Question Should I buy SSD 870 EVO 4TB at this time ?

[pikapika1998]

Hi , thanks for your interest, I have been planning to buy 870 EVO for the past year and have saved up some money, I live in Vietnam, the price of 870 EVO in Vietnam is almost 2 months of my salary

I have heard that 870 EVO has a defect from the 2021 production batch, I can't believe this happened, has Samsung fixed this defect yet ? Should I buy it at this time ?

Thanks

 

[Lutfij]

1| What sort of specs do you have to work with? Please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model. BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time.

2| I have been planning to buy 870 EVO for the past year and have saved up some money, I live in Vietnam, the price of 870 EVO in Vietnam is almost 2 months of my salary
What other options do you have besides the 870 Evo?

3| Why are you jumping onto a 2.5" SSD in 2025?

Simple answer, if you have better options, why not spring for them?

 

[pikapika1998]

1| What sort of specs do you have to work with? Please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model. BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time.

2| I have been planning to buy 870 EVO for the past year and have saved up some money, I live in Vietnam, the price of 870 EVO in Vietnam is almost 2 months of my salary
What other options do you have besides the 870 Evo?

3| Why are you jumping onto a 2.5" SSD in 2025?

Simple answer, if you have better options, why not spring for them?

hi sir Lutfij
i want to use SATA 2.5 because of low temperature and availability via SATA connector in my old mainboard with i7 7700

i want to use 870 EVO because initially it is the best choice for durability in SATA team

but i heard about the problem in the batches they produced in 2021 and want to know the truth to decide whether to buy in 2024 ?

have they fixed the bug or the batches from 2021 still exist ? i don't know

 

[fzabkar]

AFAIK, Samsung has not publicly announced the reason for the high failure rate of the 870 Evo. On that basis, I would refrain from purchasing this model. If instead they had said that they had "this" problem and fixed it by doing "that", then I would have some faith in the current product. A firmware "fix" can easily mask bad NAND flash by rewriting it pre-emptively on a regular basis. If that's what Samsung has done, then it's a band-aid, not a real fix. But we'll never know because Samsung doesn't tell us anything.