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Samsung Is the Latest SSD Manufacturer Caught Cheating Its Customers

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Re: Samsung Is the Latest SSD Manufacturer Caught Cheating Its Customers

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Post by theincredulousk »

Great the new PC I just built has the "BLU" version.

I've always bought Samsung drives without even comparing.

Edit: OP article says BLU is the new "inferior one", while Tom's hardware says BLU is the old one. According to above comment with The Facts™ it's fine either way.

Jebaited again.

Re: Samsung Is the Latest SSD Manufacturer Caught Cheating Its Customers

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Post by AlexandrB »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #2

Can we expect a class action from those who bought the most recent inferior version?

That would be great. These kind of actions need to result in a hit to the bottom line to make them unprofitable or I don't think manufacturers will get the message.

Re: Samsung Is the Latest SSD Manufacturer Caught Cheating Its Customers

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Post by BunsanSpace »

So this is a heavily editorialized headline, and is false.

Samsung has changed the 970 Evo controller to the one used on the 980.

They have updated the packaging, SKU and advertised performance to reflect this.

The new revision isn't slower or faster either. It's a bit faster in some tests, a bit slower in others, and the exact same in real world tests.

This is how you do hardware revisions if you don't have the components.

To claim they're cheating customers and put them in the same boat as WD and other vendors which do not change SKU's and use inferior components is incredibly dis-ingenious.

here's some more reputable links https://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-is-swapping-ssd-pa... https://hexus.net/tech/news/storage/148295-samsung-latest-ss...

Gonna add extremetech to my black list now.

Re: Samsung Is the Latest SSD Manufacturer Caught Cheating Its Customers

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theincredulousk wrote: post #4

Great the new PC I just built has the "BLU" version. I've always bought Samsung drives without even comparing. Edit: OP article says BLU is the new "inferior one", while Tom's hardware says BLU is the old one. According to above comment with The Facts™ it's fine either way. Jebaited again.

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