popular Posted by Fanofnori • Apr 20, 2025
Apr 20, 2025 6:24 PM
popular Posted by Fanofnori • Apr 20, 2025
Apr 20, 2025 6:24 PM
Samsung 870 EVO 2TB 2.5" SATA $99.46 (in person @ Staples, YMMV)
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The days when Samsung can overcharge for 1-8TB SSDs for the past decade are over.
Not for long with current tarrifs
Failures are common near the early and late parts of a device's lifecycle.
And by the time you get near the end of a lifecycle to have a meaningful amount of data to calculate failure rates (3-5-7-10 years later), you're probably not in a position to take advantage of that data.
Those drives are probably no longer sold. Or if they're old stock, sitting idle for that long may compromise their longevity. Or they're still sold, but they're from a different production run -- which each run can introduce its own problems. Component sourcing can change, and if one of those components is possibly unknowingly less reliable, it can make a world of difference.
And over time, companies are known to substitute components with cheaper ones -- we've seen this even in cases of review units early in the release cycle, so that they get favorable reviews before the masses buy poorly made identically-labeled versions. So imagine how they cut corners when a product is released for several years. It's a consumer hard drive, not a NASA rocket. And even those go boom quite a bit.
Failures are common near the early and late parts of a device's lifecycle.
And by the time you get near the end of a lifecycle to have a meaningful amount of data to calculate failure rates (3-5-7-10 years later), you're probably not in a position to take advantage of that data.
Those drives are probably no longer sold. Or if they're old stock, sitting idle for that long may compromise their longevity. Or they're still sold, but they're from a different production run -- which each run can introduce its own problems. Component sourcing can change, and if one of those components is possibly unknowingly less reliable, it can make a world of difference.
And over time, companies are known to substitute components with cheaper ones -- we've seen this even in cases of review units early in the release cycle, so that they get favorable reviews before the masses buy poorly made identically-labeled versions. So imagine how they cut corners when a product is released for several years. It's a consumer hard drive, not a NASA rocket. And even those go boom quite a bit.
Its called variable bom, build of materials, but it more applies to the generics and units built using commodity chips. Samsung makes its own controllers and nand, so its not likely to be variable bom, it wouldn't even make sense at this point.
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How to install this on my Xbox?
The days when Samsung can overcharge for 1-8TB SSDs for the past decade are over.
Good thing I live in Shenzhen.
I would say probably but who knows. I bought 24 of the 2TB 860 model in 2019. 8 have died. I bought the 870 models for replacement and 1 of them only made it 3 months before dying.