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Troublingly, some controllers or associated firmwares appear to be considerably less reliable than others (judging from consumer reviews on, e.g., NewEgg.com). E.g. the Indilinx and JMicron ones seem especially suspect. Sandforce-based drives also look a little sketchy depending on the vendor (perhaps they're making stupid firmware modifications?). Even Intel appears to ship buggy firmware!
Controller Manufacturer | SSDs |
|---|---|
Marvell 88SS9174 | Intel 510 series, Plextor M2, Crucial M4 |
Intel | All Intel SSDs aside from the 510 series |
Samsung | Apparently Samsung drives, only |
Toshiba | Only consumer drive appears to be Kingston SNVP325 series (though also used by OEMS, e.g. Apple) |
Indilinx | Tons of random consumer drives (e.g. OCZ) |
JMicron | Tons of random consumer drives (e.g. Kingston, OCZ) |
Sandforce | Lots of random consumer drives |
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