Review Inland Performance SSD Review: The Low-Performance Niche

[Admin]

We put the Inland Performance SSD through the wringer to see how it compared to the best storage drives on the market.

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[evdjj3j]

Am I the only person who gets a Bible Belt vibe from that brand name, Inland?

 

[gggplaya]

FYI, I've bought several of these and the PNY SSD utility seems to work on these. Perhaps these are rebranded drives?

 

[dimar]

For many cases I'd rather have no heat, more endurance, and less speed, as long as it's at least 500MB/s.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Anyone else wish these non-big label brands would focus on something that would really help differentiate them from the pack? As mentioned in the article the SK Hynix P31 and P41 drives are massive performers and are incredibly difficult to not recommend spending the very little extra money on when compared to a lower class drive like this, so they need to do something like start offering affordable "slow" 4 and 8TB drives for people who want them for the capacity.

 

[seanwebster]

FYI, I've bought several of these and the PNY SSD utility seems to work on these. Perhaps these are rebranded drives?

Most Phison controller-equipped SSDs are typically manufactured through Phison/their production partners in order to have some sort of warranty. They also hardly vary in fw changes. PNY, Inland, Corsair, Silicon Power Sabrent, Addlink, etc, are all selling what are essentially the same drives with different names/labels/heatsinks. Even the majority of Seagate's consumer SSDs are all Phison-based.

 

[Lafong]

Am I the only person who gets a Bible Belt vibe from that brand name, Inland?

Maybe. I don't understand the vibe.

Inland Steel was a major US corporation with thousands of employees throughout the 20th century. Out of Chicago. No connection to the Inland SSD outfit as far as I know.

 

[Viking2121]

I got the Inland 1TB and 500GB PCIE gen 4 m.2 SSD and its been plenty fast, I don't need the best speed around but its quite a lot faster than a sata SSD and faster than a lot of gen 3 stuff

 

[Neilbob]

The problem I have with most of these SSD reviews is that the tests generally seem to be all synthetic and don't show how these things actually perform relative to each other in any kind of real-world scenario - and from what I've seen previously that difference is so tiny as to be virtually unnoticeable, especially for the sorts of consumers that these are aimed at.

Puts cynical-old-codger hat on

Some people like to go on about how things like DirectStorage will make a massive difference - but will it really? It has to be programmed for, and it won't make things that already load fast much faster than they are.

 

[evdjj3j]

One of the ways Direct Storage is supposed to help is with decompression of assets. It will allow the decompression to be offloaded to a hardware accelerator or to the GPU for acceleration.