• @[email protected]
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    151 year ago

    I’ve soured on them a bit recently. The 980 Pro firmware bugs hit me on a bunch of machines.

    Samsung refuse to use the Linux Vendor Firmware Service that enables fwupd to apply firmware updates (even though Dell resold Samsung products receive updates here. Thanks Dell!).

    The official Samsung firmware updater image is/was (for years) broken on modern AMD platforms (guess what I was running all of those 10NVMes in?)

    Finally, I had to do [this bloody hack] (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Samsung_SSD_Firmware) on each machine to get their Firmware updated.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      My 980 2tb died due to the firmware and Samsung just refused to reply to any of my warranty requests.

      So I refused to buy their drives, and have since spent about 1k on 16TB of WD drives.

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        1 year ago

        We’re doing opposites here, ha. (And I’ve basically just happened to buy exactly what TheMadnessKing above is looking for, weird.)

        Bought a 980 Pro for main PC OS (due to reviews of reliability and long warranty, did not see info about firmware problems). Along with T7 Shield 2TB for movie backups. And stopped buying WD after many years (due to my recent Passport failure and public SanDisk failures). Wish us both luck, may we backup all the things thrice.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Thanks for the rec. Given, we are in similar situations, I think they should be great

          Will add them to my comparison list.