gene heskett wrote:
On 12/5/24 06:59, Klaus Singvogel wrote:
It can be fixed by a Firmware upgrade, and more recently charges of Samsung SSD 980 PRO are flashed/sold with a good Firmware out-of-the-box.
While I am saying that my results with earlier Samsung have been less than
glorious. triple layer nand's turning into half capacity for instance.
In my memory, the PRO version of Samsung SSDs (not: NVMe) survived the test of a reputable website - many years ago. All other SSDs died when the article was written, except the Samsung PRO SSD. Their test continued.
But, on the other hand, the regular version (no PRO in the name) of the Samsung SSD died first in the test.
I think the data written to the Samsung SSD in the test exceeded twice the MTBF rate, several hundred TB.
But I also noticed that the quality of Samsung SSDs has adapted to the quality of their competitors (not in the good way). I read a lot about the 980 PRO and the Firmware debacle, but also heard that the 990 PRO shouldn't be any better.