- Nov 24, 2010
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I wanted to post on the forum and make the members aware of possibly phony Intel SSD appearing on ebay. After buying 3 DC S4600 Series and having them fail in a short time I took one apart to compare the internals. Here are the results. First the exterior, though everything documentation wise appears to be there the font is the dead give away.
Look at the genuine SSD on the right, you can see a different font and the one that is used on all of the genuine Intel drives, then phony on the left you can see is different.
Inside, the genuine Intel drive uses memory chips with the Intel logo which also appears on the main board. The phony has no Intel designation on the board and the memory chips are
micron and not intel.
Failure: the 3 phonies all failed the same way and even though originally they had 100% health and less then 5 hours of time they all failed about 10 hour after starting to use them.
Once they fail you will immediately get a SMART failure suggesting immediate backup but you wont be able to access them correctly. Running Intel SSD tool kit on them will reflect almost 0 health and to contact your Intel distributor.
Since Intel no longer directly manufactures SSD and sold that division off they really didn't care. Anyway, here's some pictures, REAL on the Left, PHONY on the right. So moral of the story be very careful what you buy off eBay and only from long time members with proven performance.
phony vs genuine
Look at the genuine SSD on the right, you can see a different font and the one that is used on all of the genuine Intel drives, then phony on the left you can see is different.
Inside, the genuine Intel drive uses memory chips with the Intel logo which also appears on the main board. The phony has no Intel designation on the board and the memory chips are
micron and not intel.
Failure: the 3 phonies all failed the same way and even though originally they had 100% health and less then 5 hours of time they all failed about 10 hour after starting to use them.
Once they fail you will immediately get a SMART failure suggesting immediate backup but you wont be able to access them correctly. Running Intel SSD tool kit on them will reflect almost 0 health and to contact your Intel distributor.
Since Intel no longer directly manufactures SSD and sold that division off they really didn't care. Anyway, here's some pictures, REAL on the Left, PHONY on the right. So moral of the story be very careful what you buy off eBay and only from long time members with proven performance.
phony vs genuine
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