To be fair, Samsung has really only been part if the equation since SSDs became a thing. In the spinning platter era, if you wanted reliability it was either WD or Segate.
Earlier this year they had major firmware issues bricking 980 and 990 pro SSDs and their response was atrocious. They only did something about it after getting enough bad press for denying countless warranty claims.
You considered WD above even Samsung?
To be fair, Samsung has really only been part if the equation since SSDs became a thing. In the spinning platter era, if you wanted reliability it was either WD or Segate.
Remember the deathstar disaster?
For spinning platter, they all had periods of huge quality drops.
Like Seagate turned awful after buying Maxtor.
Seagate has had their moments long before that. Their Medalist series comes to mind.
Samsung isn’t the cleanest with history either
Isn’t it? They produce the flash memory themselves. Also didn’t they do the biggest recall in history with the note 7
I mean if we are throwing in their other product lines, Samsung appliances are notoriously bad. Especially their fridges.
Earlier this year they had major firmware issues bricking 980 and 990 pro SSDs and their response was atrocious. They only did something about it after getting enough bad press for denying countless warranty claims.
thankfully that was a software issue so I was able to fix mine before it shit the bed. Unfortunately the problem for WD is actually hardware based.
Did make me think twice about buying samsung in the future tho.
Samsung famously had problems with their 970 EVO drives.
That.
I have an Evo 860, Evo 980 and Pro 980 all die in 16 months.
One failure, ok.
Two failures, could be coincidence,
but 3 complete failures across different product lines and you a systematic production problem.