MegaPixel
Developer by day, DAW tinkerer by night.
Hi,
Just letting people know, be careful when your buying a large size SSD, seems Samsung (who also sell their chips to other manufacturers to use in their products) are doing sneaky things like using the good (nand?) chips for the early part of the storage, but the cheaper or even B grade stuff for the last part of it.
I bought a 4TB EVO in August 2021, it failed after 1 month. Amazon sent a replacement and now this one is failing also.
I've not had any issues with any of my 1TB or 2TB EVO SSDs, rock solid and some 5+ years old and been driven every day 24x7x365 but just an FYI on the 4TB and above SSDs, be careful, there's a lot of crap out there at the moment, especially with the chip / rare earth material shortage.
FYI
Samsung QVO Drives = 3 year warranty (budget buyers, cheapest parts etc)
Samsung EVO Drives = 3 to 5 year warranty (middle ground)
Samsung PRO Drives = 5 year warranty (supposedly the best you can get from samsung, bar going NAS SSD RED PRO)
Just letting people know, be careful when your buying a large size SSD, seems Samsung (who also sell their chips to other manufacturers to use in their products) are doing sneaky things like using the good (nand?) chips for the early part of the storage, but the cheaper or even B grade stuff for the last part of it.
I bought a 4TB EVO in August 2021, it failed after 1 month. Amazon sent a replacement and now this one is failing also.
I've not had any issues with any of my 1TB or 2TB EVO SSDs, rock solid and some 5+ years old and been driven every day 24x7x365 but just an FYI on the 4TB and above SSDs, be careful, there's a lot of crap out there at the moment, especially with the chip / rare earth material shortage.
FYI
Samsung QVO Drives = 3 year warranty (budget buyers, cheapest parts etc)
Samsung EVO Drives = 3 to 5 year warranty (middle ground)
Samsung PRO Drives = 5 year warranty (supposedly the best you can get from samsung, bar going NAS SSD RED PRO)