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i boot from Samsung 970 pro SSD it still has 97% life after 2+ years i did nothing special in terms of logs etc these articles came from a set of scaremongering reddit and forum posts from mainly one individual also people confuse their samsung drive issues with proxmox issues (there was a particula

Google sounds a bit off. An ssd like the samsung 970 pro that uses MLC nand has a tbw rating of 600 for a 512gb drive. So about 1170 full drive cycles. The 980 pro uses TLC nand and that has a tbw rating of 300 for the 512gb. Thats about 585 full drive cycles. Ssds use higher quality nands than memo

no. that's a samsung 970 pro (gen 3, high end for its time), samsung 990 pro (high end gen 4), sabrent rocket 4 plus (high end gen 4) and a sabrent rocket 4 original (midrange gen4). the affected drive controller is the phison e26, which is for gen5 drives. the two sabrent drives use the e18 and the

This is at least one area where Samsung, if not outright better, isn't worse than other manufacturers. Like when they changed the NAND configuration on the 970 EVO, they didn't just keep calling it the 970 EVO - they changed the model to the 970 EVO Plus. Same with the 990 EVO and 990 EVO Plus. And

The value 0x4 in the first attribute, Critical Warning, means the 3rd bit is set (bit 2). "If this bit is set to ‘1’, then the NVM subsystem reliability has been degraded due to significant media related errors or any internal error that degrades NVM subsystem reliability." - NVMe specifications. In

Yep, sadly. Originally I wanted to get the Steam Machine (aka GabeCube XD) and sell the Steamdeck again but after having seen the price? Yeah, no... Storage-wise I might be good? I managed to snatch a Samsung 970 Pro EVO with 2 TB a few years back during Black Friday on Amazon (currently using it as

If you do buy used, I only recommend buying from eBay under these conditions: Seller has a high rating, 100% positive Seller has a lot of ratings, generally safe number imo is 100+. Be sure to look over their reviews under the "As Seller" tab. Make sure the item has eBay guarantee on it When you rec

Samsung 970 Pro, this one has DRAM cache, DRAM cache is useful when you are transferring huge file or render something everyday

Yeah, as in the prev. Z170 postings I have Samsung 970 PRO 1TB, which is the last MLC of M.2(lol super high resell value $$$) and runs at PCIe 3.0 x4 speed. And I have THREE of them. in Z170 they were all connected to the chipset, and I ran it in RAID 0 which all bottlenecks at... 3.0 x4. So yeah, s

Yes, it seems today, the minimal optimal amount of RAM is 32GB, even the for DDR5 type, for gaming & other intensive computing tasks. At the same time, pricing has been insane, I was one of those who bought both 32 & 64GB 6000 M/T kits of the latest when prices dropped, well before Micron exited the