Posts by TCMuffin 19 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Oct 2009
I remember it well. I started work in 1981 as a trainee programmer with the PO DPE and we relied on the work and followed the standards of the CCTA.
Before my time, the GPO built Colossus and introduced computerised billing to the UK via the LEO 326...the public sector was a shining star in technological developments.
So much for a more secure system...Norton plus the two latest builds (14316 and 14328) cause constant blue screen crashes :-(
Both Norton and Microsoft are blaming the other one...
https://community.norton.com/en/forums/windows-10-build-14316-constant-unexpected-reboot
and
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_wintp-insider_repair/build-14316-crashes-when-idle-for-more-than-10/217042cb-e9c2-4608-95e3-a4f3cba135d9?auth=1
"A response from Samsung Mexico
How the exchange works:
1) We receive your information (You need to do this now)
2) I send you a RMA ticket number within 72 hours of receiving your reply
3) You will then ship the SSD to us.
4) Once it has been signed for at the dock, it takes us 3 to 4 business days for us to exchange the drive. We send it back to you at no cost
5) You receive a recertified SSD (which is a refurbished unit but it is tested by us!)
The (somewhat) fine print:
We will replace your unit with a recertified unit, which works as well as a new unit. This is all we have for exchange
Upgrades cannot be requested either. The full warranty policy is found here.
If you have any other questions, please feel free to email me right away. Our support hours are from 9am-9pm EST Monday to Friday.
Thanks!
David P ௐ
Total Tech Solutions, Inc.
Samsung Factory Service – SSD & Memory Department
E-mail: dpisciotta@totalts.com"
I have Samsung Magician installed (and running) to enable Rapid mode to improve the performance and reliability of my SSDs...and therein may lie the problem...a member of our group has found...
"Oficial FAQ on their [Samsung's] site sais it should be disabled but that information isn't easy to find and should be a warning in magician"
Whatever...Samsung software and firmware have destroyed my 3 week old SSD and that's unacceptable.
We are not idiots...and most of us had backups, e.g. as always, my data was on a separate SSD.
Whatever the individual circumstances, Samsung thought it was appropriate to install fatal firmware on my 3 week old 1Tb £450 SSD!
We have started a FB page to collate the worldwide experience of Samsung 850 PRO users with this deadly firmware update...65 people who have had problems with the firmware update have joined since the group was created yesterday afternoon and if anyone else has an experience they'd like to share, please join us...
https://www.facebook.com/groups/897460120304659/
...and for an encore...Samsung's Magician software has applied a firmware update to the flagship 850 PRO SSD (mine is the 1Tb version costing £450 and is only 3 weeks old) which has destroyed the SSD. Samsung's response is to offload the problem to its service provider Hanaro (http://www.hanarocom.com/) which is asking Samsung customers to RMA the drive (complete with sensitive data) for replacement.
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