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I had a kingston drive go bad. It failed catastrophically, it did not degrade or become read-only. I lost everything on the drive.

Since then I don't buy off-brand drives. I usually use samsung drives and have had no problems.

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> Since then I don't buy off-brand drives

Off-brand? Did you know Kingston produces >60% of world's DRAM and >20% of SSDs?

Isn't it Kingston though who doesn't actually manufacture any chips?

I was fairly sure Kingston just slap their brand any old rubbish and sell it.

They buy from Kioxia and Sandisk who are not exactly off-brand either.

60% is highly unlikely

I made a mistake with "produces". The stat is specifically from here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220906005155/en/Kin... The title is actually "top third-party DRAM module supplier in the world".

I wonder is this "third-party" ranking meaningful. All first-party Samsung/Micron(Crucial)/Hynix ships a lot of modules and OEMs like Lenovo generally adopt them. I agree that Kingston is one of the top brands.

Same happened to me with a Samsung 850 EVO still under warranty. The only real "solution" is backups, backups, backups. Always has been.

When shopping around I usually consult the SSD spreadsheet to find the specs I want. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1B27_j9NDPU3cNlj2HKcr...

I stick to Samsung for PCIE4 and TLC+Marvel for anything else.

I've only had an old OCZ Agility 3 64gb die, but it had a cruel life of being a cctv storage drive and still lasted about 8 years.

My samsung 970 EVO threw bad blocks at me and destroyed windows install... at 90-something life left too

Kingston is definitely not an off-brand drive.

Anecdotally I've had more Samsung drives fail on me than any other brand. Everything from OEM drives to retail EVO drives.

We had that on Samsungs, just drive invisible to system, 850, 860, PRO and EVO and I suspect newer too, we just didn't had any fail yet

I've only had early Intel SSDs die on me. But they were early ones that were low capacity and cheap to backup.

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