• TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id
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    11 months ago

    How are Samsung’s SSD?

    I am looking to buy one external drive of 2 TB for Backup of my multi-media collection and 1 M.2 SSD for my laptop upgrades.

    If someone can even specify the model that’s known to be good would really be helpful.

    • Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip
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      11 months 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.

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        11 months 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.