Are nvme drives inferior quality

MCFC_ANDY · 14 May 2020 at 13:27

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.

MCFC_ANDY · 14 May 2020 at 13:47

SonicSW20 said:
They can run hot. Are they getting any airflow where they are located in your system?

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 · 14 May 2020 at 14:39

alex h said:
Which drives exactly are the ones that failed mate

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.

MCFC_ANDY · 14 May 2020 at 14:49

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

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 · 14 May 2020 at 15:40

alex h said:
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

With luck like that I would start buying lottery tickets

MCFC_ANDY · 14 May 2020 at 20:37

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

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