Recent content by gsteele531

I agree - it's unusual particularly because I have installed probably 10 other Samsung drives, and at least twice that number of other brands, with only a single failure among them. All my desktops are on UPS's, connected to the wall through surge protectors to extend the level of security and...

I have now had 3 Samsung 840/850 SSDs fail. The latest one, with 600 power cycles and 6000 power-on hours, comes up with the primary partition as RAW - i.e., unformatted. I find 6000 hours an unacceptably low life, given that the drive was installed on a home PC, which does not have heavy I/O...