Samsung SSDs Dying! 980 Pro, 990, 970 EVO PLUS, PM9A1 And More

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I am surprised nothing has been posted here on this issue, unless i have missed it,

having only just bought a Synology NAS, I subscribe to this place, and this dropped in my email box,


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Samsung SSDs Dying! 980 Pro, 990, 970 EVO PLUS, PM9A1 and More Reporting Failures - Everything We Know So Far!

Samsung SSD Failure Reports Increasing - What is happening? Note, Feb 15/02/23 - There is Updated Information on the Samsung M.2 NVMe SSD Firmware Issue. You can find out more in the article and video below: Samsung 990 Pro SSD Firmware Failures UPDATED Video - HERE Samsung 990 Pro SSD Failures U
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i bought 2 980 Pro NVME drives in Nov, waiting to install them, a little worried they are affected, although their serial numbers dont come up in this article,

so crossing my fingers
 
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Samsung Targets Gamers With 3 Extremely Fast 990 Pro NVMe SSDs

This is true. And I should have waited really to see those benchmarks. I alway buy Samsung SSDs but the 990 pro isn't out yet. I just bought a 5800x3d and even on that I should have waited for Black Friday. But still the sn850x is cheaper, comes with heat sink and according to her is the fast...
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They recomnmend updating the 980 Pro firmware to 5B2QGXA7, seems that firmware has been out for a long time, since Jan 2022. As I update my firmware regularly that probably explains why my 2TB 980 Pro that I bought Nov 2021 is showing as 99% health after 28TB written. Pretty sure my drive had the dodgy 3B2QGXA7 firmware when I had it but I must have written 5TB with that firmware without any drops in health. My 980 Pro serial number S69ENF0R is showing up though in that article.

Thankfully my more recent 870 QVO 8TB isn't affected by this issue, 12TB written to that with 99% health left. Definitely avoiding Samsung drives for a while though.
 
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Raiden85 said:
They recomnmend updating the 980 Pro firmware to 5B2QGXA7, seems that firmware has been out for a long time, since Jan 2022. As I update my firmware regularly that probably explains why my 2TB 980 Pro that I bought Nov 2021 is showing as 99% health after 28TB written. Pretty sure my drive had the dodgy 3B2QGXA7 firmware when I had it but I must have written 5TB with that firmware without any drops in health. My 980 Pro serial number S69ENF0R is showing up though in that article.

Thankfully my more recent 870 QVO 8TB isn't affected by this issue, 12TB written to that with 99% health left. Definitely avoiding Samsung drives for a while though.
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oh thats promising if your 980pro was on that list, glad it seems to be ok on the later F/W,

what are your read right speeds like ?
 
MaDMaX** said:
oh thats promising if your 980pro was on that list, glad it seems to be ok on the later F/W,

what are your read right speeds like ?
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It's used as a backup drive in an enclosure these days, but I did run it for a few months as my main drive on that newer firmware and speeds were always great. It's used to clone my main 2TB SN850 every month so about 1.1TB gets written each time and it's still a healthy drive.
 
Raiden85 said:
It's used as a backup drive in an enclosure these days, but I did run it for a few months as my main drive on that newer firmware and speeds were always great. It's used to clone my main 2TB SN850 every month so about 1.1TB gets written each time and it's still a healthy drive.
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Thanks again, thats reassuring to know, i probably will just try mine, feeling a little uneasy about selling them to someone unknowingly, £400 is not chimp change, And at least i can RMA them if they go bust
 
That's interesting, I had to replace the Samsung M2 drive in my wife's laptop recently after it died. It went through a few weeks of sudden blue screens followed by a 'no boot device' message, and eventually wasn't detected at all. Will have to check if it's on the list.
 
Just checked my 970 Pro 512Gb and its done 35TB and its perfectly fine, I recently installed Samsung Magician and updated the firmware. I'm not sure if its related but dont do it if it comes up just in case.
 
My 970 Evo Plus 1TB is not affected so all good there, 41TBW+ and still 99% remaining. The 990 pro 2Tb however.... the linked trhead above explains all :cry:

I've since moved to Sabrent NVMe drives as well now, but the 870 QVO 8TB SATA I still use which is now a backups drive in a USB 3.1 enclosure. Health on that reads 99% with 23TBW.
 
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Over 2,000 Samsung 980 Pro SSDs failed! :eek:

When I bought Samsung 980 Pro 2TB back in Black Friday 2021, the first thing I did with it was to checked Samsung Magician for new firmware, it had original firmware 3B2QGXA7 and updated to latest firmware 4B2QGXA7 then cloned old hard disk to it. Then in January 2022 Samsung Magician alerted me a new firmware update 5B2QGXA7 was available and I downloaded it and updated it.

That over 2,000 idiots who never installed Samsung Magician to updated firmware to latest version.

I am shocked read lots of comments that so many people didnt updated firmware to latest version thanked Jay after watched video and now updated firmware to latest version. :eek:
:o
 
AthlonXP1800 said:

Over 2,000 Samsung 980 Pro SSDs failed! :eek:

When I bought Samsung 980 Pro 2TB back in Black Friday 2021, the first thing I did with it was to checked Samsung Magician for new firmware, it had original firmware 3B2QGXA7 and updated to latest firmware 4B2QGXA7 then cloned old hard disk to it. Then in January 2022 Samsung Magician alerted me a new firmware update 5B2QGXA7 was available and I downloaded it and updated it.

That over 2,000 idiots who never installed Samsung Magician to updated firmware to latest version.

I am shocked read lots of comments that so many people didnt updated firmware to latest version thanked Jay after watched video and now updated firmware to latest version. :eek:
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First thing I do is always update my devices to the latest firmware whether I need to or not, and even though my 980 Pro 2TB was on the bad list of serials I had already updated it to the latest firmware at the time a long time ago so I got to avoid this crap and still have a very healthy drive with many terabytes written.

WD also updated the SN850X in the last few days which seems to have fixed "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\RaidPort0", didn't have that issue on my 4TB version thankfully but I updated anyway. Same for motherboard/GPU BIOS updates, always best to stay updated.
 
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Defiant306 said:
Ordered a 4TB WD SN850X, opened the package from the selling forest company to find the seal sliced open on the packaging, someone stole the drive!
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Does happen from the forest now and then. It's rare and they always correct the issue, but it is interesting to wonder who has access to the products in the warehouse.
 
AthlonXP1800 said:
That over 2,000 idiots who never installed Samsung Magician to updated firmware to latest version.

I am shocked read lots of comments that so many people didnt updated firmware to latest version thanked Jay after watched video and now updated firmware to latest version. :eek:
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To be fair, one doesn't expect the firmware to be so bad it bricks the drive :D
 
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