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the jazz mini is a beautiful and compact aluminum stand for your smartphone that even holds tablets up to eight inches click now to learn more to begin with this is an SST update and discussion about the practice of rebranding products as much as it is an overview of the a data SP 920 SSD so let's get into why this product exists if you're like me and you feel like amped about third-generation SandForce Drive since they were showing off at Computex 2013 by a date I know less then you'll be disappointed to know that despite a data as close relationship with Sam force this isn't a Sam force 3000 series drive and we'll have to wait a little bit longer for that but that doesn't mean it's a bad product it's not the first time we've seen SSD manufacturer source different controller technology and NAND to make sure that their products stay competitive I mean heck even Intel has done it so a dado went shopping and the SP 920 actually ended up using mostly the same internal guts as the brand new performance drive from crucial the m5 50 so at the core of the SP 920 is a Marvel 91-89 controller with a crucial design firmware and either 8 or 16 chips soldered to the PCB that feature microns a state of the art high-density 20 nanometer 128 gigabit NAND flash also present is a cluster of capacitors on the PCB that handle flushing data from the RAM cache to the non-volatile NAND flash in the event of an unexpected power loss this is a feature that is traditionally more common on enterprise drives where an unexpected power loss is actually much less likely to occur so it's great to see it implemented on a consumer drive as well now the choice of n550 Hardware enables a data to deliver a great set of features at a very competitive price point with solid performance you get trim and active garbage collection you get AES 256-bit hardware encryption with support for Microsoft II drive and then you get like smart and adaptive thermal monitoring protection and all that good stuff but can you just as easily get all this by buying a crucial m5 50 directly why does this product exist let's talk frankly about rebrands for a moment what's good and what's bad about them first the good things one is when they offer some kind of a tangible value add like a longer warranty or better accessories number two is that it's easy to find information on this drive and evaluate its usefulness for your needs because you can go and look at a review of one of the equivalent ones even if a site you like hasn't reviewed this exact one number three is that more competition does drive aggressive pricing for consumers and number four is that you get long-term support for the product that is in essence backed by a very large company with a vested interest in keeping each and every customer happy I mean an example of this is something like a laptop it's like eMachines doesn't invest the Rd to keep giving you graphics card driver updates for your budget desktop it's okay because ultimately it's an Nvidia graphics card and they're gonna support it in the long term anyway but what about the bad stuff when it causes confusion because there are so many options a customer doesn't know what to buy I see that as potentially harmful but many others would argue that more competition is always better so that ties into one of the positive points number two is when a rebrand ends up being slightly different in a way that's not very well documented in this case a data didn't do a particularly good job of calling out that there 128 gig and 256 gig models don't perform as well as the higher capacity ones or the crucial M 550 equivalence of that capacity review sites have performance numbers for each capacity broken down but a data site only lists the one terabyte drive this difference in performance is honestly something that the average person wouldn't notice without benchmarking the drive and it's due to the use of fewer higher density flash chips instead of more lower density chips and it saves a bit of cost but also reduces the drive sequential write and read speeds so I see it as something that should have been called out very very clearly but the bottom line is should you buy the SP 920 and the conclusion comes down to this power protection and class-leading encryption support make this drive a super safe place to put your data and the sp9 20 while not the best performing drive on the market is extremely price competitive compared directly with its twin brother the m5 50 a data delivers the same 7 millimeter to 9 millimeter adapter and three year warranty but throws in a Cronus migration software as a key on the back of the drive and a two and a half inch to three-and-a-half inch adapter something that crucial doesn't even offer in a kid anymore so - 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