A number of storage companies including Adata, Crucial, and Western Digital have recently been caught shipping a superior SSD configuration to tech publications for positive reviews, only to swap these SKUs with lower-performing products once positive review coverage has been obtained. We've spoken out against this practice twice recently, but today we're revisiting the problem from a different angle. Enough time has passed since the events we're going to discuss that they may no longer be common knowledge, and although it feels absurd to begin a story with the above headline, that's the most straightforward way to describe the topic.
