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pressedbread t1_jctc7q1 wrote

Also just found out legitimate 980 Pro (mostly 2TB version) have a serious firmware error. Download samsung magician software direct from samsung website and it will tell you on the console if you need to update firmware.

I just saw than my SSD purchased Feb *2022 was running the bad firmware version

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happyscrappy t1_jcwi838 wrote

Well shit, my Pro is in my PS5. This is going to be a big hassle.

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pressedbread t1_jcwnq56 wrote

Check the firmware version if you can in the device. My version "3B2QGXA7 " was apparently known issue from this article:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-980-pro-ssd-failures-firmware-update

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happyscrappy t1_jcwnwi2 wrote

I did a firmware update (which didn't update anything, just said it was up to date) in my PC before installing it in the PS5.

I should have written down the version number when I did that.

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emsharas t1_jcu4qqh wrote

What was the error?

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pressedbread t1_jcu9hes wrote

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-980-pro-ssd-failures-firmware-update

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ImpurestFire t1_jcutirg wrote

Not sure if these were the exact drives we used at my work but we've had issues recently with some of the servers we've built and shipped out that run off of Samsung M.2 drives. What we would see is the "available spare percent" steadily declining. We've had to ship replacement servers for this. It was either these drives or the 990s.

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pressedbread t1_jcwo6t4 wrote

Oops I wrote the wrong date, mine wasn't an early release it was from Feb 2022. Had been out a couple years. I lean towards reliability, try to not buy anything brand new to market. *except maybe CPU and GPU

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REPOST_STRANGLER_V2 t1_jcwtheo wrote

Samsung seem to always bring out products with issues, my Q80T still has a flickering issue with VRR or when switching from a different source to my PC, I also had to return a G7 because the VRR caused flicker and had scanlines on anything with red in it.

Samsung products just seem to have terrible QC and not even very good products.

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