Per the title, four vendors were tested. Samsung was already mentioned as a non-loser, so it can't be one of the two losers (or else the title would be wrong and the SSDs would be from 3 vendors at most).
I didn't pay careful attention to the wording of the submitted title. I may have been confused because of the wording of the actual tweet: I tested a random selection of four NVMe SSDs from four vendors.
The word "random" meant to me that Samsung drives could have been selected twice. But, yes, then there wouldn't be four distinct vendors.
Unstated but implied by you is there are only two (major) Korean vendors to choose from.
So if Samsung is a Korean winner then Hynix must be the Korean loser. Which is now clear to me.
Is it possible there's a third (minor) Korean player? Could I possibly still have a chance? :)
> Is it possible there's a third (minor) Korean player? Could I possibly still have a chance? :)
Well supposedly Zalman (another Korean company) makes SSDs, but I don't think I've ever seen one in the wild. Their specialty is heatsinks and fans, last I checked.
