M.2 becomes unavailable when reading lots of data

[illuz]

I bought an m.2 SSD for storing large videos to render. Whenever I've been using this drive for rendering, it just freezes randomly, the rendering stops and the drive becomes unavailable - even in Disk Manager.

Drive health says it's alright, I've updated SATA drivers, I've updated the firmware on the drive, Samsung SSD Magician says its in good health, it's only had 4.5TB written to it!

Has anyone experienced this before, and it not been a faulty drive? It's so intermittent... Sometimes the renders get through fine even. I only have problems reading in large amounts (rendering).

Don't really want to have to get a new one, this is pretty much new and barely used but hey ho

edit // just moved the videos to another drive and tried a render (After failing 6 or so times) - went through first time. damn I need a new drive don't I.

 

[illuz]

SATA drivers won't matter if it's an NVMe SSD, but you can usually install a Samsung-specific NVMe driver.

Would also worth trying a motherboard BIOS update.

If it's new it'll be under warranty, so there shouldn't be an issue with getting a replacement.

Yeah I've emailed the UK support line.

Might take a look at BIOS update too. I'm looking for a Samsung NVMe driver now cheers. // edit - Samsung doesn't have a driver for my model (MZ-V8V1T0BW - 980 1TB)

Drive controller getting too hot?

Nope it's not that. Works flawless right until I do some heavy reading with it no matter the temperature outside or not - I get why you're saying this though, it's bloomin' rosstin!