I wonder if this project is now more plausible (even with different name or dev) now that TPU has begun building an SSD database
I suspect that the SSD-Z project would be much harder to maintain than say, CPU-Z or GPU-Z.
There are basically 2 CPU vendors (AMD, Intel) and 2 chip vendors for graphics cards (AMD and Nvidia). And the system/OS/Windows normally recognizes your CPU or GPU. Easy to identify the CPU/GPU and get the right info. Compare that to SSDs, where you have an infinite number of brands, dozens of controller vendors, 5 or 6 flash NAND manufacturers + many other NAND suppliers that do their own testing and packaging. Brands don't publish hardware specs and SSDs don't usually expose their hardware ID to the system. How are you going to identify the hardware that comes with a drive? If someone has a Kingston NV1/NV2, a WD Green, an XPG Gammix SX8200 or a generic Chinese drive, how are you going to tell their controller and their flash? These SSDs have more variants than the influenza virus.
Maybe if you guys could get someone like VLO onboard, you could make it happen, but I still wouldn't get my hopes up.