To buy or not to buy ( KingDian ? 60GB SSD )

[acolombo]

Hi, I've found this 60GB SSD for super cheap: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/2-5-SATA3-SSD-60GB/1940978716.html

I'd like to buy it for my old pc, to give it a little speed and to give it a disk (it currently doesn't have one because I got the hard drives on my latest pc).

The problem is the brand, wtf is it D: Would you buy it?

[LiveStyleGaming]

I myself stick to known brands... I personally wouldn't risk it lol, but that's just me 

[othertomperson]

Yeah I wouldn't.

 

And with normal brands (that are more expensive) I don't really recommend 60GB SSDs anyway. 128GB disks are only a little bit more expensive, and I would say the sweet spot is about 256 now.

[MrBucket101]

unless you plan on installing windows XP to that SSD, I wouldn't bother with it

[madscientist56]

yes its cheap but its price per gig isn't very good compared to other well known ssd's, get it if you want but i wouldn't.

[hojnikb]

JMF608 controller. Run away as fast as you can!

[acolombo]

JMF608 controller. Run away as fast as you can!

Ok thank you, this answer is just a little more technical than "I don't know that brand" so it's the best answer. Won't buy it for sure

[Dimwitted]

Don't trust the seller, don't trust the brand, don't trust the tech. This is the scrapings from the bottom of the barrel and way too small at that. So sure, why not?

[hojnikb]

And their specs are all wrong, since that particular controller isn't capable of more than 300MB/s reads. Pretty sure that benchmark posted isn't from that drive, because budget jmicron controllers aren't capable of such 4k speeds.
 

tl;Dr

avoid jmicron based ssds at all cost. Unless they come up with something substantially better.

[sato_slp]

Hello, I'll revive this topic because found on sale mSATA 32Gb SSD King Power brand dirves with the 2244LT/JMF608 controler, and cost only $10 (MSAT instead of mSATA will give a clue why), I don't worry much about longevity, as long as I want that SSD to re-use 2 old Pentium 4 and a Athon 64 as a linux HTPC and a retro arcade projects.

All this is background to my question, what's wrong with the named JMF608 controler? yes, I know that chip isn't reliable for a workhorse PC, but want to know the exact issue with this chip, does it dies after "X" number of cicles? it ramdonly works-stop working? is it slow in data read-write? I will never use those ultracheap SSD's for my main or even my gaming PC, but they're so cheap I had to purchase 1 to test it (by now I'm waiting for the mSATA to IDE adaptor to plug it into the P4). Thanks and best regards.

[Hobbamok]

Whats up with your hate everyone?

I bought it and I m happy.

Of course its not the best but 24 Euros isnt that much of a problem.

Restrospectively I should have gone with a bigger one, but for that price its wonderful.

[midix]

Yeah, but one Russian blogger in 2015 reported that his cheap KingDian died after 7 months of use. So, not sure if it's worth it unless you want to buy another one soon again.

 

Also Aliexpress product page says: "Controller:Marvell/SMI/JMF" - hm, not sure which one in the end is being used, I guess it's a lottery.

 

Which is a shame because I wanted to buy a cheap 60GB storage for EEEPC which will be used as a lightweight experimental Linux platform. 120GB would be overkill. But I would like it to serve at least 5 years with moderate usage.