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  • Operandi - Friday, November 22, 2019 - link

    Biostar: a company who's product expertise is motherboards; their motherboards are garbage. Why would I choose Biostar for a storage solution?
  • Samus - Saturday, November 23, 2019 - link

    True. Because when I think reliability, I think Biostar...
  • deil - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link

    Well a lot of broken OEM from them. This ssd will not have it easy
  • shabby - Friday, November 22, 2019 - link

    Entry level... no prices.
    That's like saying you're releasing the fastest ssd's but without any numbers to back it up.
  • Freeb!rd - Friday, November 22, 2019 - link

    I'm assuming a truck load of NAND must have wreck by their manufacturing site and they got it for "free". Haven't bought a Biostar motherboard since the Athlon days and the specs on these drives put them in the "dirt cheap" entry level where there or many more established providers with a more dependable track record. With no Warranty, TBW or price listed this is less than meh, in fact I can't believe I wasted the time 1) reading the article and 2) commenting on it other than the fact that I am pissed off about #1.
  • Destoya - Sunday, November 24, 2019 - link

    This is identical to the reference design that SM released way back in Jan 2018 so it's even more boring that that. You'd probably never see this drive in the retail space; it likely only exists so Biostar can peddle it to their enterprise customers as a package deal with motherboards. Not that an ultra-budget, outdated, DRAM-less SSD is winning any awards for value added to a package deal.
  • dstarr3 - Friday, November 22, 2019 - link

    How is Biostar still around? I bought my first motherboard from them 15 years ago and it was garbage, and they haven't even improved since.
  • PeachNCream - Friday, November 22, 2019 - link

    I've gone through a couple of budget Biostar motherboards. Although they were very feature-limited, both worked perfectly well as the basis upon which low budget gaming desktops were built. They did the job expected of a motherboard in a forgettable, problem-free fashion. I think the accusations against the company are often somewhat exaggerated.
  • Samus - Saturday, November 23, 2019 - link

    While Biostar has improved (much like MSI) they're still bottom of the barrel for so many reasons. Poor support\BIOS updates, generally crappy layout (I'll never forget this one mATX board I dealt with that if you put a videocard in longer than 8" it eliminated the use of 2 SATA connectors...genius) and pretty poor choice of components. I've seen a lot of not-so-old Biostar (and Foxconn\Intel) boards with leaking caps that are <10 years old.

    Put into perspective I opened up an old server at a company a few years back that had a 90's era Asus Pentium III (it wasn't a BX, maybe 815 chipset? I think it was a P6B-T?) and still looked solid, ran fine, but the Adaptec SCSI card finally failed. 20 years old.
  • PeachNCream - Saturday, November 23, 2019 - link

    I absolutely have not used any Biostar board for that long. I replaced one after 5 years and another after 4 with the most recent going from 2012 to 2016 before getting upgraded so I can't speak for that kind of longevity. 20 years would have been highly unlikely from either of the two I owned. I do agree that layout decisions were sometimes dumb and BIOS updates were infrequent at best. They were and I think still are mediocre, but for the price, they did the job.
  • silencer12 - Thursday, November 28, 2019 - link

    I had a biostar TP35D2-A7 motherboard. I had asked others for input on the motherboard after it was bought and installed in a computer. Also to look out for future input when choosing a motherboard. My brother selected the biostar. One person provided input once he saw the floppy drive connector on the motherboard stating "What were they thinking????"

    I think i stopped using floppy drives then. Anyway, the motherboard did well for gaming and such.

    https://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/introduction....
  • hoohoo - Wednesday, January 15, 2020 - link

    I had an ATX X370 and a mini-ITX X370. THey were excellent boards, better & tighter RAM speed & timings than ASUS boards I also have. Problem is both Biostars corrupted their BIOS after about a year, and stopped working.

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