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I cant remember how old my 980 pro is or where I bought it, cant find the reciept but I never had any isues updating the firmware when used in main M.2 slot OS drive. I just checked & Im on 5B2QGXA7. Actually I did just find the box however & the production date is 2/14/2021. Never had any issues with the drive but I may need to rethink my loyalty to Samsung & research TBW/Endurance on current NVME drives & manufacturers EDIT: I just noticed that my 2 year old 980 pro 1tb has less writes on it than my less than 2 month old 990 pro 1tb! Whats up with that? Assuming SMART is accurate. Both drives were used as OS drives with hibernate turned off & similar windows settings. Samsung claims both drives are 600 TBW, smh

Of course Seagate is NOT better than Samsung, dont believe evrything you read. This business about failing Samsung SSD's is new to me. I own & have owned many 2.5's & many NVME Samsung SSD's including the 980 pros & 990 Pros for many years & have NOT had a solid state drive fail on me since 1 Samsung 840 pro failed on me a LONG time ago. The bit about Samsung no longer using MLC NAND in their Pro drives is true & unfortunate but Im willing to bet Samsung's TLC NAND is light years ahead of & more reliable than any other on the market.