Samsung 980 PRO 2TB M.2 2280 NAND Drive Failures
TLDR: Samsung is requiring customers who paid a premium for high-end storage devices and which are now failing due to defect into an unusable but still readable state to send in their drives with sensitive data in the clear in order to have their product replaced. -=-=-=-=-=-=- THE FAILURE AND TROUBLESHOOTING A little over a year ago, when the Samsung 980 PRO 2TB m.2 drives went on sale on NewEgg, I bit the bullet and upgraded from my 1TB Intel 2280. These Samsung drives had great reviews and the performance was objectively superior to what was then my system drive. That's a $420 (plus tax and shipping) drive kids. And for a time, it was great - truly high performance. Then just 13 months later, suddenly - as computer problems are oft to be - while in the middle of my daily operations the drive just up and failed. My apps froze and I got a blue screen, something I hadn't seen in my home in literally years. Ruh-roh. It wouldn't boot. I still had the other Intel drive instal
