don't mention it.

1. for no. 1, you can ask the shop to help verify if the unit is a local. they should know someone that can help doing that;
2. for no. 3, they are local distributors. if it's a local unit, most probably they are the one who distribute it. if it's a parallel import, then they should find that out and take necessary actions, because such acts are hurting their own sales as a local distributor;
3. for no. 4, you're correct that there is no related warranty information about ssd. what i meant was that sme is the official rep for samsung here. although it's not stated in the warranty information, they must be aware of their own products selling locally, including their own ssds. if they cannot help you by at least leading you to the right direction on how to claim the warranty of their own products, who else can?

sorry i didn't mention it correctly in the previous post. by right in the case of samsung ssds, the seller shall honor the full warranty of what they sell. (not only for the first year, but also for the rest of the warranty period. note that all valid sellers are responsible for helping their customers to claim samsung ssd's warranty, and they know how to do that) that's the main reason why samsung keep telling people to go back to the shop from which the ssd was purchased. (for this part, you can just call samsung hotline and get it verified easily; that's the actual procedure as of now here) as a buyer, the key point here is to keep the proof of purchase like invoice for this purpose. since your seller is telling you nonsense (even further reduce the warranty to 1 year only, and seemed reluctant to help at all after that), i think it's worthwhile for you to report this, and seek their help for the possibility to have other alternative ways to claim the warranty.