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frontpage Posted by DLV9100 • Jun 3, 2025
Jun 3, 2025 7:24 PM
Refurbished: Samsung 870 EVO Series 2.5" SATA III V-NAND Internal SSD: 500GB
& More + Free S/H$35
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You can get free software download from Samsung's website. Magician Software will let you clone from the old drive to your replacement refurbished 870. Magician Software also provides firmware updates for the Samsung drives. Very stable, useful drives at a great price point for those on a budget but want a quality name brand drive.
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I ignored the warning in the customer reviews before I purchased. I should have heeded the warnings.
Anything 2TB around that price is obviously a stretch.
All of them had very low writes, power on counts, and powered on hours. If you buy this, I'd recommend checking that the manufacture date (printed on the SSD) is relatively recent (to avoid any firmware issues that were previously mentioned in this thread). Worst case: just return it if anything seems off.
I ignored the warning in the customer reviews before I purchased. I should have heeded the warnings.
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/205471519568
and TLC does have its perks even on SATA. A cheap QLC nvme drive would be better in most uses if a slot is available, but not necessarily all.
those drives will have much faster write rates as long as there is free space/cache space to take advantage of, but once there isn't they slow down a lot.
a bottom-tier QLC 1TB drive like the Crucial P3 will slow to about 100 MB/s when there's no cache left to absord the data, whereas this drive can write at 500 MB/s until full.
how much cache is available will depend on how full the drive is and how long a big transfer will take
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1TB-
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y5VDNT9
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08M49JGKB
2TB-
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BYLNY4V8
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GB8S6R3
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08M446772
Offbrand, but new not refurb, probably same risk as a refurb Samsung-
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Q37V1C9
Like I said, wild that this is a front page refurbished 2.5" SATA SSD deal at these prices. At 120-130 for 2TB you can get Samsung/WD Black NVME drives also.
1TB-
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y5VDNT9
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08M49JGKB
Offbrand, but new not refurb, probably same risk as a refurb Samsung-
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Q37V1C9
Like I said, wild that this is a front page refurbished 2.5" SATA SSD deal at these prices. At 120-130 for 2TB you can get Samsung/WD Black NVME drives also.
Dude, no. Just...NO. NO ONE who is serious and knows ANYTHING about SSDs is going to put a Samsung 870, even refurb, against a PNY CS900, and choose the PNY unless it's HALF the cost, and they're willing to risk every bit of data they put on them.
CS900 are VERY well known for crapping out. I've had to replace 1 of 4 bought new, luckily PNY did replace, but all data was of course lost. Since it was just a boot drive with no local data stored (the reason I even risked a CS900), it didn't matter. But anyone risking real data with them had better back up from Day One.
The SP drive is a better comparison, some may agree, but I'd STILL take an 870 BB "refurb" over that.
CS900 are VERY well known for crapping out. I've had to replace 1 of 4 bought new, luckily PNY did replace, but all data was of course lost. Since it was just a boot drive with no local data stored (the reason I even risked a CS900), it didn't matter. But anyone risking real data with them had better back up from Day One.
The SP drive is a better comparison, some may agree, but I'd STILL take an 870 BB "refurb" over that.
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