I have a complain on Illegear here.
Last week I took delivery of my Onyx notebook. Everything was as expected in terms of performance, thermals are a little high but still manageable. However 1 thing I'm pissed off is the SSD performance.

I opted for this option:


It is supposed to be delivering me 1800MB/s on writes as advertised. That is not the case, I'm only getting 700MB/s in crystaldiskmark. I have attempted to repeat this test, still the same, 700+ MB/s only.

Now suddenly you have offer for free upgrade to a Samsung SSD on purchase. So are you trying to piss your existing customer ?

This post has been edited by k!nex: Apr 6 2019, 07:40 PM


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I wish I knew what is it .
I did asked the staff that was doing the spec check with me during delivery. When I asked him the same question he told me it is Illegear's own brand SSD.

I only know it has a Phison SSD controller. The NAND chips I cant see clearly and it doesn't look like those DRAMless SSD at all.

It cannot be. Phison only makes the controller. There are only 6 NAND chips manufacturer on earth now. Intel, Micron, SK Hynix, Samsung, SanDisk and Toshiba.

Took me awhile to figure it out. I took out the SSD, cleaned the contact pins and reseat it.
Now its alot better.


You guys should have done a better QC check prior to delivery on this type of matter in future. I was doing a review on my unit and that really gave me a shock.

Anyways, thanks for replying. I'm disappointed now only got free Samsung PM981 SSD upgrade. It's just 1 week only after I bought my unit.
I roughly figure out that mine is using a Phison E12 controller with Toshiba 64-layer TLC NAND.

This post has been edited by k!nex: Apr 8 2019, 04:01 AM

Comparing 512GB versions:
Samsung PM981 random read -> 270k iops , random write -> 420k iops
The generic ssd random read -> 190k iops , random write -> 110k iops

It depends on your use case. If you are just surfing web and gaming , you wouldnt feel much difference. Power users wise, yes.

There are 2 m.2 slot. 1 of them can take pcie ssd only , another one can take both pcie and sata m.2 drive.

This post has been edited by k!nex: Apr 8 2019, 09:57 AM