Interesting.
I actually have an old BIWIN M.2 SATA drive in my pfSense router.
It's a 60GB unit.
One of these.
pfSense only uses like 4GB of the disk, and isnt disk intensive, so I didn't want to waste money on more SSD than I needed. I considered using a 8GB DOM or something like that, but those actually wound up costing more than this thing did.
I essentially bought it only because it was the smallest and cheapest SSD (that would fit in an m.2 slot or as a DOM, I didn't want a SATA drive with a power connector to worry about) on either Amazon or Newegg at the time of purchase in 2017.
It cost me ~$40 back in 2017, so I was happy it kept the costs down. It takes a little long to boot, but that doesn't bother me too much, and anyway, that might just be a pfSense thing and not a Biwin thing. Since then I have a spare 256GB Inland premium m.2 drive kicking around. If I have the spare time some day, I may just install that instead, and see if it speeds up the boots at all.
Smart is still reporting it at 100% life remaining, 6 years later, but I'm not sure if I trust the output, because at the same time it only says that there are 500113 LBA's written (244MB) on a drive that has 4GB of data on it. It also only claims to have 1464 power on hours (61 days), but has been in near 24/7 use since 2017
Hopefully their newer, more capable and pricier drives are better in this regard
To be fair to this drive, it has been in use 24/7 for almost 6 years now, which means it is doing orders of magnitude better than every OCZ drive I ever owned
