“Samsung’s 990 Pro drives are exhibiting rapid health degradation, with Samsung Magician software reporting a drop of around 1% endurance per week.”
Puget saw abnormally high field failures on the Samsung 980 Pro 2TB and spent months getting Samsung to ship a firmware fix. The replacement 990 Pro launched late in 2022 and started burning through its endurance at 1% a week. Puget is moving its 1TB and 2TB drives to Sabrent. Samsung’s reputation for reliable SSDs lasted exactly until it stopped being true, and only the system builders noticed first.