980 PRO

Yes, Samsung changed their naming scheme with the 980 Pro in 2020, quietly switching from MLC to TLC while still charging similar prices to what they charged for previous MLC Pro drives. They quietly axed the Evo line at the same time, because with the Pro line using TLC there was no way to differen

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

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.

Did you ever update the firmware on these? Samsung 900 EVO and the 900 EVO Pro series are known to kill themselves. They're most common the Pro models and the most common with the 990 and 980, but still happen to the 970 models. My guess what causes the problem is that Samsung pushes the SSD chips t

You said you were using a Samsung 980 PRO. This had an infamous firmware issue that would kill it in a couple of months. It particularly affected the 2TB variant. Look for some articles to get more info on this and check if yours was affected. Here: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-980-pro-

Ah, they were lucky. I recently had a case with one of my clients where a Japanese model Panasonic laptop with an OEM version of the Samsung 980 Pro went read-only. But it went read-only because the SSD had bad firmware which burned up the NAND faster than expected. Client had some data corruption b