going by anecdotes like the one in the article plenty of people used similar drives for years without issues, so you're simply taking your chance, not burning your money. For instance, buying an expensive Samsung M2 SATA drive like the 860 EVO, because your old laptop comes with an M2 slot that doesn't support NVMe (I'm talking from experience, specifically it's a 2018 Asus Vivobook), means that you're throwing money away for something that you're going to use only occasionally and that, at best, you could eventually recycle only as an external storage, if that laptop will break down or you won't need it any more (who's going to waste a good M2 slot for a SATA drive on a modern PC?). A similar argument might be done with a cheap 128GB 2.5" SATA drive that you could want to throw inside an old desktop as a boot drive, are you going to ever use it for anything else? Why should you go for one of those "best" SSD drives?

Mind you, I wouldn't use drives from similar no brands for my main PC, I actually have two 970 EVO in my main PC (one 1TB and one 512GB drive), but I see no issue using similar drives for giving a life extension to old PCs/laptops that are still not completely useless. Also, let's be honest here, Tom's Hardware is doing advertising with those suggestions of recommended drives.

 

[dd8241]

Chinese YouTuber stumbled upon Apple NAND when opening a ShineDisk SATA SSD.

Apple NAND Chips Discovered Hiding In Cheap SSDs : Read more

The headline “Apple NAND Chips Discovered Hiding In Cheap SSDs” is flat-out misleading. From the article: “In the case of the ShineDisk M667 SSD, we have no idea where the NAND came from.”

I like tomshardware.
Please don't convert tomshardware to a content farm.
I hate misleading headline.