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What about the prices? Is Polish one cheaper?
More expensive "official" samsung.com/uk/ price, but Samsung UK official Amazon listing is already cheaper than cheapest Polish distributed drive while samsung.com/us/official Samsung US Amazon/bestbuy is 40% cheaper than that.
What about the prices? Is Polish one cheaper?
This may not reflect actual price in third party stores, but at nearly 25%, the price difference could explain the difference in rated TBW.
You can deduce the TBW from SMART data. That would be an interesting comparison between the products sold in the two countries.
I imagine it's because Poland, and EU in general, is serious about consumer protection. When they set the TBW to 2400TB, there's X% of drives that will fail under that, requiring warranty service. That X% might be OK in the US, but too expensive for them in Poland, so they slice the TBW in half, reducing failure-within-warranty % to a small fraction of X (it's non-linear), and call it a day. (For products aimed at ge…
On Samsung's Netherlands website they also declare 2400 TBW. http://web.archive.org/web/20240714091323/https://www.samsun...
The Belgian website (be_NL + be_FR) lists the same high price as the Dutch website as well as the 2400TBW number. I find this interesting, as I would've expected the Belgian websites to be mostly copy/pastes of the Dutch+French websites (as so many sites do to save cost), but it seems like the be_FR variant seems to be based on a different source/translation than the French variant.
What I find interesting is that the performance quotes for most variants stating 2400TBW aren't translated, whereas the websites where the TBW is lower or the price isn't listed seem to have the entire spec page translated.
The Italian website lists and even higher price but also lists 2400TBW in the extended warranty, actually translated for once.
Makes me feel like there are two SKUs around in Europe, a cheaper 1200TBW variant for certain markets, and a 2400TBW variant for others, that's just the American one with its specs copy/pasted.
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On Samsung's Netherlands website they also declare 2400 TBW. http://web.archive.org/web/20240714091323/https://www.samsun...
The Dutch website also lists a significantly higher price. The German version is similarly priced to the Polish one, but doesn't seem to list a TBW guarantee at all. The French website lists neither a price nor a TBW number. The Belgian website (be_NL + be_FR) lists the same high price as the Dutch website as well as the 2400TBW number. I find this interesting, as I would've expected the Belgian websites to be mostly…
Its normal double standards. The same happens with non west Europe food items and detergents that are sold in the central or eastern Europe. The sold on non western market have more diluted product or contain more sugar or artificial ingredients.
The difference between UK pricing and Polish pricing (the lowest difference I could find that has a TBW stated) seems to be about 300zł, but other EU locations stating the 2400TBW number are more expensive than both of those.
They should've made v9p4t0bw-1200 and v9p4t0bw-2400 product lines. This is just disingenuous. Without a different model number, people buying in/importing from countries with the 2400TBW variants listed on Samsung's website now need to look out for scammers selling cheaper foreign products with exactly the same model number for the higher price.
MZ-V9P1T0BW (1TB)
5-year or 600 TBW limited warranty
MZ-V9P2T0BW (2TB)
5-year or 1200 TBW limited warranty
MZ-V9P4T0BW (4TB)
5-year or 2400 TBW limited warranty
It would also explain why the Dutch website lists the 2400TBW number in English.
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The Dutch website also lists a significantly higher price. The German version is similarly priced to the Polish one, but doesn't seem to list a TBW guarantee at all. The French website lists neither a price nor a TBW number. The Belgian website (be_NL + be_FR) lists the same high price as the Dutch website as well as the 2400TBW number. I find this interesting, as I would've expected the Belgian websites to be mostly…
Or the higher price is to accommodate the returns/RMA of the failed drives.