Skyh3ck
Galvanizer
Storage Solutions Orico J-10 SSD
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chetansha
Juggernaut
Don’t expect it to last but I suppose it is worth it for less than 3k after card discount as my 1TB OneDrive drive.
Really get irritated with the selective OneDrive sync on my primary drive.
Was planning on buying a better orico model in the past & did a lot of online search for reviews & comments, what I found was that best case scenario orico drives are above avg but worst case scenario they die within 1-2 years. I have seen WD SN580 1TB sell for as low as ~4500 & that is a very good NVMe ssd so dropped the idea of getting orico drive for 1500 less until their reputation online increases substantially or their ssd are reviewed thoroughly by reputed tech sites. Also, it is QLC with no dram.
@Skyh3ck
Best to always check the specs for self, but yes it is not a good long term option.
In-depth review of 2TB model for the same SSD: https://tech4gamers.com/orico-m-2-ssd-enclosure-and-j10-2tb-ssd-review/
CasualGamer91
Forerunner
Not a particularly well written review from the SSD perspective considering it doesn't even mention the really poor endurance rating. However, there isn't much to see in general. It is probably using Intel QLC NAND from 2020-21 era considering Intel has sold off that business. It is using a really cheap Realtek controller. It has no DRAM. A cobbled together product of cheap components. Would never consider using it as a primary drive.
Apart from the general Amazon reviewers posting 5-star ones within a couple of days after a nudge, later reviews like the one below don't inspire much confidence.
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P3 Plus is also a QLC drive and this one uses much cheaper QLC NAND, so don't expect the rated 300 TBW. But that point is moot anyway since you will not get any warranty support.
Actually, the support is kind of available but it is not straight forward. You need to contact the importer as listed on amazon India product page which is "Tiger Pug Commerce Pvt.Ltd" & they should handle any warranty replacement but whatever info I found online, contacting them for warranty replacement won't be an easy task even if they are genuine.
P3 Plus has 3 years warranty while this drive has 5 years warranty but that doesn't mean this drive is better/more reliable than P3/Plus. Keep in mind that consistent & evm ssd also come with 5 years warranty but I would rather take crucial BX500 with 3 years warranty than those.
CasualGamer91
Forerunner
I have crucial 240gb sata ssd failure, but it was 6 years old and ran for many many hours as boot drive on my old pc
The older SATA drives were all SLC. Mine from Transcend installed in a tablet from 2014 that runs 24.x7 is still working fine.
CasualGamer91
Forerunner
But you know the problem, it is the worst kind of failure. Nothing bad was there on crystaldisk info and it was still at 80% left. Data loss happened when it was failed, thankfully those aren't very important..
Benchmarks mostly relying on the SLC cache will certainly meet the speed claims. At least it has a decent cache of 250 GB, after which it falls to 100 MBps speed. But that is provisioned from the overall NAND, so it will start slowing as the drive fills up.
In more recent models, they are using the even cheaper China-made Maxio controller though, which can be another issue on the reliability front in addition to the QLC NAND.
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Also, in this video you can see the speed falling after copying 200-300 GB. However, he is doing it on an empty drive. Once it is more than half full, the cache size keeps reducing until it falls faster to the actual NAND speed.
But we rarely write more than 100GBs at a time. When the SSD is idle, the cache would get emptied. Yeah when SSD is more than half full, speeds will drop, that is common across all QLC SSDs (80-160 MBps)View attachment 227138
Also, in this video you can see the speed falling after copying 200-300 GB. However, he is doing it on an empty drive. Once it is more than half full, the cache size keeps reducing until it falls faster to the actual NAND speed.