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https://www.tomshardware.com/news/adata-and-other-ssd-makers...
Samsung have a long history of releasing the same phone with a different SoC in different regions - Snapdragon in the highest-value markets, but slower and less efficient Exynos everywhere else.
https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-exynos-versus-snapd...
What about the prices? Is Polish one cheaper?
Samsung's Dutch website lists the SSD as available for €480 (2 044,03 zł) while their Polish site lists the drive for 1 649,00 zł (€387). This may not reflect actual price in third party stores, but at nearly 25%, the price difference could explain the difference in rated TBW.
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.
With general consumer goods this is often done because prices in central and eastern Europe are often lower (to match the lower income in those countries). It makes to do sense as long as the price is lower, though it boils my blood that these companies will give no indication of the difference on the packaging or, in this case, in their SKU numbers. The difference between UK pricing and Polish pricing (the lowest di…
I would say it's just because they are allowed to do so and EU open market kinda enforce that.
Par for the course in the consumer SSD market. Manufacturers often change the controller or flash chips without changing the model number. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/adata-and-other-ssd-makers... Samsung have a long history of releasing the same phone with a different SoC in different regions - Snapdragon in the highest-value markets, but slower and less efficient Exynos everywhere else. https://www.androidaut…
Personally I consider the Exynos phones to be better - more customizable, less weird code running in hypervisor mode. Performance is good.