Not sure if that would happen for enterprise level drives intended to be purchases over the course of several years by enterprise customers as they expand/replace their drive pools.
Kingston doesn't explicitly guarantee a fixed BOM for the life of the product the way they do for server DRAM, but they are unlikely to swap out the NAND before the end of the 18-month product cycle. They have long term supply agreements in place with Intel as well as Toshiba, and have little to gain in this market segment from changing major components without incrementing the model number.
You said it right there: "Not sure if that would happen"
In that case do you pick the company with a unapologetic track record of pulling the stunt in the past or a company who sticks to a single SKU/Single BOM when making a product.
And you know what, I bought dozens of those old V300 SSDs and so far many years and TBs later all of them are still working just fine. Nothing more boring than a failed SSD no matter how fast.
It's true Kingston SSD's are pretty reliable but their track record of component consistancy among models is the worst in the industry. The V300 alone shipped with various controllers and NAND configurations.
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Gunbuster - Monday, March 18, 2019 - link
Hey Kingston, don't forget to switch to cheaper and slower NAND after the initial review honeymoon. ;)JoeyJoJo123 - Monday, March 18, 2019 - link
Not sure if that would happen for enterprise level drives intended to be purchases over the course of several years by enterprise customers as they expand/replace their drive pools.Billy Tallis - Monday, March 18, 2019 - link
Kingston doesn't explicitly guarantee a fixed BOM for the life of the product the way they do for server DRAM, but they are unlikely to swap out the NAND before the end of the 18-month product cycle. They have long term supply agreements in place with Intel as well as Toshiba, and have little to gain in this market segment from changing major components without incrementing the model number.Gunbuster - Tuesday, March 19, 2019 - link
You said it right there: "Not sure if that would happen"In that case do you pick the company with a unapologetic track record of pulling the stunt in the past or a company who sticks to a single SKU/Single BOM when making a product.
jabber - Monday, March 18, 2019 - link
And you know what, I bought dozens of those old V300 SSDs and so far many years and TBs later all of them are still working just fine. Nothing more boring than a failed SSD no matter how fast.Samus - Tuesday, March 19, 2019 - link
It's true Kingston SSD's are pretty reliable but their track record of component consistancy among models is the worst in the industry. The V300 alone shipped with various controllers and NAND configurations.jabber - Tuesday, March 19, 2019 - link
Yep that's why they were cheap and still outperforming the spinning rust antiques they replaced.Dug - Wednesday, March 20, 2019 - link
"The biggest cloud companies (Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc.) have largely moved over to NVMe SSDs"I would like to see this. I couldn't find any information on it.