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Kingston and PNY caught bait-and-switching cheaper components after good reviews

Zero_Cool
By Zero_Cool
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Kingston was already in the wrong after their firmware was good and then they junked it.

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I just hope other manufactures don't practice this, very disingenuous if you ask me

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Kingston was already in the wrong after their firmware was good and then they junked it.

Kingston didn't change the firmware - they updated it (not what caused the problem, since firmware is free) but they change the NAND they used from synchronous to asynchronous. (this is seen in their V300 series)

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PNY Optima SSD's are so cheap now. Yes, it's not as good as before, but it's still so much faster than a HDD. 

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still misleading reviewers is not a good business practice, it would be like a car manufacture letting you test drive the model you want to buy, then swapping most of the components inside to make it cheaper. If we say that is ok, then what's to stop other companies in the tech industry from following suit.

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Really old news. This is why Kingston's V300 series has been unrecommended for so long on this board. It's not that it happened, it's that Kingston tried to let it slide. For PNY, they switched controllers and it's arguable that it improved the drive, but again, they never told anyone after the review samples had already been sent out. 

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These are two companies i do not trust, so this does not surprise me.

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Man did they also did that with their headset that's shameful bro

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