On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 at 16:12:25, micky wrote (my
responses usually follow points raised):
How it is possible that one SSD is 17 times as fast as another but costs
less? Both are 240G. Why would anyone buy the slower one (like I did
last summer)?
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In the comparison list of the first one, 4 of them side by side, half
way to the bottom of the page, 2 others are the same speed as the first,
but the second one is 17 times as fast.

In a similar side-by-side comparison list on the second page, the same
thing is true. Only the PNY is so fast, and for less money. Does PNY
know something the others don't know.

Even leaving aside Jeff's point about bits versus bytes, speed isn't the
only important parameter for and SSD: there are probably many, but the
one that bugs me is the tolerated number of writes - which for the same
size SSD in the same machine/use, more or less maps to lifetime. You
also need to know how they behave when they reach their end of life: do
they continue trying to work (I don't think any), switch to read-only,
or just become a brick (at least one make/range does).
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