Well, the SDG1000 is a toy, as a reliable tool it's really crap. The only thing it's really good at is to create a jittery signal, which is nice for playing around with the jitter analysis tools of my scope, but that's about it.
The money I pad for the SDG1020 was not money well spent. So even if I had 'bricked' the damn thing this would not have been a huge loss (and I'm sure even then it could be revived by removing the flash and flashing it externally). So there was nothing bold in what I did.
Why are you giving the SDG1000 praise in this thread and bashing in the other thread?
You're pulling stuff out of context. For a start,
the posting you quoted is from 2013, and at that time some SDG1000 (including mine) were suffering from excessive jitter. Siglent later published instructions for a hardware fix, and that cured the problem. This most certainly isn't an issue for any SDG1000 bought today (or even in 2014).
The other thing you would probably only understand if you read all my postings regarding the SDG1000 and AWGs in general is that my requirements even for personal T&M gear are probably much more stringent than for the average hobbyist, and bluntly spoken that simply means that stuff in the low end class is unlikely to be anything more than a toy for me. I bought the SDG1020 mostly out of curiosity of what you can get for the few hundred Pounds the thing did cost at the time, which is why when I wrote the posting in 2013 I didn't really care if my experiment with the firmware would brick my SDG1020 or not. Well, it didn't, and I later fixed the jitter problem, and my old SDG1020 now serves with a happy beginner.
However, I'm also well aware that my own requirements aren't necessarily the same ones other people have, plus I know pretty well what you can get for your money. This also means that just because the SDG1000 didn't satisfy
my requirements (which it was unlikely to do anyways, even the more expensive Rigol DG1062z didn't do that!) doesn't mean it won't do for others. Considering what else is out there in this bottom-of-the-barrel price range, the SDG1000 is actually a pretty good offering.
So yeah, I wouldn't buy a Siglent SDG1000 (or a Rigol DG1000z) again, but that doesn't mean they're also a bad purchase for everyone else!