Are nvme drives inferior quality

MCFC_ANDY

MCFC_ANDY

MCFC_ANDY

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I have had 2 nvme drives in 6 months, both have failed, a Samsung and sabrent rocket one
Are these just a poor quality or am I just unlucky.
My normal ssd's have been going for years with out an issue.


Just not sure if worth buying any more.
 
SonicSW20 said:
They can run hot. Are they getting any airflow where they are located in your system?
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They were getting airflow, I did think as very near my vega64 was thinking heat from that could be a cause, but I leave case open and have 3 fans in case for cooling.
Maybe I'm just unlucky
 
MCFC_ANDY said:
I have had 2 nvme drives in 6 months, both have failed, a Samsung and sabrent rocket one
Are these just a poor quality or am I just unlucky.
My normal ssd's have been going for years with out an issue.


Just not sure if worth buying any more.
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Which drives exactly are the ones that failed mate
 
alex h said:
Which drives exactly are the ones that failed mate
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A Samsung 970 iirc and a sabrent rocket512gb both refunded, Samsung failed first the tried the other one. Both lasted 6 months or slightly less. Twice bitten so to speak. Not sure to call it a day in nvme and stay 2.5 sad.
 
Ok they both have good reliability according to the web you must have been unlucky or there's something else causing them to die but apart from heat which you've already ruled out I don't know what to suggest
 
alex h said:
Ok they both have good reliability according to the web you must have been unlucky or there's something else causing them to die but apart from heat which you've already ruled out I don't know what to suggest
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Cheers, may just be bad luck. It's weird in all yrs in computing, we talking 20plus yrs since my first build I only ever had 2 HDD failures in all that time, no SSD failures. Soon as I switch to nvme it, I get hit with 2 of them lol.

Cheers again
 
MCFC_ANDY said:
Cheers, may just be bad luck. It's weird in all yrs in computing, we talking 20plus yrs since my first build I only ever had 2 HDD failures in all that time, no SSD failures. Soon as I switch to nvme it, I get hit with 2 of them lol.

Cheers again
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Ive had 1 hard drive fail that was a crucial ssd in about 20 years I've got a 10 year old wd black still going strong
 
Bad luck I'd say OR a voltage problem in the system? Heat wouldn't kill them unless they're constantly at 70 plus degrees all their life and unless benchmarking or moving GB's of data 100% of the time they don;t ru hot at all, mine are at 30 degrees rising to high 40's on benchmarks so, I just don't see that.

Ruling anything I cvan think of, was both NMV'e on the same M2 slot on motherboard or you got more than 1 slot? I'm astounded both have failed that quickly, especially the Sammy but I've got two rockets myself and don't fancy either failing lol
 
pugheaven said:
Bad luck I'd say OR a voltage problem in the system? Heat wouldn't kill them unless they're constantly at 70 plus degrees all their life and unless benchmarking or moving GB's of data 100% of the time they don;t ru hot at all, mine are at 30 degrees rising to high 40's on benchmarks so, I just don't see that.

Ruling anything I cvan think of, was both NMV'e on the same M2 slot on motherboard or you got more than 1 slot? I'm astounded both have failed that quickly, especially the Sammy but I've got two rockets myself and don't fancy either failing lol
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only have one slot, so both used same slot, thinking of changing the board, but the tomahawk has been a great board. im going toi leave the slot empty for a while, and maybe upgrade to new 4th gen ryzen
 
not had a nvme m2 fail yet got 3 running
oldest ones a samsung sm951
forget how many years have had it but its got
17228 hours powered on
64TB read
43TB written
so its certainly seen a bit of action lol
 
Mcnumpty2323 said:
not had a nvme m2 fail yet got 3 running
oldest ones a samsung sm951
forget how many years have had it but its got
17228 hours powered on
64TB read
43TB written
so its certainly seen a bit of action lol
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I wish my spinpoint f1 1tb wasn't in a raid config right now, its smart data is epic and it's still healthy I think last time I looked it was about 15 years old.
 
Vince said:
I wish my spinpoint f1 1tb wasn't in a raid config right now, its smart data is epic and it's still healthy I think last time I looked it was about 15 years old.
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wow nice
i bought the sm951 as soon as they came out
so guess that makes it 5 years old now
and powered on 2/5 or 40% of that 5 years
not too shabby
though i still have a samsung 830 2.5ssd which is about
8 years old and going strong still so the nvme has bit of catching up
to do until that
 
Mcnumpty2323 said:
wow nice
i bought the sm951 as soon as they came out
so guess that makes it 5 years old now
and powered on 2/5 or 40% of that 5 years
not too shabby
though i still have a samsung 830 2.5ssd which is about
8 years old and going strong still so the nvme has bit of catching up
to do until that
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I gave my 951 to @Armageus bet thats got some use on it as well :) was working perfectly still though. As most in here never had an nvme fail yet mind you that f1 is well, well past what you would consider a good life. Im keeping it until it finally gives up. Think I got it when I was about 16/17, I'm 35 now. It's currently a storage drive but I set it up as raid for some reason as a single disk alongside my nvme raid array.
 
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