

You can head over to Puget Systems' blog if you'd like to read its own remarks on the data. Seems like Samsung really cleaned up its act after the SSD 840 EVO debacle. According to Puget, it has sold over 35,000 Samsung SSDs, and less than 100 of those drives have failed. This is actually the fourth year running that the Korean maker-of-everything's solid-state storage has won the award. Puget concludes the post by awarding its yearly "Most Reliable Hardware" award to Samsung's SSDs, unsurprisingly. There's also a trend that units rated for higher power output are more likely to fail in the field, but that probably has to do with the way those customers are using those machines more than the units themselves. The most notable data point here is that Super Flower power supplies are apparently more reliable than EVGA's units, but that's probably not a surprise to enthusiasts who have been around a while. The last couple days Ive been having some issues when playing RDR2 where my cpu will hit 80-100 usage which Ive never seen before, so I ran this test and this is what I get. Run the Intel Processor Diagnostic Tool <- NOTE that a pass does NOT mean the processor is not the issue though a fail usually does. Finally, the power supply section is only marginally more interesting than the memory section. Intel Processor Diagnostic Tool Fail, help wanted. Check the processor seating, heat sink, and the compound between the processor and the heat sink which are common causes.
