I LOST 100% of my 250 GB data with SERIOUS WORK ON IT. This is NOT professional from SAMSUNG. I WANED YOU.
So... you entrusted your serious work to one drive?
Seems to me a professional would take his work seriously enough to at least employ a backup. If you're making money off it, surely you can at least afford a $60 portable drive. Computer based work 101 dictates that you should expect your most needed components/software to fail you right when you most need them not to... ...usually right when you're in the middle of something mission-critical. Setting up a backup routine is simple and it takes nerves of steel to operate without one. Operating a business out in the real world, you have to make sure your assets are adequately protected. That's your lifeblood. And when your data is your most important asset, it might not be such a bad idea to throw some money into protecting it. And if you don't have it, you might wanna rethink your whole business plan. It'd be like running a storefront and skimping on door locks.
You have nobody to blame but yourself. All storage mediums fail - it's just a matter of when. But never when you want them to. I'm sorry that happened to you. Data loss is a nightmare. But that's not Samsung's fault. It's the nature of the beast. SSD's don't fail like HDD's. They tend to fail abruptly. Just because Samsung makes some of the best drives out there doesn't mean they can't fail just like any other. Samsung has done a lot to push this technology forward. They have helped make huge leaps in longevity, speed, and reliability. But nobody said it was perfect tech. "Reliability" is a relative term, not an absolute one. SSD's are still very, very new. The occasional failure is expected. Even the best engineers out there haven't found a way around some of the more common causes of failure. If you've got the answer, I'm sure there are many companies who will gladly set you up for life just for access.
You just won't find a drive that doesn't fail man... ...not now and probably not ever. C'mon now.
I stayed away from SSD's for a long time because of failure rates. Nowadays they're pretty good. I still keep an empty partition on my main HDD just to dump a nightly backup into, just in case it dies on me tomorrow. I sleep easy.
I think they've broken the law then, somewhere. Your warranty is with the product, not the flamin' box. Find the warranty terms and conditions which I'm sure have no such condition and throw it at them. See what they say then.
