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<blockquote data-quote="MacDefender" data-source="post: 928222" data-attributes="member: 83059">Yeah these days a SSD is like a mini computer in more ways than not, so there&#039;s a couple major components:&nbsp;- Who makes the NAND chips (usually Micron, Toshiba, Hynix)&nbsp;- Who makes the overall board design (In-house, or sometimes Toshiba and Samsung in particular will offer OEMs rebranded full stack SSDs)&nbsp;- Who makes the software on the SSD. SSD firmware manages what basically is the low-level filesystem of the SSD, which controls wear leveling, IO priority, error recovery, etc. Sometimes the software is done in house like at Apple/Intel/Samsung/HP, but and sometimes it&#039;s a mix. Apple used a lot of Toshiba drives 10 years ago but their firmware dumped from the SSD still wasn&#039;t identical to anything Toshiba sold to other manufacturers.&nbsp;- Who makes the DRAM or SoC that powers the brains of the SSD.I think the first 3 tend to be important when trying to decide if a generic branded SSD is equivalent to some major one. Unfortunately in today&#039;s world, manufacturers are doing a better and better job hiding this information.In your case, TweakTown has opened up your SSD and that&#039;s probably the best way to tell: <a href="https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/7418/zotac-premium-edition-240gb-sata-iii-ssd-review/index.html" target="_blank">Zotac Premium Edition 240GB SATA III SSD Review</a>The controller is indeed a Phison one, and the main NAND chips are Toshiba MLC. There&#039;s 128MB of RAM from Nanya on there too. It also looks identical to some other 240GB SSDs like this one: <a href="https://www.eteknix.com/silicon-power-slim-s60-240gb-solid-state-drive-review/" target="_blank">Silicon Power Slim S60 240GB Solid State Drive Review</a>But yeah long story short, the chip is only a small piece of the puzzle. So much software and overall hardware goes into how data gets stored on a NAND chip. It&#039;s like shopping for a NAS and only caring what brand hard drives it has. Two NASes can have identical WD Red drives but if one is running TrueNAS/FreeNAS with ZFS and the other is running one random Linux + Samba thing I threw together in a weekend, I&#039;m sure you&#039;ll have a preference which you trust more <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite116" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacDefender, post: 928222, member: 83059"] Yeah these days a SSD is like a mini computer in more ways than not, so there's a couple major components: - Who makes the NAND chips (usually Micron, Toshiba, Hynix) - Who makes the overall board design (In-house, or sometimes Toshiba and Samsung in particular will offer OEMs rebranded full stack SSDs) - Who makes the software on the SSD. SSD firmware manages what basically is the low-level filesystem of the SSD, which controls wear leveling, IO priority, error recovery, etc. Sometimes the software is done in house like at Apple/Intel/Samsung/HP, but and sometimes it's a mix. Apple used a lot of Toshiba drives 10 years ago but their firmware dumped from the SSD still wasn't identical to anything Toshiba sold to other manufacturers. - Who makes the DRAM or SoC that powers the brains of the SSD. I think the first 3 tend to be important when trying to decide if a generic branded SSD is equivalent to some major one. Unfortunately in today's world, manufacturers are doing a better and better job hiding this information. In your case, TweakTown has opened up your SSD and that's probably the best way to tell: [URL="https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/7418/zotac-premium-edition-240gb-sata-iii-ssd-review/index.html"]Zotac Premium Edition 240GB SATA III SSD Review[/URL] The controller is indeed a Phison one, and the main NAND chips are Toshiba MLC. There's 128MB of RAM from Nanya on there too. It also looks identical to some other 240GB SSDs like this one: [URL="https://www.eteknix.com/silicon-power-slim-s60-240gb-solid-state-drive-review/"]Silicon Power Slim S60 240GB Solid State Drive Review[/URL] But yeah long story short, the chip is only a small piece of the puzzle. So much software and overall hardware goes into how data gets stored on a NAND chip. It's like shopping for a NAS and only caring what brand hard drives it has. Two NASes can have identical WD Red drives but if one is running TrueNAS/FreeNAS with ZFS and the other is running one random Linux + Samba thing I threw together in a weekend, I'm sure you'll have a preference which you trust more :D [/QUOTE]

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