In reply to a post by zyborg47:

Who use Samsung anyway?

the 840,850,860,870 sata ssds were considered thre best or one of the best.

Again with their nvme m.2 units, considered some of the best, pcie5 m.2 slots now have more or less everyone around the same.

Also samsung always had given you a chance to buy hbm based ssds or dram based ssds .........

But like with everything with samsung of late, they have blured the line between brands and confused many.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

Who use Samsung anyway?

Quite a lot of people: https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Internal-Solid-S...

No 2 in the UK.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Sellers-Computers-Acce...

In reply to a post by Taras:

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

Who use Samsung anyway?

the 840,850,860,870 sata ssds were considered thre best or one of the best.

Again with their nvme m.2 units, considered some of the best, pcie5 m.2 slots now have more or less everyone around the same.

Also samsung always had given you a chance to buy hbm based ssds or dram based ssds .........

But like with everything with samsung of late, they have blured the line between brands and confused many.

My choice for my next NVME. My Corsair MP510 has served me well (Samsung NAND) I plan to go for Samsung next time but still plenty life in the Corsair (69%).

In reply to a post by Banger:

My choice for my next NVME.

About 3 years ago I moved to a new PC that had NVMe, and had a look around... in the last 8 to 10 years I think all my SSDs but one had been Samsung. 820, 830, 840 series 2.5" SATA drives. Now on a 980 Pro NVMe ; zero complaints. (my first SSD was a 128gb OCZ in a core2duo machine).

That's only one person though, not really much data on reliability.

I’ve got three Samsung NVMe drives and a couple of their external SSDs. Blindingly fast performance and 100% reliability so far.

i've had

990 pro, adata 8200 (yes that ssd - is fab before they had to switch chips but didn't tell anyone) firecuda 510 and kingston kc3000.

all with dram

sata
850 and 860s

will do the no dram ones tomorrow.

And yes in some circumstances you can notice the difference even at sata level

Okay, get it, lots of people do use Samsung. LOL.
I have never had a Samsung drive, I liked Corsair and used them for years, drives and memory, Lexar for SD cards, normally, but Lexar is now Longsys, since Micron dumped them.

I have been lucky with storage to be honest, only had one drive go belly up on me completely and that was the Corsair Force 3, but it years old and was used as a temp file drive for a while, after the end of it OS days, so lots of reading and writing.

For storage, I still prefer mechanical drives, slow yes, but a lot cheaper.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

For storage, I still prefer mechanical drives, slow yes, but a lot cheaper.

Tell Apple, they went SSD for all their products long before others. Have you tried macOS (or Windows 10 or 11) on a mechanical drive? Nobody has time for that anymore. Using SSD gets rid of the need to defragment, as the whole file system responds with the same latency.

I used Samsung a lot over the years HHD and SSD but for the last year or more I've been fitting Fanxiang M.2 and SSD with issues to date. Not badly priced either.

I've just fitted a 2TB to my grandsons xmas prezzie laptop...shussssh don't tell him.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New year and 2026 from Wales

Nadolig llawen a blwyddyn newydd dda 😁