Samsung Unveils SSD 750 Series with Special Corporate Warranty

[btarunr]

Samsung launched the 750 EVO line of mainstream SSDs, designed for the OEM channel, particularly business desktops and notebooks. These 2.5-inch drives, featuring SATA 6 Gb/s interfaces, offer extended corporate warranty periods. Some models offer warranties as high as 6-year, others 5-year. The drives are available in two capacities, 120 GB and 250 GB, with variants based on warranty policy on offer. Under the hood, these drives offer a feature set similar to the 850 EVO series - up to 540 MB/s sequential reads, up to 520 MB/s sequential writes, 97,000 IOPS 4K random access for the 250 GB variant, and 94,000 IOPS random access for the 120 GB variant.



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[Chaitanya]

waiting for it to end up in retail channels.

 

[btarunr]

waiting for it to end up in retail channels.

The retail channel version will only come with 3-year warranty.

 

[xvi]

"Offers a feature set similar to the 850 Evo"
So why is a new product necessary? Just sell 850 Evos.

 

[Ahhzz]

Samsung launched the 750 EVO line of mainstream SSDs, designed for the OEM channel, particularly business desktops and notebooks. These 2.5-inch drives, featuring SATA 6 Gb/s interfaces, offer extended corporate warranty periods. Some models offer warranties as high as 6-year, others 5-year. The drives are available in two capacities, 120 GB and 250 GB, with variants based on warranty policy on offer. Under the hood, these drives offer a feature set similar to the 850 EVO series - up to 540 MB/s sequential reads, up to 520 MB/s sequential writes, 97,000 IOPS 4K random access for the 250 GB variant, and 94,000 IOPS random access for the 120 GB variant.



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I wonder how that will work, since as a whole, the HD manufacturer's ignore their warranty for OEM devices. I can get a Toshiba laptop in with a WD black, and if the drive fails after the 1-year Toshiba Warranty, I'm screwed, or my client is, anyway. What's the point of putting a hard drive in a device with a longer warranty than the device itself?

 

[Brusfantomet]

I wonder how that will work, since as a whole, the HD manufacturer's ignore their warranty for OEM devices. I can get a Toshiba laptop in with a WD black, and if the drive fails after the 1-year Toshiba Warranty, I'm screwed, or my client is, anyway. What's the point of putting a hard drive in a device with a longer warranty than the device itself?

Well, lots of European countries have 5 years++ return right (if the device breaks within the return right period the shop where it was bought has to fix the device). They just send the device to the manufacturer as warranty anyway, but its easier to force a local shop/suppler to honor this than a large multi national company.

Also, for medium and large businesses that does their own modification to laptops it could be handy to have 5 years of warranty

 

[Chaitanya]

The retail channel version will only come with 3-year warranty.

that would be a shame, I wouldn't mind paying extra 20-30$ for a 5-7 year warranty just for a little peace of mind.

 

[cdawall]

that would be a shame, I wouldn't mind paying extra 20-30$ for a 5-7 year warranty just for a little peace of mind.

Why? It will be outdated and replaced well before that.

 

[Chaitanya]

Why? It will be outdated and replaced well before that.

Not many people replace their storage drives every 3-4 years. I know a lot of people who have been using the single storage drive for 5-8 years now and are reluctant to replace those. In corporate world that extra warranty is a necessity but for retail it can provide peace of mind for such users who use their drives for a super long time.

 

[cdawall]

Not many people replace their storage drives every 3-4 years. I know a lot of people who have been using the single storage drive for 5-8 years now and are reluctant to replace those. In corporate world that extra warranty is a necessity but for retail it can provide peace of mind for such users who use their drives for a super long time.

Really? I have replaced all of my 5 year old solid states. The only people who typically keep them past that are those with older mechanical drives being used for storage. As solid states increase in speed and capacity they are replaced by the "enthusiast" market. Solid states and hard drives as far as storage drives go aren't typically replaced on the same time frame.

 

[Chaitanya]

Really? I have replaced all of my 5 year old solid states. The only people who typically keep them past that are those with older mechanical drives being used for storage. As solid states increase in speed and capacity they are replaced by the "enthusiast" market. Solid states and hard drives as far as storage drives go aren't typically replaced on the same time frame.

Like you said enthusiasts will replace drives on a 3-5 year cycle but for most consumers things aren't that simple.

 

[cdawall]

Like you said enthusiasts will replace drives on a 3-5 year cycle but for most consumers things aren't that simple.

Most consumers don't have a solid state and most consumers are replacing their entire computer every 3-5 years.

 

[Chaitanya]

Most consumers don't have a solid state and most consumers are replacing their entire computer every 3-5 years.

In India average consumers will use the electronics until they die, they dont have a fixed upgrade cycle unlike PC enthusiasts who will upgrade once atleast every 3 years.