Anyone had an SSD die?

Jamin280672 · 2 Sep 2018 at 23:22

I had an old OCZ 60gb SSD die years ago, when they were stupid expensive, only about a year or so old, RMA'd it with OCZ themselves back then and they sent me back a 90gb drive.

Evosparki · 18 Sep 2018 at 22:40

So far I've not had any SSD's die or issue's (fingers crossed keep up the trend). All Samsung's:
3x 830 Evo's I've forgot which sizes (built for my nephews and a friends PC's) they're still going strong since year 2011/2.
2x 840 Evo 250GB since October 2013.
1x 850 Evo 1TB since March 2017.

This December getting 2x 970 Evo 1TB, and maybe 3x 860 Evo 1TB.

BluD · 18 Sep 2018 at 22:58

I've been using an old OCZ Vertex sata 2 drive for many years, i remember reading about their controllers dying left right and center when i bought it but its still running great now so i guess i got lucky. I've never seen an SSD die yet from anyone i know so i guess they dont die often

ic1male · 21 Sep 2018 at 16:34

I nearly had kittens moments ago when installing a new SSD. The SATA connectors felt really fragile and then booting into Windows, nothing showed up. Luckily, it was there in Disk Management but uninitialised. I'm used to drives being formatted ready to go!

Duke · 21 Sep 2018 at 19:21

Not had an SSD die yet, mostly due to changing them most years since having them as the capacity and speeds increased and prices dropped. I think now though with a 240GB OS/Prog drive and a 1TB for games I will be keeping these two much longer.

Paradiso · 24 Sep 2018 at 13:01

Had a couple of the first generation OCZ ssds die, and this week my SanDisk 480GB is now locking up the PC completely intermittantly, at least I think its that as it happens mostly in games on that drive. Checked SanDisk software and indeed the drive is showing serious SMART errors :/

chrcoluk · 24 Sep 2018 at 13:03

No but I have picked my drives carefully e.g. never owned a ocz drive.

Admiral Huddy · 24 Sep 2018 at 13:03

I'm pretty sure mine is on the way out although diagnostics via SMART say it's in good health.

adidan · 24 Sep 2018 at 14:26

Fortunately no.

I still have an M4 64gb that worked last time I checked going on 7 years old, although that very rarely sees any use.

Beasty · 24 Sep 2018 at 14:51

Had 2 OCZ Vertex die and one Samsung 840. Hurrah for warranties!

BluD · 26 Sep 2018 at 18:13

Beasty said:
Had 2 OCZ Vertex die and one Samsung 840. Hurrah for warranties!

I guess your the unlucky sod theyve been selling all the duff drives to so the rest of us didnt have problems