what's confusing me is that this is being sold as a "high end" drive. it's not. it's a drive engineered to be as cheap as possible, using lower quality components, that's being sold as "fast" only because it has compression. put compression (eg with zfs - i don't know what other file systems have transparent compression) on an intel drive and it should be better.
but the review hints that the two are linked. if they are, then perhaps it's not as simple as that.
sure, everyone knows that companies will spin things however they can (although i don't understand why some people - particularly americans - seem so fond of pointing this out; it's hardly the most positive aspect of capitalism).
but the review could have been a little more questioning. why not compare it to writing compressed data on an existing drive?
(and i'm sure i don't need to point out, to a connoisseur of free markets like yourself, that although they make a living convincing people to buy the latest product, and so work hand in glove with the manufacturers, they also have to compete for readers by reputation, which requires some level of integrity)
what's confusing me is that this is being sold as a "high end" drive. it's not. it's a drive engineered to be as cheap as possible, using lower quality components, that's being sold as "fast" only because it has compression. put compression (eg with zfs - i don't know what other file systems have transparent compression) on an intel drive and it should be better.
but the review hints that the two are linked. if they are, then perhaps it's not as simple as that.