Samsung on the slide
What is going on with Samsung’s quality control?
AS FALLS from grace go, Samsung’s has been precipitous of late. For two weeks running, the South Korean tech giant was forced to release firmware updates to fix flaws on its premium SSDs. First, the 980 Pro had to be patched to address an apparent epidemic of spontaneous drive deaths, themselves reportedly caused by an earlier flawed firmware update.
Then the latest 990 Pro model had to be patched following widespread reports of declining drive health as registered by Samsung’s own Magician SSD tool. For a brand that a few years ago was the gold standard in solid-state storage, both from a reliability and a performance perspective, this is a pointedly parlous state of affairs.