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I had three drives go through RMA process with Samsung in 2026. Completely awful experience, most of the process occurs through text messaging. I paid $379 for a 2TB m2 Samsung Pro 980 in 2021, still within 5 year warranty period, after two months of having the drive, they offered me $179. When I as

It’s fair to be out of the loop. If you’re not a big MS shop or heavily into MDM there is a good chance you would never know. I had absolutely no idea about the 980 Pro bug (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-980-pro-ssd-failures-firmware-update) which I was told everyone knew about. I found

Είχα παρει εναν Samsung 980 pro και στο 8μηνο χαλασε.(Οχι δεν ειχα το ελαττωματικό firmware). Το στείλανε στην Samsung που το επιβεβαίωσε και διοτι ο 980 pro σταμάτησε να κυκλοφορεί μου δώσανε τσαμπα έναν 990 προ που ηταν λιγο πιο ακριβός αλλα δεν πλήρωσα καποια διαφορά

You're effectively trying to make an argument about this without providing proper details. So I'll do it for you. Smaller external HDDs that can be powered from a USB port are indeed built worse than larger HDDs which would require an external power supply to turn on (because they demand 12-volt pow

Yes, that can happen. Had a 980 Pro, that showed as healthy in CDI as well, but as it was benchmarking around 400MB/s read, 200MB/s write, it clearly had degraded, so I got it exchanged through the Samsung 5 year full warranty on SSDs.

Gamers are the worst at this too you see someone building a gaming PC... MUST BUY PCI GEN 5 drive with 14,500 write and read when in almost every test there is almost no percitable loading speed diffrence in a game from a gen3 NVME drive to the gen 4 let alone gen 5 007 first light a new next gen ti

Verify RAM pricing first, possibly actually buy modules to lock in whatever cost you're considering as "acceptable". DDR5 5600 SO-DIMMs, when I've looked, are far from being "discounted" when you don't already own them. In that situation - Not already owning RAM/being able to get it (actually) cheap

Yeah, as stated, Samsung OEM drives unfortunately dont work fully with Magician. This is a Lenovo drive, LEN(ovo) Part Number SSS0L25196, you can search for it. There's a few different part numbers on there. The actual drive is a PM9A1, pretty good one, here: https://www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/sa

I have a lot of bluetooth devices and this, perhaps in combination with Home Assistant, was causing bluetoothd to write a lot to the ssd, wearing it out pretty fast, projected use time only a few years. Instead of actually solving it I got a datacenter SSD that survives writes a lot better and moved

Had the same thought. The difference between a SATA SSD and a Samsung 980 Pro in a hunt train in FF14 is stark. But I think MMOs are a bit of an outlier with how hard they hammer the disk.