[citation][nom]Energy96[/nom]If we all thought that way about any electronic, or in particular computer related technology, we would all still be using products from the 1970's. Nearly every technology has had issues at one point or another, especially when it is something "cutting edge". Refusing to adopt something newer and faster even after it's issue was totally rectified is stupid.There was never anything physically wrong with the sandforce hardware itself, it was all firmware related compatibility issues. Should it have been taken care of with more through testing in the lab before release to the public? Possibly, but there is only so much you can test in a lab, to get broad spectrum you have to just release it. Think about how MMO's and any game for that matter today is, they have beta tests that get 99% of the issues fixed, but its not until the broad spectrum release to the public that the remaining issues get found.The sandforce issue was also overblown, I'm not suggesting lots of people didn't have issues with them in the beginning, but the fact is more than 99% of people never had any issues at all with them. On a global scale it takes an extremely small percentage or people with issues to look like a huge amount of people on forums and tech support sites having trouble. Out of 13 people I know personally running sandforce controlled SSD's not one of them ever had an issue with it, myself included.Ironically, this reminds me of the somewhat recent issue Toyota had with accelerators supposedly sticking. This issue was reported by only a handful of people and nearly all in the end were found to be human error. None the less in the media it looked like Toyota's all had some serious flaw and people all believed it to the point that sales of Toyota's cratered. The smart people were the ones that went out and got a brand new Toyota for an awesome low price. Sandforce did have an actually compatibility issue with their firmware, but it affected a very small amount of people in the grand scheme of things and it was fixed pretty quickly.[/citation]
lets go back to that car analogy,
o they fixed the exploding part...
month later
well we thought they fixed it.
storage is the one thing i wont take unnecessary risks on. i do not like losing information and i despise the rma process.
correct me if im wrong, but firmware = hardware correct?
with an mmo i can accept bugs in the system, as they arent things that can cripple my computer, only things that can cripple my game play. that said, there are only 2 kinds of games where i accept bugs, open world games, and mmo, other than that i see bugs as lazy programming, and a general laziness that this generation of consoles ushered in when it comes to programming. you use to only see these kinds of bugs on pc games, but now even console games release with crap tons of bugs, at least more than they ever should have.
that 13 is 1:13 that comes to about 7.7% and than dealing with the firmware itself, never want to do that, just because of all the failed software updates i have had, my luck is that the firmware screws up the update and everything goes to hell fast.
the toyotas were shown exactly how to make the accelerator stick, just immagin a busy intersection, you cant stop for a stop light and everyone else is going 30, it wont end well.
at the very least i cant see a reason to trust a sandforce controller for quite a while.
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