Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: ErikRS Newsgroups: uk.comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: New iMac belated upgrade Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 01:44:09 +0200 Organization: solani.org Message-ID: References: <0001HW.24C4553500014F0A70000716538F@News.Individual.NET> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2020 23:44:09 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="2542"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0 SeaMonkey/2.40 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:NWv2/TOs0cM6JAMwYRIDtmnUfJo= X-User-ID: eJwNxsEBwCAIA8CVCk2ijANY9h/B3uv4ytQLosDhrMRx7vrj1dvgDXk5sR5YfpEh2Xgcxp7UBRQsEKo= Xref: csiph.com uk.comp.sys.mac:145614 Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote: > Samsung are well known for making their own SSDs, and they're some of t= he > fastest and most reliable - top tier for domestic use. Fast yes, but from where do they get the chipsets? - I know that they=20 make some chipsets themselves, but also that they buy pre-made=20 components for most of their SSDs - just like OWC does it. If I=20 understand the OWC descriptions most of their shipsets are from either=20 Crucial or TechWorks. - And both Samsung and OWC have a variety of=20 different models - right from very cheap to very expensive. > Samsung don't make hard drives and don't pretend to. They almost exclus= ively > use Seagate in their external hard drives. Yes, now Samsung don't make harddisks anymore after they've sold their=20 HD division to the Seagate-WesternDigital concern. - I have indeed=20 earlier on seen too many Samsung SpinPoint HDs simply just break down so = people have lost all their data - and that on both Macs and Win-based PCs= =2E The first year or so after Seagate-WesternDigital bought the Samsung=20 division, Seagate - obviously also bought the already made SpinPoint=20 discs, since Seagate sold some discs under the name "Seagate SpinPoint"=20 to apprx. half the price of what a similar real Seagate disc would cost. = - Here in Denmark we could buy such a "Seagate SpinPoint" 2tb disc for=20 as little as apprx. =C2=A330 where the std. 2tb ST2000007AS would cost ne= arly=20 =C2=A360... Cheers, Erik Richard --=20 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erik Richard S=C3=B8rensen NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com Openoffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~