560 MB/sec. sequential read 560 MB/sec. sequential write 2 GB cache 1.5 million hours guaranteed lifespan or 1,200 TB (To Be Written/TBW) lifespan 5 year warranty!

Price is a bit higher. Watch for Black Friday sales

I have a 10 years old 500GB Samsung EVO 2.5" SATA SSD and a 1TB EVO as well. They have zero issues. I love them. I JUST bought my 2TB Samsung EVO 870 2.5" SSD and again, zero issues. I got it for as a price match for Black Friday 2023. The original price was much higher. So, a great sale. Also, instead of RAIDing several small SSDs, just buy one large SSD. RAID has no real benefits anymore. Storage space has never been cheaper. And the larger the capacity of a drive that you buy, the better the price. Ie: 1x 6 TB SSD vs 3x 2 TB SSDs. I have had zero issues with Samsung M.2 M-Key SSDs or 2.5" SATA SSDs. I have: 500GB Samsung EVO 2.5" SSD in my PS3 1 TB Samsung EVO 2.5" SSD in my PS4 PRO a 500 GB and a 1 TB Samsung EVO 2.5" SSD in my old PC a 2 TB Samsung EVO 2.5" SSD in my new PC 100% RELIABLE!!

Fast and initially stable. Have three RAID 1 pairs with one each of these plus a HDD in each raid set. Overall works great as I get 25-45 % better performance over 2 HDDs. Except for writes but that’s expected. So I get the speed of SSD reads and the reliability of a spinning platter.

Maybe this is a batch issue but one day on a reboot Windows booted to a recovery screen. All windows options failed at that point including troubleshooting as it couldn’t diagnose any issues. So unplug all drives except the boot disks. Now it boots. Installing just the HHDs in the raids and the system boots. Install a SSD cable and I get only the recovery screen. One SSD failed but a second one failed 48 hours later. There are different VMs on each raid pair but some VMs get substantially less booting and use. Fortunately the IPR kicked in and after a tech checkout at Mem Exp I have received 2 new SSDs. Hoping the 3rd one stays stable.

Very strange that a fault / failure on a SSD (maybe a Samsung problem?) causes all SATA ports to hang the system. The BIOS cautions about mixed raid (and so it should) but is happy to allow the config and for the last 8 months it has worked perfectly. HDDs usually show minor issues as they degrade but rarely outright fail. I’ve just found SSDs just fail. Thanks to the HDDs I haven’t lost any data. And yes I do do backups but that’s not the point here. Samsung gets 1 star and Mem Exp gets 5.