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No messing around with Frankenstein adapters and the potential conflicts between those different controllers, etc. Although I applaud those who continue to research in that area, I am thinking I will go in a different direction.
I mean, at that price, I could afford to buy a few and keep spares (already imaged with what we need) sitting on a shelf. For my use case (supporting a few truck mounted T4x and R5x in a small landscape company) they seem to be ideal. I get the benefits of an SSD (in my case, not looking for speed but rather eliminating moving parts due to the truck mount and resultant jostling about) for not much more than it costs to buy the least expensive new PATA HDD (currently $30-60 depending if you go brand name or not).
Are all the bad reports from old stock? Perhaps they have updated their firmware or hardware in newer versions. Or maybe it's a vocal minority, you know you always hear about failures, but what if there are thousands of people out there who are very happy with their Kingspec drives, and just never took the time to go back and leave positive comments at Amazon or wherever they bought from? Of course, that could all be wishful thinking on my part. But, like Fox Mulder, I want to believe!
Finally, I would like to add that the Mfr. offers a 2 year warranty, and the following specs:
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Write endurance 80years@10GBytes write and erase per day at 32GB
Read endurance unlimited
Wear-Leveling Algorithm Dynamic and static wear-leveling
Data Retention 10years at 25ºC
MTBF 1,000,000hours
ECC Supports BCH ECC 8bits or 15bits in 512 bytes
Bad Block Management Auto Bad Block Management in systemI want to hear everyone's honest opinion, especially if you have been using them and have had good experiences. My gut is telling me that may be an under-represented group. Of course I could be completely wrong.
