Samsung launches 860 PRO and 860 EVO SSDs

[aidanjt]

but after the debacle of the 840?? I'd be wary of choosing them again.

I wouldn't worry about that too much, the 840 thing was overblown, and rectified in the 850, which I have. It's taken a pummelling and it's still going great.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I am still using that Kingston SSD I won on Hexus in 2012(it did not get used for just over a year during that period though),and it apparently has over 18TB written to it.

[liquidflower]

On a slightly different note, should we be worried about data rot in any ssd's?

[GoNz0]

Oh well. Samsung unlike the other main players in the SSD market are still refusing to release the PSID revert tool so you have no way of removing the drive security should you enable it, this makes them almost impossible to sell on if you enabled security as people want the option to turn it on if they want to.

Samsungs crappy answer is to RMA the drive to have it PSID reverted at a service centre. What a joke.

[chrestomanci]

On a slightly different note, should we be worried about data rot in any ssd's?

Probably no more than any other form or storage. Most SSDs implement basic ECC checksum logic to detect errors, as do hard drives, so silent corruption should be detected. Unless you are running a server, your RAM does not have ECC, so the most likely source of corruption is in your PC's RAM before it is written out to long term storage.

If you are really paranoid you could run a next gen disk filing system that maintains checksums of everything written, such as btrfs on Linux, or zfs on bsd and some commercial Unix. I don't think there is anything equivalent available for windows though.

Ars technica did a good article on next gen filesystems a few years ago:

https://arstechnica.com/information-...n-filesystems/

[peterb]

Seems like the launch has been delayed or they are in short supply - all the UK suppliers seem to have the Pro version on backorder.