Samsung 990 Pro for the lowest price so far according to 3xCamel. Beware possible firmware issues as described at https://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-990-pro-firmware-u…
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yeah im curious too with overseas purchases. I have heard local warranty in aus wont exist
I'm not so concerned about the Samsung specifically. More generally the warranty handling since it isn't really an Amazon Australia sale. So the consumer protections won't be the same.
What's the warranty and who handles it?
Amazon US is appearing to handle warranty on my 1.5yr old failed 980pro. It is currently on its way back to them. Only option was to send it through ParcelPoint which was a 1.5 hour drive from my location, they refused to let me return through Auspost.
I wont know for sure that they will refund it until i receive the money back in my account though. I guess they can still refuse the refund once they receive it.
I can 100% confirm that Samsung Australia will not honor any warranty if the drive is not purchased directly from an Aussie re/e-tailer.
And i can second that. Theyre really dumb about it too. I gave them the receipt + serial # (receipt clearly stating Amazon US and Serial # confirms that) and they initiated the RMA and got me to send the drive through to them. They tested it and confirmed it had failed and approved the RMA. I received an email saying I would receive tracking for a replacement drive shortly. Then they finally emailed back saying that the drive was shipped from the US and they would be refusing warranty. Luckilly they sent it back to me so I could try for warranty through Amazon.
@DanielP2: That is extremely poor. It is incidents like these where you wish the government will create better consumer protection laws. I can understand if Samsung does not have wholesale and retail operations here, but they do and ultimately those drives all come from the same factory whether its sold here or the US.
They're just being untcays and using technicality to avoid warranty.
I thought that stupid issue had been resolved, sigh if not.
Apparently it is on newly manufactured SSD's, but you wont know until you get the product and can check the build date/location. JayzTwoCents had a good video about it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoAFzdz0h5M&t=603s
As the owner, I can confirm the issue is resolved. My health percentage was falling around 1% every fortnight, since applying the update, it stopped. Firmware update strongly recommended, anyway.
But the firmware update does not recover what was already lost in health %ge. Samsung is not entirely transparent as to what they did to fix the issue. I would be weary of what the fix actually involves and whether it can be fully trusted. For example is there any impact on performance due to the firmware fix?
Apart from that, it is a great price.
@findingbargains: I'm not in the market so I haven't looked, but with it being the premier SSD at the moment, surely someone has done some before and after performance testing with the fix??
@findingbargains: No impact in benchmarks, I measured before and after firmware update.
Regarding reliability and longevity, we'll find out in few years…
That said, Samsung lost some credibility, in my eyes at least, and two other drives I purchased are different brands.
It's about the warranty from the seller. Not the drive itself
Is this deal going to get deleted by the Mod as well? Why were the last two instances of deals on Samsung SSDs got deleted? I thought a deal is a deal.
The last one I think said was a duplicate
It said it was a duplicate, though there was no other post.
sn850x be looking lowkey litty tho fr fr
Samsung reliability :/ and the high price to boot? :/
No idea on the downvotes, the 990 had a pretty nasty issue, which requires a firmware flash. For playstation owners this could be a real mess of pulling apart laptop or PCs to flash it. Furthermore reports of 970's just dying years in are out there.
No such reports for other models.
Nah I'm good, you guys enjoy, good luck.
Good price but I’ll wait it out until they sort out the issues (and potential eBay sale + Samsung cashback offer like they used to have).
The issues have been sorted and i wouldn't hold my breath about cashback deals. Even if their was cashbacks, the local price is $100 more than this, so it wouldn't even come close to this price.
I want local warranty so even AU stock is more expensive, I still prefer to buy AU stock.
Just FYI, I recently RMAd a SSD with Samsung AU, it was a 3 week process so I can't imagine an international RMA taking meaningfully longer.
@reactor-au: That’s why I prefer local warranty. Samsung AU is not fast with warranty claims to begin with (I once claimed warranty on a Samsung printer and it took them a year to sort it out).
@FrugalNotStingy: Yes, I RMAd a local product with local Samsung and it took 3 weeks, maybe Samsung international will take 5 weeks but even then what's the difference when you're sitting without that storage space for 3 or 5 weeks, you'd end up like me just buying another SSD and try sell the other one from RMA.
thank you 28 degree master card price protection, assuming this is purchased though amazon AU so it will apply, paid 332 for this in november directly from samsung.
Any good cards to RAID 4 of these?
How is the warranty handled?