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BboyDfresh

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So I'm from Canada and I'm returning my Samsung 840 Pro. Why? I have no warranty apparently. Its very complicted for Canadians and all the taxes wouldn't justify me RMA my ssd. I need a good warranty or a ssd is useless. I'm looking for a ssd that similar to the 840 pro in reliability and performance. My number one priority of the 2 however is reliability. I'd much rather have an ssd that is reliable and a little slower. I was looking at the crucial m550 or an intel. I've heard mixed opinions on OCZ so not sure. What's your recommendation? Can't really justify spending more than 400 on an ssd, 256 or 512.
 
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The older intels were crap. I've had 5 intel 530 240gb, and haven't a single problem with any. I have 3 in raid 0 on desktop, just about a pB written (1000TB) and drives sitting at 100%, my Samsung evo 1tb has like 130TB written and is at 93%). I also have one of the 530 in grandparents compter, no idea on written/read but probably low, and my 5th went into my Toshiba laptop which my father has been using, again probably low read/write.

The new intel 700 series is almost consumer prices but enterprise quality.

Otherwise there is the 850 pro, but im sure if you having warranty problems with 840pro the 850 is still Samsung and probably the same issue.
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I can't speak to the Intel 530 series, but I've had 3 out of 4 intel 520 drives fail in office workstation builds. The computers were well ventilated and kept dust free as well. I've had 100% of the OCZ drives used in workstations at my firm intermittently fail as well. (appears in bios and will allow access for ~2mins until the controller craps out)

I've had great luck with Samsung and Kingston drives, in all ranges of the respective manufacturers product lines.
 
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I have had 2 out of 3 Intel 320 series fail me as well, one was documented and supposedly fixed firmware bug (or so it appeared). Intel actually gave me a full refund on a used drive.
And one Kingston V100 failure.

All drives were in very light workloads. (standard desktop/laptop usage)
 
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The older intels were crap. I've had 5 intel 530 240gb, and haven't a single problem with any. I have 3 in raid 0 on desktop, just about a pB written (1000TB) and drives sitting at 100%, my Samsung evo 1tb has like 130TB written and is at 93%). I also have one of the 530 in grandparents compter, no idea on written/read but probably low, and my 5th went into my Toshiba laptop which my father has been using, again probably low read/write.

The new intel 700 series is almost consumer prices but enterprise quality.

Otherwise there is the 850 pro, but im sure if you having warranty problems with 840pro the 850 is still Samsung and probably the same issue.
 
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You have to contact US Samsung SSD Support at 1-800-Samsung (726-7864). They cover all of US and Canada.
 
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