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These back roads are hilly, curvy, narrow and have no shoulders. Drop off the edge of the pavement can be two inches or twenty feet. Thawed some yesterday, then snowed and froze again over night. It's 25 now and only expected to be 35 for a high.

Snow on black ice ain't great for delivery trucks.
 
[DHT]Osiris said:
I've literally had that happen. Stuff never arrived, they sent a new item, original item came, they just said to keep it. Amazon cares far more about customer satisfaction than any individual item (as they should).
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Yeah, they (or maybe the seller) mistakenly sent a supplement twice. I kept it, expecting a call from them to inform me that someone would come to pick it up. They never did.
 
igor_kavinski said:
@Red Squirrel

Curious question for you. Have you tried the heated vest that takes power from a powerbank? If so, is it any good?
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I never have, though it's something that could come in handy I imagine. I find when I have to work in the cold it's the initial getting started that's hard but once I've been working for a bit I actually need to start cooling myself off. Like the other day when doing the driveway it was cold at first but after about 10 minutes of work I was sweating.

What would be nice too is heated gloves. I'd have to look into those.
 
Lost_in_the_HTTP said:
That's pretty much the opposite of what I was told here before.
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It could just be me but at work, I've had weird things happen to PDFs on Samsung 860 EVO and 870 EVO on a Core i5 3rd gen and Core i5 10th gen, respectively. Copying PDFs from network share to a folder on these SSDs, somehow corrupted the PDFs. When I opened them in Notepad, it looked like they were filled with garbage (no ASCII character visible). Other files copied alongside the PDFs were unchanged. The PDFs on the network share were also fine. Somehow, the firmware bug on both these SSDs targeted only PDFs. WEIRD, I know. Happened twice or thrice on 860 EVO. Once on 870 EVO.
 
Samsung SSD's are known for having far and away the best reliability of all consumer-level drives with the possible exception of Intel.

In my personal experience with at least 50 individual Samsung drives I've experienced exactly ONE serious issue which resulted in data-loss. (and the drive was promptly replaced under warranty)
 
Lost_in_the_HTTP said:
Previous thread with comments from one who is now lined through and grey.

Question - Intel SSD apparently wonked out

Was working fine, then it wasn't. No access by any of the usual means. Disk Management shows a size of 8Mb instead of 160Gb Any ideas on how to regain access?
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Which model is your Intel SSD? If the controller is Sandforce, connect it as a spare drive and leave it on for about 24 hours. It may repair itself. Happened to me with a Corsair Force 60GB drive.
 
Captante said:
In my personal experience with at least 50 individual Samsung drives
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Which models?

Here's some links to problematic models:

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Samsung 870 EVO - Beware, certain batches prone to failure!

Certain 870 EVO 4TB and 2TB drives are affected by early failures where they develop uncorrectable errors and some data just cannot be read from them anymore. This seems to primarily affect drives produced in January/February 2021. For example, i have three 870 EVO 4TB, only one is affected (so...
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Causing trouble on Linux due to not supporting a TRIM feature: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1809972

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850 Pro is supposed to be legendary with petabytes of endurance. I have it (500GB) but using it to store movies (I know! Sacrilege!).
 
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Mostly 830's, 840's and 850's .... but several 870's (all SATA) as well. (the failure was an 840 Pro)

Also several 980 and 970 Pro/EVO drives. (NVME)

To be fair I've also had good luck with Western Digital/Sandisk, Crucial and Corsair SSD's. (gaming PC boots from a WD SN850 1tb)
 
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igor_kavinski said:
You could be an anomaly (AKA lucky son of a gun) 😛
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Nope.... most Samsung SSD models have been straight-up bulletproof for the vast majority of people who use them.

Aside from the often inflated price they sell for, (as a direct result of the above!) they're my "go-to" for reliable solid-state storage every time, bar none.
 
Lost_in_the_HTTP said:
I ordered a couple of SSDs from the 'Zon on the 16th. Orginal delivery date was supposed to be the 23rd ... the day the sky fell in across much of the country. No deliveries, not even mail. Roads were a mess. Delivery got rescheduled, then rescheduled again. 'Zon put a flag on the order that it it isn't delivered by today, I can 'come back for a refund'. Roads are still a mess and I don't know if there will be any deliveries today. Tomorrow should be OK and I imagine trucks will run.

I will not request a refund, but if they issue it automatically, I won't gripe.
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Tracking just changed a few minutes ago:



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So, I guess I'll see what happens tomorrow.
 
Captante said:
Aside from the often inflated price they sell for, (as a direct result of the above!) they're my "go-to" for reliable solid-state storage every time, bar none.
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Good. Just don't fall for cheap 870 drives. They are cheap for a reason. Samsung may be trying to make a quick buck.
 
Captante said:
Nope.... most Samsung SSD models have been straight-up bulletproof for the vast majority of people who use them.

Aside from the often inflated price they sell for, (as a direct result of the above!) they're my "go-to" for reliable solid-state storage every time, bar none.
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My first 850 died within a year. No problems since.
 
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