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    News - Corsair changing model numbers on 25nm SSDs so "customers are clear about what

    High-end manufacturer plans to side step the 25nm SSD SNAFU by keeping customers in the loop.
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    Re: News - Corsair changing model numbers on 25nm SSDs so "customers are clear about

    Quote Originally Posted by HEXUS View Post
    High-end manufacturer plans to side step the 25nm SSD SNAFU by keeping customers in the loop.
    Is it fair to call this a SNAFU? That implies this is normal behaviour for OCZ.
    Don't get me wrong - what OCZ are doing is both (IMHO) illegal and wrong as it's outright lying in the product name, however I was unaware of them making a habit of doing this.
    Perhaps mongolian cluster**** would be a better description.
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    Re: News - Corsair changing model numbers on 25nm SSDs so "customers are clear about

    Smart move by Corsair.

    Lots of positive press about their "honesty" giving them free publicity.

    Good to see prices on SSDs continue the downward trend.

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    Re: News - Corsair changing model numbers on 25nm SSDs so "customers are clear about

    Quote Originally Posted by HEXUS View Post
    Hindsight's a wonderful thing, isn't it?
    Call me harsh, but I don't think you needed to be clairvoyant to realise that you might upset customers by selling them an SSD with lower usable/formatted capacity, that's slower as well but forgetting to tell them that you've changed the specs

    From a quick check on OCZ's website, they are still linking to reviews of the older model on the vertex 2 page. There is at least a clickable link now for the usable capacities, but for the "E" series, the main page still calls it the "120GB - OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G" (http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-ver...i-2-5-ssd.html)

    I can't see there is anything about that drive that is 120GB? Even their own linked sub page says the raw capacity is 128GB, usable capacity 115GB (http://www.ocztechnology.com//images..._breakdown.jpg) So isn't using 120 in the name misleading, and describing it as 120GB on the main product page verging on a trade description issue/false advertising issue?

    So yes, Corsair have done the decent thing, but quite frankly that's what I regard as the absolute minimum. If they really wanted to take the high ground, they could have give it a new brand name as well as model number.

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    Re: News - Corsair changing model numbers on 25nm SSDs so "customers are clear about

    Its nice to see Corsair being honest, personally I really don't care too much about benchmarks... they rarely if ever do anything more than indicate what 'real world' performance might be. However loosing more GB off the top of the drive is something that would concern me... if I am buying a drive that 115GB of actual usable storage then fine... but selling me 120Gb and then only giving me 115 is at best dishonest at worst its theft.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GaryRW View Post
    Call me harsh, but I don't think you needed to be clairvoyant to realise that you might upset customers by selling them an SSD with lower usable/formatted capacity, that's slower as well but forgetting to tell them that you've changed the specs

    From a quick check on OCZ's website, they are still linking to reviews of the older model on the vertex 2 page. There is at least a clickable link now for the usable capacities, but for the "E" series, the main page still calls it the "120GB - OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G" (http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-ver...i-2-5-ssd.html)

    I can't see there is anything about that drive that is 120GB? Even their own linked sub page says the raw capacity is 128GB, usable capacity 115GB (http://www.ocztechnology.com//images..._breakdown.jpg) So isn't using 120 in the name misleading, and describing it as 120GB on the main product page verging on a trade description issue/false advertising issue?

    So yes, Corsair have done the decent thing, but quite frankly that's what I regard as the absolute minimum. If they really wanted to take the high ground, they could have give it a new brand name as well as model number.
    Hear hear. This is basic stuff. Imagine you've always bought a certain brand of 1L milk cartons and the manufacturer decided to change something one day and started shipping only 950mL milk but in the same old cartons without changing anything in the labeling. You just don't do it and OCZ should suffer but that rarely happens (think nVidia with their faulty notebook GPUs)

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    Re: News - Corsair changing model numbers on 25nm SSDs so "customers are clear about

    I wonder if:-

    LCD manufacturers will quit the panel lottery game.

    Retailers will fess up to what revision they are selling in conjunction with the manufacturer putting information on the outside of the packaging so retailer don't have to open it up to find out.

    Hard drive manufacture will clearly state the number of platters in their drives. Western Digital I'm looking at you.

    PSU manufacturers will name the OEM and brand of critical components. Give a MTBF rating would be an indicator of quality.

    I could go on but I think that's more than enough.

    Oh wait don't Corsair chop and change the chips on their RAM products or am I thinking of somebody else. Did they not recently change the components and OEM for the PSU range on the exact same model numbers. Actually I remember now... they changed the model number to sound better (higher rating) but was rated at a lower temperature so in reality it's an inferior product. Corsair = honest I'm not so sure myself.
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