Interestingly Framework (the laptop company) ships exclusively WD SSDs, although I suppose you can bring your own SSD if you really want.
Though I wonder which other brands are trustable? Just yesterday I read a comment on another thread mentioning how Samsung’s firmware is subpar (which, having owned several other Samsung products, doesn’t surprise me).
And don't forget Hynix. They somewhat recently got into the B2C business, and while they command a premium, the SSDs both OEM and Retail I use from them have been very solid.
Tangential: I noticed a similar issue with the pricing of SSD drives offered on Dell's Precision Mobile Workstation laptops.
Perhaps Dell's SSDs are extra-awesome in some manner that I'm failing to recognize. But otherwise it makes way more sense to just buy your own SSD drives for those laptops, AFAICT.
It sucks that there's no real alternative to meticulous research before any purchase, but that's how it is.
WD's recent weirdness with the Red drives has pushed me to just spend the extra money for SSDs. I've been happy with Samsung's high-end products but I'm sure there are caveats.
The Framework laptop sorta has it -- it has 4 bays for 'modules' which are actually USB-C interfaces of some fast variety, and you can put a bootable 1TB SSD there.
It both shock and disgusts me how few laptops sold have SSDs in them. Even today only the very top end and very bottom end ships with SSDs (Netbooks, and Macbook Pros respectively).
Everything in the middle is purely HDD even with SSDs offered widely for the same amount of money if you're willing to lose storage (e.g. 256 GB SSD == 1 TB HDDs).
Come on Asus, Dell, and similar. Start offering SSDs across your entire range. I should get the choice of either a smaller/faster SSD or larger/slower HDD. It isn't a premium feature and hasn't been for a long time.
I doubt that other companies' supposedly "wider scope" actually exists or gives them advantages. Both Amazon and Google make their own SSDs and have the largest computer installations in the known universe. The fact that Samsung makes a lot of SSDs for laptops may not give them wider scope at all.
Though I wonder which other brands are trustable? Just yesterday I read a comment on another thread mentioning how Samsung’s firmware is subpar (which, having owned several other Samsung products, doesn’t surprise me).
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