Pro tip: don't trust those "lifetime" SSD warranties from 2015

Had a 6 year old Samsung 850 EVO die on me mid-shift Saturday night. Lost the entire POS system backup because I thought that 10 year warranty meant itd last. Anyone else get burned by old SSD reliability predictions?

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troy99612d ago

Buddy of mine learned this the hard way with his 840 EVO. It corrupted itself during a firmware update and Samsung basically said "sorry, warranty covers hardware failure not data recovery". Now he keeps everything on a mirrored pair of cheap Crucial drives and swaps them out every 3 years like clockwork.

jackson.sarah10d ago

Three years feels like overkill for SSDs though.