970 EVO

I read that a lot, but my Samsung 970 EVO 1TB still has only 1% wearout, it's running for about 3 years now. Are only cheap drives affected with low TBW?

Yeah, in short, these are the crème de la crème of SSDs and what every data center and AI slop shop is gunning for. These are basically considered enterprise class devices these days and price reflects it. DRAM cacheless SSDs are a lot more affordable with write penalties that may legitimately cause

i feel you on this one - same thing happened to my samsung 970 evo after three years. that red highlight usually means the bios sees the drive but can't boot from it. first thing - grab a usb stick and make a bootable hirens bootcd pe on another pc to test the ssd health. samsung magician software c