Every time I hear about someone struggling with Samsung NVME SSDs like the 980 PRO, and in Louis Rossmann's case, the 990 PRO, I thank the fucking heavens that my 970 PRO 1TB still hasn't died on me since 2019, and I've ready many times that the 970 Pro is enterprise-grade + has a better controller than the 980 and the 990 PRO. What's kind of ironic is that I got mine from eBay at an auction from a German seller, and it was slightly used; I could tell by checking the SMART data via CrystalDiskInfo as soon as I hooked it up into my PC. The seller also mentioned that the SSD was used in a non-smoking environment, and as I guy who abhors cigarettes beyond human comprehension, I respect little details like that.
I did email Louis suggesting that he use MSI's SecureErase+, note that my dumbass forgot for a split second that he owns a data recovery business, and so if a PC-3000 device, which obviously supports USB3.0 can barely make it to 60-160MB write speed, surely, the SSD that Samsung support sent back to Louis is either the same faulty one or some replacement that was just as bad.
My 970 PRO 1TB has been my daily driver since 2019, and it's still kicking us. I honestly don't know why Samsung would use shitty controllers on the successors of 970 PRO, namely 980 PRO, and 990 PRO. Knowing how enshittificaiton is rampant this day, the only theory that I can come up with is blind greed by cutting corners. Like Louis said, and I paraphrase, if you can't stand behind your products by offering a solid warranty, you should have no fucking business selling products. It's bad enough that we're brainwashed into trusting certain brands, knowing that every known brand out there basically deals with the exact same manufacturer, so at the end of the day, it's the exact same shit with a different logo, and sometimes, slightly a different design. Maybe these greedy evil companies can fool the normies, but they can't fool someone like me or Louis; we both can't be bullshitted by shady tech companies because we're both tech-savvy enough not to fall for useless automated corporate jargon, and we only reserve getting pissed off when we try every single possibility in existence before contacting technical or customer support, so companies need to understand that not every customer is clueless, so automated useless responses can only make add fuel to the fire. Heck, my advice to all the companies out there: I wouldn't recommend treating any customer as clueless even when they claim they are, or at least the default should be to assume that the customer knows what they're talking about, especially if they provide all the technical data before a company asks for it.
One of the reasons I stopped shopping online by deleting all my shopping accounts: Amazon, AliExpress, eBay, etc, is that even though I won 95% of my support cases, it was still tedious to deal with all the stalling, the corporate jargon, and the gaslighting. I would rather just save my fucking money penny by penny than giving it away to greedy evil corporations who only care about getting their 300th megayacht. I don't even want to invest in these shady businesses or index funds, because I don't want to contribute to this out-of-touch evil technocracy in any way. Fuck them all!
Anyway, I better get some popcorn ready, because it's gonna be fun to see Samsung get their asses handed to them in court. We'll see about this “Too big to fail/care” bullshit even though I'm guessing this is a small claim court case.