WD caught a lot of flack over that very issue a while back (one of several reasons I'm not a WD fan girl anymore). They sent out samples to reviewers, then changed the internal components to inferior ones in the production version.Lou77 wrote: ⤴Fri Feb 09, 2024 10:48 am ...It seems the manufacturers are prone to swap controllers and memory during various production runs, yet you will never see them do a news flash about that.We think we are buying a board with a Phison controller and it may not be, or may be a hobbled version of the controller...
Something that "bytes" my ample asset is SSD manufacturers don't make SSD support software, such as Samsung's Magician, that works with Linux.
Sabrent is just as guilty. Even SMART access is limited in Linux.