[TeMPOraL]

I imagine it's because Poland, and EU in general, is serious about consumer protection. When they set the TBW to 2400TB, there's X% of drives that will fail under that, requiring warranty service. That X% might be OK in the US, but too expensive for them in Poland, so they slice the TBW in half, reducing failure-within-warranty % to a small fraction of X (it's non-linear), and call it a day.

(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.)

[the4anoni]

On Samsung's Netherlands website they also declare 2400 TBW.

http://web.archive.org/web/20240714091323/https://www.samsun...

[jeroenhd]

The Dutch website also lists a significantly higher price. The German version is similarly priced to the Polish one, but doesn't seem to list a TBW guarantee at all. The French website lists neither a price nor a TBW number.

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.

[az226]

Or the higher price is to accommodate the returns/RMA of the failed drives.

[jeroenhd]

Could be, but as I've stated elsewhere, it could also just be a localisation mistake. Samsung sells 990 Pro SSDs rated for 1200TBW, but that's the 2TB version.