Fox2232:

There is large quantity of SATA SSDs that can't read/write nowhere near their specifications. When I got myself Patriot Burst 1TB, it could not write consistently more than 40MB/s of game files as I was transferring part of game library from NVMe. Drive simply gave 100% active time to windows and it shown like 900~2500ms response time. Then that thing had read speed mostly between 80~200MB/s before hitting 100% active time as I wanted to test how it moves (reads) data back to NVMe. I could not stand it and it had to go. Who's suing all those SSD manufacturers? I am pretty sure that this particular SSD is at similar level in practical use as HDD in article.

never saw that and I only had ssds (well known and proven Samsung) in my computers since a good 5 years (currently 6 of them + 3 nvme thanks to threadripper) so quick question fox2232 on which ports where those ssds connected ? because there's this, that I never see or hear mentioned in motherboards review (youtuber more and more become shills and sales people not giving you the right infos) yet another thing that I had to learn by experience asmedia sata ports are garbage, only good for HDDs p.s. what you describe sounds like a fake counterfeited SSD definitely not a real one, yes they exist especially on "we have no idea where our products come from" Amazon, a small buffer of read/write before a big performance drop is typical of counterfeited HDD/SSD/USB keys

kakiharaFRS:

never saw that and I only had ssds (well known and proven Samsung) in my computers since a good 5 years (currently 6 of them + 3 nvme thanks to threadripper) so quick question fox2232 on which ports where those ssds connected ? because there's this, that I never see or hear mentioned in motherboards review (youtuber more and more become shills and sales people not giving you the right infos) yet another thing that I had to learn by experience asmedia sata ports are garbage, only good for HDDs p.s. what you describe sounds like a fake counterfeited SSD definitely not a real one, yes they exist especially on "we have no idea where our products come from" Amazon

It was not caused by SATA port, I replaced smaller SSD with larger. Smaller had no issue in given SATA port. Neither it improved situation when I moved it to those "directly" connected to CPU. Same port now hosts well working 1TB SSD. And it was not counterfeited SSD either as I do not shop on places like Amazon. Software from Patriot did work with it and initial benchmarks were OK. It just crapped itself in real world... rather quickly.

Fox2232:

It was not caused by SATA port, I replaced smaller SSD with larger. Smaller had no issue in given SATA port. Neither it improved situation when I moved it to those "directly" connected to CPU. Same port now hosts well working 1TB SSD. And it was not counterfeited SSD either as I do not shop on places like Amazon. Software from Patriot did work with it and initial benchmarks were OK. It just crapped itself in real world... rather quickly.

ok sad for you then, it happens 🙁 in no way did I want to imply that you made a mistake or that it was your fault, I was myself a victim of it on an aftermarket car part where the inside of the box had fake circuitry it was doing nothing else than blink leds to simulate it working >< I also bought willingly an usb key that was sold 3$ and that I knew couldn't possibly be true and it wasn't lol a few years ago they made a survey and the failure rate of electronic hardware was 25% which is really high :/ overall my current SSDs total 73'953 hours of power on and over 252'575 Gbytes of write (that's 252Terabytes) without problems so I wouldn't call SSDs unreliable, some can be defective like everything EDIT : removed crystal diskinfo logs as the hide function doesn't work..just know that I have an SSD with 22'000hours still showing 100% health, all of them (samsungs) do actually except the nvme, the nvme almost brand new are already at 99%

Seems I lucked out, all the drives in my setup are EFRX. I read WD is replacing SMR drives for some customers, but it'd be a serious pita to have had to go that route.

I think this lawsuit is valid because users who used the newer WD Red NAS drives thought they it was the same drive as the drives they used in their storage server only to run into problems because it turned out the drives were not the same when they went to swap out a drive for whatever reason.

Astyanax:

I don't think this lawsuite is going to succeed, the drive is for better or worse, a hard drive.

You are missing the point. WD changed the specs of the drive without telling their customers which effected whatever storage device they were using with those drives. Which leads me to disagree with your statement because the Lawsuit is going to succeed because WD committed fraud here.