Caporegime
My 980 pro is at 96% at just over a year and around 16Tb of writes.
Samsung SSDs Dying! 980 Pro, 990, 970 EVO PLUS, PM9A1 And More
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Man of Honour
I used to check every month for FW updates in Magician, just in case as heard about the 980 issues so wasn't chancing it even though I only had a 970 Evo Plus and 870 QVO. Will still check but I don't use Magician any more so will manually check the Samsung FW page although after 21TBW I don't think it's going to have any issues really.
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Soldato
I had a number of SSD's fail, and I think they were all 870's. What was very suspicious about the failures was the way they failed and the fact that even when utterly broken, Samsung Magician still said they were OK.
To this day, I don't know what was wrong with them, other than they really slowed down. Eventually to a point where certain operations would never complete. Yet they checked out just fine and had a small amount of use.
This is not the first batch of Samsung drives that have done this. I, certainly, am not finding them as reliable as they are supposed to be.
To this day, I don't know what was wrong with them, other than they really slowed down. Eventually to a point where certain operations would never complete. Yet they checked out just fine and had a small amount of use.
This is not the first batch of Samsung drives that have done this. I, certainly, am not finding them as reliable as they are supposed to be.
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Man of Honour
My 990 Pro is still going strong I am happy to report!
For some reason, a lot of software failed to notice that these drives were degrading, but I think CrystalDiskInfo was updated and it now recognises the 870 Evo issues from the SMART data.
Been trying to back up my gaming PC.
Macrium has been failing so I've ran a diagnostic check with Samsung magician.
And got this
Is only written 10tb
Recovery crashes.. hoping I can clone it... going to order another Samsung as magician won't clone Samsung to sabrent which I have installed already
Macrium has been failing so I've ran a diagnostic check with Samsung magician.
And got this
Is only written 10tb
Recovery crashes.. hoping I can clone it... going to order another Samsung as magician won't clone Samsung to sabrent which I have installed already
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supposedly good endurance.
MLC type.
still only sata speed though, so for large backups. can be slow. :-/ i use it for backups. ...and i still use spinning rust drives...also for backups.
have just one nvme. older 970 evo 1TB gen 3. no troubles with it.
Still deciding what the next one will be. been thinking about Crucial gen4
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Man of Honour
Yes my 8TB QVO SATA is still at like 100%
The 990 now is at 96% since my last posting, too many game installs since then
Not bothered about the temp as it's normal, my Evo Plus 1TB was similar and remained high 90% range into 5yrs ownership etc.
The 990 now is at 96% since my last posting, too many game installs since then
Not bothered about the temp as it's normal, my Evo Plus 1TB was similar and remained high 90% range into 5yrs ownership etc.
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That's what a failing 870 Evo looks like, have you been running the latest firmware?
Yeah all latest firmware
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970EVO Plus here 1TB PCIE 3.0x4
Power on hours: 7504
Total Host Reads: 10713 GB
Total Host Writes: 17746 GB
Power on count: 325
idle temp 45C
crystaldisk info shows 100%
have overprovisioning (unallocated) of around 140GB
single 'partition'
i have left this pc on for days at a time. over the years. and at other times it has been not in use. installed in 2019, close to product release date.
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this thread makes me wonder what the most reliable samsung nvme would be these days?
I also have an 850 Pro. SSD sata. that thing is indestructible. and the caching feature is top notch. (it uses up to 4GB of system RAM for caching) plus a 10 yr warranty. it boots up faster than the nvme evo
Power on hours: 7504
Total Host Reads: 10713 GB
Total Host Writes: 17746 GB
Power on count: 325
idle temp 45C
crystaldisk info shows 100%
have overprovisioning (unallocated) of around 140GB
single 'partition'
i have left this pc on for days at a time. over the years. and at other times it has been not in use. installed in 2019, close to product release date.
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this thread makes me wonder what the most reliable samsung nvme would be these days?
I also have an 850 Pro. SSD sata. that thing is indestructible. and the caching feature is top notch. (it uses up to 4GB of system RAM for caching) plus a 10 yr warranty. it boots up faster than the nvme evo
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I think the original Evo Plus was unaffected by the issues which hit the later model/revision, so by that measure, it'd be one of the more reiiable ones.
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in my opinion it is the amount of writes reads that will wear out the 'cells'. something in an idle state isnt really doing much.
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For drives affected by the published issues (they can die in other ways, like any other SSD) then I believe it is writes that causes the degradation, not how long they were powered on. For the 870 Evo, bad blocks would start to appear after around 5TB and by 10TB you'd know there were problems, due to read errors and file corruption. If the firmware was originally the faulty version, then some bad blocks would remain on the drive, even once the firmware was patched (i.e. it doesn't fix any damage already caused).
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and last night windows had a BSOD
upon rebooting my PC entered the bios.
I exited the bios, it entered the bios again...
I looked at what the bios said was connected to my PC and my Samsung 980pro 1tb drive was missing from the list...
I turned my pc off and back on and it came back...
I guess its a dying drive that needs replacing even if software thinks its fine...
I had similar with an old kingston ssd ... half the time it wouldn't show up on bootup or it would randomly disconnect from my PC.
I guess my samsung will start doing the same now
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