Question um anyone have a samsung evo 870?

[Zoozuu]

I don't own one but my friend recently got a 1tb and it gets less than 25 to 50mb/s write and a really bad benchmark on magician. is that normal? should he rma or return it? this is on a fresh install of windows 10. it installs fine and installed some games okay. he said it took longer than his old 850 pro 256gb to install and he cant copy to the ssd at a sustained speed. it will copy at 5gbps for like a few seconds then just drop down lower as it goes then stays down like a low quality usb thumb drive.

 

[Zoozuu]

Google it US. the 870 does have a high failure rate. Now you are just trolling..

 

[UsandThem]

Google it US. the 870 does have a high failure rate. Now you are just trolling..

OK.

20k+ reviews on Amazon, 700+ on Newegg and Bestbuy, and 200+ on BH Photo.

All rated at 4.8 - 4.9

Must be a horrible drive. Thanks for letting everyone here know.

 

[mikeymikec]

Google it US. the 870 does have a high failure rate. Now you are just trolling..

I found a bunch of redditors saying they've had failures, and I found this:

Puget's reliability report shows nearly flawless record for Samsung SSDs

Puget notes that as every part it uses in its systems goes through a comprehensive qualification process, the failure rates reported here are likely lower than the...

www.techspot.com

Over 1,000 870 EVO and QVO drives were sold during the covered period, with no reported failures.

Have you considered the possibility that you had one bad experience and you decided it must be the entire product line at fault, then you went googling for a bit of confirmation bias?

Also consider that (according to Samsung) they sold 85 million SSDs in 2019. Blackblaze reports a general SSD failure rate of 1.07% (Q4 2021). If Samsung follows that trend, that's over 900k SSD failures, which is a lot of SSDs failing. Let's say for the sake of argument that every single Samsung SSD owner posts a complaint on the Internet about their SSD failure. How bad does that look if you're fishing for confirmation bias. Frankly if only 1% of those experiencing failures went to the Internet to complain, it would still look like a heck of a lot of failures.

 

[Insert_Nickname]

The 870 EVO is TLC, not QLC (the official specs say "3-bit MLC" which is a bit cheeky but anyway). But yes, I'd expect a slowdown once the cache has been exhausted.

Oops. Typo. Meant TLC. You're correct of course. It's the QVO that's QLC.

 

[Zoozuu]

Lol you posted about customer reviews? Is that your go to for information?

It wasn't just me having the problem. A friend of mine bought a 1 tb version and told me it was slow. I tested it and even posted screenshots. Then I bought a 2tb version that was doing the same thing. Two out of two drives is enough for me to just write a purchase off and never get it again. My 850 pro works just fine anyways.

 

[mikeymikec]

Ok, this has gone from a help thread with no further information given to a rant thread. You do you, Zoozuu. <clicks 'unwatch'>

 

[Zoozuu]

I'm surprised you didn't get that from the other people's posts. Even if you don't read this. Thank you for trying to help mikeymikec and Larry even though you seem weird to me for thumbs upping Us's attempted trolling.

 

[UsandThem]

Lol you posted about customer reviews? Is that your go to for information?

It wasn't just me having the problem. A friend of mine bought a 1 tb version and told me it was slow. I tested it and even posted screenshots. Then I bought a 2tb version that was doing the same thing. Two out of two drives is enough for me to just write a purchase off and never get it again. My 850 pro works just fine anyways.

Great! Nobody cares that you declared the 870 EVO as a junk drive. If you don't like their products, don't buy any. However, you're not going to convince anyone with knowledge of SSDs of that wild claim (no matter how many times you write out "trolling" or "LOL").

I'm surprised you didn't get that from the other people's posts. Even if you don't read this. Thank you for trying to help mikeymikec and Larry even though you seem weird to me for thumbs upping Us's attempted trolling.

I know you talk a big game, like you are some kind of highly knowledgeable user, but let's not forget your very first post here less than 2 years ago asking about drivers for NVMe drives.

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/hmm-980-pro-questions.2586457/

Honestly, the way you write, and the way you lash out at people who disagree with you makes you sound like an angry 12 year old throwing a temper tantrum.

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[Snakexor]

Thanks guys, for backing up my "claim". It is widely known that 870evos are great drives and your issues are not likely due to the drive. While possible I would not look to the drive be at fault immediately.

Thanks!