The first letters name the appliance
A Samsung model number opens with a family code and it is the fastest way to tell what a machine
is before anybody looks at it. RF is a French door refrigerator, RS
a side-by-side, RT a top-freezer, RB a bottom-freezer and
RZ the convertible upright freezer. WF and WA are
front-load and top-load washers, WD a washer-dryer combination. DVE
and DVG are electric and gas dryers. NX and NE are
ranges, NV and NQ wall ovens, NZ cooktops,
NK hoods, ME and MG microwaves, and
DW dishwashers. Read the first two or three characters and you already know which
of this site’s eleven appliances you are on.
What comes after the letters, and what the slash means
The digits that follow are capacity and series rather than a date, and the trailing letters are
the finish — SS for stainless, MT for matte black steel, WW for white. The suffix after the slash,
usually /AA, is the region code. The plate on your appliance may show it and this site does
not: NX60A6511SS/AA and NX60A6511SS are the same range, and searching for either finds the same
page.
Why the list is not one page per finish
Samsung’s own US catalog carries around three hundred products across the appliances on this
site, and a large share of that number is the same machine in another color. Bespoke makes it more
so: the door panels come off and change, and a Bespoke refrigerator in white glass and the same
model in stainless are one appliance and one repair. Publishing every finish would be publishing one
machine several times and having our own pages compete with each other, so the list here is one page
per model family, chosen to cover every appliance and every current line — Bespoke, Family Hub, Flex
Duo, FlexWash, StormWash, WaterWall. If your exact finish code is not on the list, the page for your
family is still the right page.
Where the number is, and why we ask for it first
Refrigerators carry it inside, on the left wall of the fresh-food compartment. Washers and dryers
have it inside the door opening or on the back panel. Ranges and wall ovens print it on the frame
behind the door. Dishwashers put it on the edge of the door where you can only see it with the door
open. It matters more on this make than on most, because four of the codes Samsung publishes mean
two different things depending on the model — dC, 3E and BE2 on washers,
and 1E on dishwashers — and the model number is what settles which reading applies.