What simply occurred? Puget Methods has stopped providing Samsung’s 990 Professional solid-state drives in new builds following quite a few experiences of well being degradation points. Issues arose final yr when the customized PC builder began seeing abnormally excessive failure charges within the subject on the Samsung 980 Professional 2TB mannequin. Puget labored with Samsung to assist monitor down the wrongdoer and only in the near past, the Korean tech large issued a firmware replace to treatment the matter.
Samsung’s newer 990 Professional, in the meantime, began exhibiting problems with its personal shortly after launch. In our protection late final month, we highlighted accounts of customers on Reddit and elsewhere experiencing alarmingly low well being numbers on their 990 Execs. In a single occasion, SSD utilities confirmed a person’s drive was already right down to 93 % well being regardless of having solely written about 7TB. One other person reported their drive being 36 % worn out after writing lower than 2TB of knowledge.
Puget stated Samsung is at present investigating 990 Professional experiences however within the meantime, the system builder has determined to modify to an alternate product providing whereas the matter unfolds.
For 1TB and 2TB NVMe drives, Puget is now deploying SSDs from Sabrent. The corporate has been utilizing 4TB and 8TB Sabrent drives for some time now and hasn’t had any points with them. Their smallest possibility, a 500GB mannequin, will stay the Samsung 980 Professional contemplating that dimension shouldn’t be accessible within the 990 Professional line and thus, not wrapped up within the newest affair.
Puget’s William George stated they do not usually announce modifications to their product line like this however felt it was mandatory on this state of affairs contemplating they’ve been so outspoken about Samsung SSD reliability prior to now.
Prospects working a system outfitted with a Samsung 980 Professional 2TB have already been contacted about replace their firmware, we’re instructed, and people with 990 Professional points are inspired to succeed in out so Puget could make issues proper.
Have you ever skilled any points with both the 980 Professional or 990 Professional?