Hello Guys,
I know that the NVMe U.2 SSDs provides a lot more endurance and have enterprise grade features like PLP, and things but i’m looking to get the M.2 drives. I’ve heard a lot about the NVMes that uses Phison Controllers. I’m confused whether to use or not use the NVMe that has Phison Controller.
The SSD in the question is Micron 3500 and it seems like it uses PS5025-E25-53 controller. The Controller is used in Crucial T500 as well.
Any help is appreciated
Thanks
I purchased six of the Nextstorage 4TB drives (not a Phison controller) and they have a 5 year warranty and they are PCIe Gen 5 as well. And to be honest, one of the drives started to report “Media Errors” which is not good of course, however I reported it to the company, they shipped me a replacement with no fuss. They are out of Japan (I like Japanese Cars for reliability, Why not NVMe as well).
I tested the crap out of that “failed” NVMe drive, other than the few Media Errors reported, I could not get it to fail any actual test (Scrub, Short and Long test, Partition Magic Surface Test). I did remove it from the system and plat to figure out some other testing I could do on it because right now (maybe Badblocks but I hate doing that on a SSD), if I wasn’t looking at the SMART data, I would not have known about the reported errors. So are they real errors? Probably, but what do they mean?
I would suggest that you do some research specifically targeting the reliability of the drives you are looking at, not just the controller, and if you are looking at Gen 4 or Gen 5, these get hot! Gen 5 very hot!. My NVMe drives all came with larger heatsinks already mounted. So be attentive to Active Cooling, Passive Cooling likely will not be enough. Also ensure there is a good warranty. Look at how many years and the TBW (this is a big one). This more goes to the quality of the memory chips than the controller, because it isn’t just the controller you should be looking at, you should look at the entire package.
Post what your findings are, others will likely want to use those results, good and bad.
