Comments on: Silicon Motion SM2256 Controller with Samsung TLC NAND Review

By: SLC forever

SLC forever — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 13:00:00 +0000

With the rise of TLC nand will come more unreliable SSDs that will expire faster. MLCs and even SLCs could have been made more affordable but the major manufacturers fking blew it. Goodbye SSD. Welcome back HDD.

By: David Wei

David Wei — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 07:37:00 +0000

In reply to Benjamin Hojnik.

If that’s the case, samsung will NOT allow them to mark it as Samsung, because it is NOT packaged and tested by them. Most likely they are unknown flash chip that were rejected as second or third grade stuff, sold as unmarked chip or bare die.

Most of the time those goes into no-name SSD or USB flash drive. Do you see a lot of the cheaper SSD have chips that is almost completely blank? Bingo!

I know because RAM is exactly like that, and I used to help a friend with his RAM wholesale business.

By: numeric

numeric — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 13:12:00 +0000

In reply to David Wei. Good job, reading between the lines! Did anyone else notice the FORSEE?

By: Benjamin Hojnik

Benjamin Hojnik — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 14:12:00 +0000

In reply to David Wei. I'm gussing foresee is packaging the nand (but bare dies are still from samsung) and building/assambling the board.

By: David Wei

David Wei — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 11:56:00 +0000

Have you notice the samsung sticker is warped and cooking off? I’m not aware of any Samsung chips that uses sticker as its label, actually, I don’t know ONE proper semiconductor company that does that.

The wording underneath the sticker says FORSEE, and that’s the trademark from another company:
https://www.foresee.cc/

So, what the heck are we testing anyways?