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Posted 30 June 2023
2TB fanxiang S101 2.5" SATA III 6Gb/s SSD, 3D TLC NAND, SLC Cache, Up to 550MB/s - £62.04 @ Amazon / Sold by LDCEMS
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About this deal
This deal is expired. Here are some options that might interest you:
The prices just keep getting sillier and sillier, but we don't mind, do we?
If you haven't heard of fanxiang, they are fairly new to the storage scene but have been pretty well reviewed by both tech sites and consumers.
Here's a little overview of the company and their products -
artofpc.com/fan…ew/
About this item
If you haven't heard of fanxiang, they are fairly new to the storage scene but have been pretty well reviewed by both tech sites and consumers.
Here's a little overview of the company and their products -
artofpc.com/fan…ew/
About this item
- Read and write speeds of up to 550/500MB/s (performance may vary depending on drive capacity, host device, operating system and application)
- Replace traditional mechanical hard drives, upgrade your laptop or desktop and reduce the time it takes to boot the operating system and open applications
- Features an SLC-accelerated cache area to improve read and write performance
- fanxiang S101 2TB has a 3-year and 600TBW (the starts from the date of purchase)
- Internal SSD compatible with Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7, Mac OS 10.4 or later, Linux 2.6.33 or later
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Edited by The.Fat.Cat, 30 June 2023
31 Comments
sorted byI bought one, tested and took it apart (breaking the seals so voiding my warranty) just to make sure there's nothing actually wrong with them.
The capacity test was fine, filled the drive entirely with MKV files, the first and last ones transferred played without any issues (as well as a few random ones I clicked on).
The Maxio-tech controller is nothing special, what you'd expect from a budget SATA SSD.
It has 4 x YMTC 512GB TLC NAND modules, 2 on each side -.
Like that German reviewer stated, there's no real info regarding these NAND modules and other reviewers can't seem to find out much either -
gall.dcinside.com/boa…011
post-smzdm-com.translate.goog/p/a…app
fanxiang do seem to use the same NAND in many of their SSD's.
I'm fairly certain the NAND is manufactured by YMTC as fanxiang usually use YMTC NAND in their SSD's, there's just no public info regarding these modules (yet).
YMTC QLC NAND always have a Q in the part number and these don't so they are likely TLC.
The main thing is the drive is 100% a perfectly fine 2TB SSD, I had no issues from creating partitions to confirming all data written to the drive is readable.
So, the persaon that made the video likely just got a faulty drive and instead of realising it was faulty, he started going on about it being fake...which is clearly isn't.
P.S.
Anyone want to buy a drive, 1 careful owner, low mileage? (edited)
One review on Amazon mentions this for the 1TB:
"Bought this drive as just want to speed up my old Acer, all looked good did a clean install of windows 10, speeded up the laptop great so all looked good.
I had 140Gb of data to transfer this is where the problem started it got half way through then started getting messages running out of space." (edited)
The Maxio-tech controller is nothing special, what you'd expect from a budget SATA SSD.
It has 4 x 512GB NAND modules, 2 on each side -.
Like that German reviewer stated, there's no real info regarding these NAND modules and other reviewers can't seem to find out much either -
gall.dcinside.com/boa…011
post-smzdm-com.translate.goog/p/a…app
They do seem to use the same NAND in many of their SSD's.
I'm fairly certain they are manufactured by YMTC as fanxiang usually use YMTC NAND in their SSD's, there's just no public info regarding these modules (yet).
The main thing is the drive is 100% a perfectly fine 2TB SSD, I had no issues from creating partitions to confirming all data written to the drive is readable.
So, as I said in the first place, he likely just got a faulty drive and instead of realising it was faulty, he started going on about it being fake...which is clearly isn't.
And there goes my warranty for this drive. (edited)
It's dispatched by Amazon anyway, so for the first year in the unlikely event of a problem you deal with them anyway. (edited)
nothing better to do at 3:30 in the morning?
But I can't say I've heard of this brand before or how reliable it is. (edited)
They've been around a few years now and have got a lot of positive reviews from both tech sites and consumers.
I think they may be a subsidiary of YMTC, a large Chinese silicon manufacturer (a bit like Crucial being a subsidiary of Micron, but on a much smaller scale). (edited)
Regretting buying 4 x 120GB SSDs last week now, even if they were only £6.98 each! (They are now £5.99 each! Can I get a refund on the difference from Amazon?)
While there are so few options they basically get to charge whatever they like as there are so few options.