This should be illegal… - Manufacturers are swapping SSD components

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Bait & switch is a common deception technique that's as old as time itself, but usually it's only seen being done by bad actors. What if I told you that this is happening today, right now, on sites like Amazon and Newegg, with some of the best selling SSDs?

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:50 The SX8200 Pro's claims
2:32 Reddit
3:16 What actually determines SSD performance?
4:52 Our drive variants
5:57 Benchmarks
7:06 Why is ADATA doing this?
8:42 The core issue
9:25 This has happened before
10:27 Should SSDs have a performance standard?
11:58 Outro