Have Samsung Hurt Their Sales

Andy7 · 28 Feb 2015 at 22:26

With the Evo fiasco do you think Samsung will lose sales?

Randomface74 · 28 Feb 2015 at 22:29

yes, some, obvs

russell664 · 28 Feb 2015 at 22:46

I would have thought so, but maybe they will learn from the littel fiasco they had.

andy_mk3 · 28 Feb 2015 at 22:46

I would imagine so, just like OCZ who earnt a bad reputation from poor reliability.

ED209 · 28 Feb 2015 at 23:11

I think so, this has put me off Samsung drives

Jokester · 28 Feb 2015 at 23:22

It will be a small effect, mainly in the enthusiast area. Normal users will completely oblivious to there even being a problem with the drives to be honest.

TheGentry · 1 Mar 2015 at 03:24

anyone update me on whats gone on, just got my 840 EVO

ED209 · 1 Mar 2015 at 08:46

TheGentry said:
anyone update me on whats gone on, just got my 840 EVO

waiting for Samsung to release a new version of the magician software in March

On Holiday · 1 Mar 2015 at 09:07

What exactly is the issue?

Mr. May · 1 Mar 2015 at 09:10

Archeum said:
What exactly is the issue?

+1 to this :eek:

Jokester · 1 Mar 2015 at 10:22

Archeum said:
What exactly is the issue?

The 840 Evo series drives performance dies over time, in a matter of months.

ED209 · 1 Mar 2015 at 10:23

have you not been reading the 35 page long post, found here?

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18615995&page=35

Aurhinius · 1 Mar 2015 at 10:24

On 840 evo drives if your files are static i.e not being rewritten often your drive starts to loose performance. The older the file the more dramatic that becomes. Os drives have a lot of static files because windows doesnt change most of the files. Same with game installs. Drives are dropping from 500mb/s to 50mb/s. Access times go up etc etc. Its really not good! The problem is well documented on most tech sites and we have our own thread with plenty of screenshots of what happens.

On Holiday · 1 Mar 2015 at 10:24

Jokester said:
The 840 Evo series drives performance dies over time, in a matter of months.

Oh, was aware of that, thought the restoration software restored it to what it should be though?

ED209 · 1 Mar 2015 at 10:30

Archeum said:
Oh, was aware of that, thought the restoration software restored it to what it should be though?

didn't work for everyone, some SSDs are still having issues after the restoration tool has been ran and secure erase.

JeffyB · 2 Mar 2015 at 10:10

I avoided samsung drives and went for crucial precisely because of the issues.

Dervious · 10 Mar 2015 at 21:39

I used to buy and install Crucial M4 SSDs.

Along came Samsung 830s, and I switched to them (based on price/spec/brand reputation).

The 840s also seemed superior to what Crucial were offering.

I now know that there are issues with the 840 and 840 Evos. So far Samsung have failed to recognise any problem with the 840 and have failed to fix the 840 Evo.

I'm now buying Crucial SSDs (MX100) again. It's an even easier choice, now that the MX100 is generally cheaper than the 840 (and 850) Evo.

wazza300 · 10 Mar 2015 at 22:03

Samsung are a huge company,they will swallow this sales blip no sweat

Their HDDs were and still are fantastic as are their 840 pro ssd's,crucial got wise and launched a cracking drive for less money the mx100 range,Samsung need to match this drive currently the 840 evo is flawed and overpriced

Dervious · 10 Mar 2015 at 23:42

wazza300 said:
Samsung are a huge company,they will swallow this sales blip no sweat

Good for them.

What about their customers ? Will they correct the issue with their Evo SSDs, or will they walk away, leaving their customers disappointed ?

wazza300 · 11 Mar 2015 at 00:34

I don't think they care...much