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I used to work in their SSD vertical on the software side. For what it's worth, SSD/memory business unit is their pride. They never used to cut corners and do r
by option_greek 5y ago
I used to work in their SSD vertical on the software side. For what it's worth, SSD/memory business unit is their pride. They never used to cut corners and do rigorous testing to ensure their customers aren't screwed over. Even when a bad batch of SSDs were shipped by mistake, they would recall/refund all of them proactively. When ever a new model is released, they would first ship limited units to a set of SSD enthusiasts including gamers in Korea. One such time, there was a BSOD reported by a single tester in some edge case - > they sent a lot of team members in person to chase and fix that issue.
So I really doubt they would do anything stupid to get some quick bucks at the cost of reputation.
On the other hand, their smart tv division is absolute garbage and employees themselves wouldn't buy Samsung TVs.
- treyfitty 5y agoSamsung’s pride and butter is their SSD group? I find that hard to believe… they provide a range of products, including cars (they dominate the SKorean auto market), as well as financial services (in S Korea). In America, they have TVs, and cell phones. I find it very hard to believe SSDs are their pride and butter
- nitinreddy88 5y agoAmerica doesn’t represent world. In asian countries, Samsung and WD controls almost entire SSD market
- philliphaydon 5y agoI see like no advertising for Samsung or WD SSDs in Singapore and Taiwan. The last advert I saw was Silicon Power which I believe is Taiwanese?
- bluerival 5y agoWhat is pride and butter?
- gregd 5y agoI think they meant bread & butter? But OP only used the word "pride", so yeah, it's a little confusing what this commenter meant.
- Cederfjard 5y agoI think it should be read as a contraction of ”pride, and bread and butter”.
- mhb 5y agoOr a portmanteau of "pride and joy" and "bread and butter".
- option_greek 5y agoTo be specific Samsung Electronics group's than Samsung the parent company as there are several verticals apart from Electronics.
- sho_hn 5y agoSamsung does not dominate the South Korean car market. They own an important supplier in Harman and they're doing their best to sell automotive grade SKUs of their Exynos SoCs, but they don't act significantly as an OEM or anything.
- leokennis 5y agoHow are Samsung Smart TV’s garbage? I mean, they have ads and crap in some markets but so do all their competitors. I have a Samsung TV which has great picture quality, decent design and plenty of useful options for a very reasonable price.
- option_greek 5y agoIn meant in terms of durability and quality. We used to by a lot of Samsung electronics (along with TVs) through employee discounts and the failure rates among the TVs are always high. So much so that we used to joke about that there is a "if condition" that some how causes the pcb to fail in first month after first year (TVs used to have 1 year warranty).
- hkmurakami 5y agoI mean, Sony also has a long reputation with similar issues — dubbed the Sony Timer
- lotsofpulp 5y agoMy perception of Sony is that they sell higher quality products. Sometimes only slightly higher, maybe not enough to offset the price premium if there is one, but I assume all their higher end stuff is top notch.
- traceroute66 5y ago> but I assume all their higher end stuff is top notch. From my unscientific sample, yes. The Sony Master series of OLED TV's (e.g. A9) are IMHO, most likely the best TV you can buy at the moment. I've seen them side-by-side next to high-end Panasonic kit, and whilst the Panasonics put on a good show compared to your average TV, the high-end Sony's are noticeably better. The Sony firmware also seems to behave more consistently with HDMI auto-switching than the Panasonics. Sometimes you ended up having to switch manually on the Panasonic because whatever automagic was meant to happen didn't happen.
- shadilay 5y agoIt's data storage so it absolutely has to work every time. No one would buy a faulty SSD that loses their data.
- upbeat_general 5y agoWell not exactly. People buy hard drives that are known to fail earlier than others and SSDs that wear out quicker than others. However, ignoring data loss there are many ways to have a less performant drive that still doesn't lose data. Tons of people buy those.
- conradfr 5y agoSad as their dumb TVs were (are) great.
- reacharavindh 5y agoA serious question. I use a “Smart TV” without any internet connectivity whatsoever. Never let it connect to my WiFi, neither did I connect Ethernet. This way I am happily enjoying a high quality “dumb TV” that I always wanted. Are all the complainers in HN really letting their TV connect to Internet (inspire of knowing all the crap TV manufacturers have been pulling all these years?!)
- comprev 5y agoMy TV required connectivity during setup and then removed the config afterwards. About a week later I noticed the "home screen" showing adverts and somehow the Android TV had "auto-magically" reconnected. Had to change the WiFi password to avoid reconnecting. That reaffirmed my stance on Smart TVs remaining dumb in my house. Netflix through the Xbox only!
- wickoff 5y agoI watch YouTube and play music through my TV. I have no choice.
- gambiting 5y ago....how? There are literally hundreds of devices that will offer YouTube playback and music for as little as £30-40. Whether it's a good idea or not is a different matter entirely, but the notion that you "have no choice" is just silly. Is someone forcing you to watch YouTube through your TV?
- JohnJamesRambo 5y agoIs there a difference in your tv spying on you and those devices spying on you? I don’t mean this to sound confrontational or rhetorical, I really don’t know.
- forty 5y agoYou can install a good OS which doesn't spy on you on external devices.
- ComputerGuru 5y agoA better contrast is the night and day difference between Samsung SSDs and Samsung SD cards. The former are among best in class and the latter are among the worst in class and notorious for dying mighty fast in Raspberry Pis and DSLRs (going read-only). (Best SD cards are probably from Sandisk.)
- grumpyprole 5y agoIs this anecdotal? I had two sandisk cards die in a Samsung Galaxy phone in succession. I've never had a problem since I switched to using Samsung SD cards.
- ComputerGuru 5y agoSorry, I should have been more specific. Sandisk Extreme, in particular. It’s not anecdotal but “common knowledge” in certain circles. I believe the more recent Samsung SD cards are better, but the older ones were basically notorious.
- bayindirh 5y agoI'm using a Samsung SD card on my OrangePi Zero for more than a year 7/24/365, and it's very stable so far. However, nothing is as durable as SanDisk and Sony high end (Extreme Pro in SanDisk terminology) cards. My old CF is still kicking and a pair of 64GB cards in my mirrorless doesn't care what I pump into them (all of them are SanDisk).