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Kingston and PNY Caught Bait-and-Switching Cheaper Components After Good Reviews

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @02:08AM from the genuine-panaphonics dept.

An anonymous reader writes Over the past few months, we've seen a disturbing trend from first Kingston, and now PNY. Manufacturers are launching SSDs with one hardware specification, and then quietly changing the hardware configuration after reviews have gone out. The impacts have been somewhat different, but in both cases, unhappy customers are loudly complaining that they've been cheated, tricked into paying for a drive they otherwise wouldn't have purchased.

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Re: Immoral and Naive by Anonymous Coward · 2014-06-17 02:59 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Batch. Built. Hardware.
When they order a batch, they use supplies on the market that meet the published performance specs.
No evidence of anything. Non story.
Typical autism induced rants of rage sans context. Typical of Slashdot today, not so much pre 2000.