UK: https://web.archive.org/web/20240714070057/https://www.samsu...
US: https://web.archive.org/web/20240714065915/https://www.samsu...
PL: https://web.archive.org/web/20240714065739/https://www.samsu...
On Polish Samsung site same SSD (990 Pro 4TB) is advertised with TBW of 1200TB, while on US and UK sites 2400TB.
As can be found on this screenshot (use google translate) https://forum.ithardware.pl/uploads/monthly_2024_07/Samsung-...
Samsung claims this is not an error on their site, and devices for different markets may have different specs.
Source: https://forum.ithardware.pl/topic/7919-samsung-990-pro-podw%...
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/adata-and-other-ssd-makers...
Samsung have a long history of releasing the same phone with a different SoC in different regions - Snapdragon in the highest-value markets, but slower and less efficient Exynos everywhere else.
https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-exynos-versus-snapd...
Personally I consider the Exynos phones to be better - more customizable, less weird code running in hypervisor mode. Performance is good.
MZ-V9P1T0BW (1TB)
5-year or 600 TBW limited warranty
MZ-V9P2T0BW (2TB)
5-year or 1200 TBW limited warranty
MZ-V9P4T0BW (4TB)
5-year or 2400 TBW limited warranty
It would also explain why the Dutch website lists the 2400TBW number in English.
(For products aimed at general consumer market, approximately no one will look at this parameter at the time of purchase - but they might when the drive fails and they wonder whether they're entitled to a replacement.)
http://web.archive.org/web/20240714091323/https://www.samsun...
The Belgian website (be_NL + be_FR) lists the same high price as the Dutch website as well as the 2400TBW number. I find this interesting, as I would've expected the Belgian websites to be mostly copy/pastes of the Dutch+French websites (as so many sites do to save cost), but it seems like the be_FR variant seems to be based on a different source/translation than the French variant.
What I find interesting is that the performance quotes for most variants stating 2400TBW aren't translated, whereas the websites where the TBW is lower or the price isn't listed seem to have the entire spec page translated.
The Italian website lists and even higher price but also lists 2400TBW in the extended warranty, actually translated for once.
Makes me feel like there are two SKUs around in Europe, a cheaper 1200TBW variant for certain markets, and a 2400TBW variant for others, that's just the American one with its specs copy/pasted.
That doesn't necessarily make it true. There's no guarantee that the clueless underpaid rep whoever claimed that from Samsung's side actually knew what they were talking about or have the contacts of Samsung Semi engineers to ask for correct technical specs or would bother with it even if he could #notmyjob.
It could very well be a typo or copy/paste error that the rep can't verify so they double down on it being correct (our company doesn't make mistakes policy) with the excuse of different markets since product segmentation is a real thing even if it might not apply here.
The difference between UK pricing and Polish pricing (the lowest difference I could find that has a TBW stated) seems to be about 300zł, but other EU locations stating the 2400TBW number are more expensive than both of those.
They should've made v9p4t0bw-1200 and v9p4t0bw-2400 product lines. This is just disingenuous. Without a different model number, people buying in/importing from countries with the 2400TBW variants listed on Samsung's website now need to look out for scammers selling cheaper foreign products with exactly the same model number for the higher price.
I would say it's just because they are allowed to do so and EU open market kinda enforce that.
You can deduce the TBW from SMART data. That would be an interesting comparison between the products sold in the two countries.
This may not reflect actual price in third party stores, but at nearly 25%, the price difference could explain the difference in rated TBW.