On Tue, 22 Aug 2017, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > Samsung was recommended here. I see $150 for their 850 EVO 480G, and they > have a 5 Yr. warranty v.s. 3 Yr. for the other brands in that price range. > But a number of reviewers report terrible interactions with their warranty > support. Anybody here have similar issues? Is the likelihood of failure > low enough to ignore this issue? (My plan is to have the SSD my only > drive, and backup of data but not a duplicate of the system.)
Denis, My experience since I bought my first Seagate 20M ST225 in 1985 is having one drive fail about a dozen years ago ... a WD Black 500G which the company immediately replaced. I suspect the truism that if electonics don't quickly fail they'll last a long time still holds. I have the same Samsung 850 EVO 480G SSD in my Dell Latitude E5410 and a smaller Samsung 160G SSD in my Dell Latitude 2100. I don't think about failure of the drives. As long as you back up your /home and data you're covered ... except for the time involved in replacing the failed drive and re-installing your favorite distribution. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
