Iโm guessing the silicon was fabbed in Taiwan/China/South Korea and shipped to Poland for final assembly. If they wanted to optimise for labour costs, they could have had the boards soldered in the Far East and merely placed in the plastic enclosures by workers on Polish wages and still qualify as โassembled and tested in Polandโ
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chips and bare pcbs are fabbed in taiwan/sk as you could expect, but soldering and further steps happen in poland. here you have some photos from inside their tiny factory https://www.komputerswiat.pl/nauka-i-technika/w-polsce-znajduje-sie-jedyna-w-europie-fabryka-pamieci-jest-co-podziwiac/x4kce8e
Or just placed the metal hinge-cap in Poland and call it assembled
Can confirm, that happens with made in Germany a lot.
Yup, I have goodram as my RAM. Works just as well as any other RAM.
I'm pretty sure there are actual manufacturing steps going on in Poland and it's not just some labelling. Sure, not the silicone but there's more to RAM than just the chips.
i have a 32 GB model
You can get 1TB USB sticks for like 7 Euro at AliExpress. So if you ever need 8GB, shop there.
Be warned: Those are scams. Cheap 1TB USB sticks do not exist. They will display in your computer as 1TB by tricking your OS. They are usually 2GB of real size, but you cannot trust usb like that, for storing actual data not even for few GB they actually give you. This USB will also pretend to write data to it and throw it away. People lost their backups because they assumed this USB was real.
Source: I bough one, analyzed it and researched the topic.
Yeah, sure, let's try actually storing more than... hmm... I'll be generous and say 16GB of data and see what happens 0-0
It is rather trivial to flash the firmware on the USB to have it report as whatever capacity to the OS.
That was the joke.
/s
And support a gross company. No thanks.
I don't trust my data on garbage from alie
AliExpress wouldn't be assembled in the EU, surely?
They will label the drives for minimal additional cost, just make them print "assembled in EU".
And surely that would be falsely labelled, right? That price per GB is insane. You mean โฌ70?
And surely that would be falsely labelled, right?
I'm pretty sure that was the joke, considering the final sentence.
Oh, I thought they meant "so 8 GB would be even cheaper".
I wooshed hard.