Sep 26, 2016 | Blog
SSD (Solid State Driver) Hardware Test is one of the more fun aspects of hardware lifecycles. Testing and validation methodologies will vary on a company-by-company basis, but the core principles are the same, Valuegist SSD Test before it release is much more that it: – Methodology: Test Engineers and Product Managers (the titles are variable) develop use case scenarios — defining the likely utilizations of the device, then rank them by how likely they are to occur in the field. More common uses (like everyday uses) will be tested most heavily, while obscure ones will often be explored only if a customer requires the feature/use case. – Procedure: After use-case scenarios are developed, test cases get written (often by non-testing engineers, so as to eliminate bias from testers and developers) to reflect these use cases. Test cases are laid-out in a step-by-step manner to guide the technician through what would (theoretically) occur in the field. Many companies have adopted automated testing, the complexity of which will vary based upon the task that must be accomplished: Where I worked, XML scripts were used to initiate tens of thousands of S3/S4 power cycles, then log the results to files. Both LSI’s Flash Components Division and Kingston mentioned that they heavily utilize automated testing, for instance: LSI conducts nightly automated testing to test interim code revisions; the results are shared with the developers each following morning, who then begin work on resolutions. However, some elements require technicians to manually initialize or observe; when testing laptops, for instance, it was impossible for my team to automatically log LCD failures — we needed human eyes...
Sep 23, 2016 | Blog
This week we headed down to the Valugist Technology headquarters in Guangdong China which is located about 30 minutes south of Guangzhou City on the high speed rail. It is based in the impressive Xian University Science Park. It is home to other massive tech companies including TSMC and Lite-on as well as many more. It’s been a while since I had made the journey down south from Guangzhou and the park has either grown massively or it’s much bigger than I remember from my earlier visits many years ago. Here the photos ~ And I’ve done quite a few factory tours over the years in Guangzhou and China and I’ve got to say that Valuegist’s factory was one of the cleanest and most comfortable that I’ve visited so far. They even had air conditioning! It’s interesting to consider things like this at the moment with a lot of pressure being applied to other companies such as Foxconn (Apple) who have issues with workplace quality...
Sep 8, 2016 | Blog
5.0 out of 5 starsDelivers more than promised By Ryan Dasso on December 20, 2015 Color: 250G Verified Purchase Excellent price/performance. Time will tell if it lasts as long as other drives, but based on the initial tests, this is easily comparable to top-tier SSD’s, such as Crucial’s MX200. The 4K results are especially impressive. Screenshots were taken when the drive was brand new. The benchmark data was literally the first thing ever written to the drive (after initializing it with GPT and 4096 sectors and formatting an NTFS partition, of course). Connection was SATA...
