The strength of this SSD is well known. The best part is to buy it from Memory Express. I bought a 1T version and it slowly but gradually failed at the end of the 1 year return policy. Memory Express manager cut the red tape and got me a new replacement. Bless him & MemX!

Unfortunately, there are really bad batches from the 870 EVO 1T version. You can say the overall quality has declined. The replacement ME gave me has been working as Samsung has intended.

If you look up online about 870 EVO failures, you can basically tracked down the year and month of manufactured dates that are problematic. Do your own due diligence before buying anything. Also, the seller is paramount in your after purchase. If the business have any backbone, they'd help you. In my case, ME helped a lot in rectifying the situation.

Cheap and fast

Higher faulty rate than 3-4 yers ago We bought one year ago Samsong in our workstations and some of them failed. Now I see latest Samsung SSD have higher faulty rate than older. so from 12 SSD in a year dies 3 Also samsung not support and not provide data recovery service

Stops use this brand because NVME and SATA hard drives non reliable anymore.

None based on weaknesses.

Have a system built by ME over 2 years ago. A pair of 1TB in RAID 1 as my system disks in a VirtualBox host. So not much usage. Both drives failed about 20 months in. Glad for the 2 year IPR. Both were replaced and things have been fine for 8 months. Now one of those has failed. A low level utility that I have, talks directly to the drive (doesn't use drivers) has come back with a hardware ( or firmware ) failure that has rendered the drive unusable. So am I only getting drives built on a Monday or Friday or is this a systemic problem?

Will start replacing the Samsung SSDs with Gold or Black WD HDDs. Oh and now a 2TB 870 SSD has failed. Fortunately its paired drive was a HDD so no issues. Less than 3 years and three 1TB and one 2TB drive have all failed. Samsung fix your reliability issues. Even though the drives have a limited 5 year I'm not going to waste my time pursuing that.