Samsung 870 EVO any problems known
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Probably not, it's fairly common for manufacturers to switch the NAND to a newer one (Crucial have done it with the MX500, for example), but given their reputation on hardware forums now, I'd have thought Samsung would take the opportunity to rename them.
This thread is about 870 EVO problems not 970 EVO.
You can upgrade firmware using the iso download.
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I'm aware what this thread is about, but thanks for the advice anyway. Rather than create a separate thread, I'd thought I'd ask in a thread that might get more attention.
Just realized that guide is old. I think you can create a bootable USB stick from the iso using something like rufus.
There is more than one revision of the 970 EVO Plus and they have different controllers, which I assume means they have different firmware (i.e. make really darn sure you're not crossflashing, or it might brick your SSD).
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If we're going slightly off topic, it appears that the Crucial MX500 might have issues with high failure rates now too.
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Also they might have done another bait and switch by switching to garbage QLC NAND on the 2TB and 4TB models.
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Also they might have done another bait and switch by switching to garbage QLC NAND on the 2TB and 4TB models.
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Honestly, and this is coming from someone with 8 mx500 drives (6x1TB and 2x2TB) with the M3CR043 firmware, every brand of drive has the potential to fail.If we're going slightly off topic, it appears that the Crucial MX500 might have issues with high failure rates now too.
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Also they might have done another bait and switch by switching to garbage QLC NAND on the 2TB and 4TB models.
Crystaldiskinfo is saying they're fine, good health etc...
The crucial software is useless though, it doesn't like the M3CR043 firmware and crucial haven't sent out an update to the software either.... what is funny is seatools work with them other than firmware updates lol
I can't say I've noticed any performance differences between my 1TB and 2TB drives and I'm not opening up a drive just to check.
All we can do is ensure we have stuff backed up, something we should be doing anyway...
When did you purchase your MX500's? Drives purchased 5 years ago will probably be totally different to what are sold today because they do silent revisions instead of releasing new models.
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About 6 months for the 1TB and last month for the 2TB, which is within the 'issue window' being mentioned in your links. The revisions don't bother me much because it's pretty standard these days, if it performs as intended then no harm and it still has the (limited) 5 year warranty if it's honoured (we all know how good warranties are at times though). They're also from Mexico which seems to be another 'clue' to the failing ssd's.
I've also got another 120GB one from when they were first released but not too worried over that one, it's in an external caddy.
Like I say I'm not going to lose sleep over it, I could have bought Samsung 870 evo's and be in the same boat of potential failures....a faulty drive can happen with any brand and we should ALWAYS be prepared for it to happen and hope it doesn't.
I'd definitely be happier having got a mx500 than a 870 evo
Especially with not hearing a peep about it from Samsung.
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I've got 250GB 850 and 500GB 860 evo's in my old rig.... I would have normally picked Samsung (870 evo probably) but mx500 are just so much better value at the moment....ignoring all potential problems of course.I'd definitely be happier having got a mx500 than a 870 evo
Occasionally Samsung put the 870 Evo on offer (otherwise it's not competitive, like you say) and that's when I got mine, unfortunately. A cynic might wonder why they put them on offer... bad batch, eh? Have noticed they tend to be priced better of late too, so I wonder if their reputation is starting to get around.
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One would like to think they're passing their savings on etc but we all know that sata SSD's are probably 25-50% higher than they should be cost wise (especially Samsung) so it's likely more about trying to shift sata based stock when more people are moving to nvme. If you think about current trends SSD's are 'commodity parts' when building a pc these days but still seem to be priced with a premium.
Resurrecting this thread since my 1TB 870 EVO just approached death, date of production 10-07-2021 (as in 10th July 2021), at this date it has ECC Error Rate = 4625, with barely 8200 GB (TBW) and 5000 hours, maybe more units are affected than just the first half of 2021. That's sad, I used my warranty to get a new one, hopefully the new ones don't have any problems
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