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Sk Hynix storage drives are awful

We use Dell for both enterprise desktops and laptops. The 7k series towers that are issued to our facility were issued with decent hardware, but they all had these silver 250gb SSDs from SK Hynix. After about a month after implementation we had replaced about 6 of them for failures or corruption. One of the techs got suspicious and opened one of the SSD cases which was 3/4 empty and flash memory modules were mounted to tiny boards. So... cheap parts. I ordered a fleet of WD Blues and my team went through the whole environment over the course of a few months.

A few days ago I was issued some newer laptops for some managers. Within a week a user was complaining that one of the Precison 5560 laptops locking up, forcing them to do hard shutdowns and etc. Took a closer look, and Dell used these micro 256gb M.2 SK Hynix drives (BC501). There's not any thermal tape or anything, and they used a metal plate to extend the m.2 drive to be the full length of the slot for mounting. Chucked the drive and reimaged with a 1tb Samsung 990, and all the problems disappeared.

TLDR, SK Hynix drives are garbage and doesn't seem to matter the form factor. Dell is once again cutting corners.

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