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Apparently a few months ago it became known on the Chinese internet that the 980 Pro, 970 Evo Plus with new controller, and OEM versions are prone to getting un
by mgdlbp 4y ago
Apparently a few months ago it became known on the Chinese internet that the 980 Pro, 970 Evo Plus with new controller, and OEM versions are prone to getting unreadable sectors, where SMART 'Media and Data Integrity Errors' increases on every read attempt.
https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/x82mwe/samsung_ssd_smart_0e_issue/ https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/x82mwe/samsung_ss... https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/x8arle/psa_samsung_980_pro_users_in_china_are_observing/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/x8arle/psa_sam...
How I came across this: Ran into this last week(!) on a 6-month old drive -- but I'm not in China....hmm. Not just one bad batch? Interestingly, it's non deterministic - the data is backed up but trying ddrescue, it occasionally succeeds at reading a few kilobytes from the 5 MB of several runs of 512-16384 bytes that can't be read or written. Curious to see what happens with a firmware update and secure erase.
- voidfunc 4y agoHmm I'm going to need to check my Samsung ssd from oct 2021 that failed the first week of Jan 2023. I had started noticing some quirks in spring 2022 but it wasn't a super important drive so I ignored it.
- Dnguyen 4y agoI have similar issue. It started failing mid last year. Then it got more and more frequent toward the end of the year. Last month I got tired of reinstalling OS for the 4th time and got a new system.
- jamhan 4y agoMy anecdata: tl;dr: All 3 of my Samsung M.2 NVMe SSDs have failed in less than 3 years. 100% failure rate. My first SSD was a 1TB Samsung 970 EVO. It failed after 2 years and 8 months. It was replaced under warranty with a 1TB 970 EVO Plus. That replacement has now also failed after 1 year and 9 months. I bought a 2nd 1TB 970 EVO Plus in May 2019. It has now also failed (2 years and 7 months). Both are expected to be replaced under warranty. The 2 970 EVO Plus SSDs clearly had hardware errors (that were not accurately reflected in SMART data) that caused everything from system hangs, game crashes to file corruption on OTHER drives. I couldn't believe it at first but after 5 days of testing and trial and error, I had it confirmed. As soon as I removed those SSDs, my PC was completely stable again. In the meantime, I have bought a Kingston KC3000 1TB drive as I no longer trust Samsung M.2 NVMe SSDs. On the other hand, I have a Samsung EVO 850 SATA drive which has been rock-solid.
- metadat 4y agoI've bought 6-8 m.2 Samsung 970 EVO Plus and 980s since 2018, and none have failed to date. Anecdata is the worst, I'm sorry to hear about this happening to you. It's surely frustrating and upsetting.
- post-it 4y agoIs it possible that your motherboard or PSU is killing the drives? Could also just be sheer chance, of course.
- scns 4y agoHow does this happen? Got any background info?
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoPoor voltage regulation from the motherboard or power supply could glitch the controller of the drive causing I/O errors or failures.
- piceas 4y agoAs an example, an old Asus board of mine has trouble with modern m2 drives. A PICe m2 adapter solved the problem and the Samsung ssd worked without issues thereafter.
- DriverDaily 4y agoMy anecdata, I have been running 4x 500GB Samsung 850 EVOs in Raid 0 continuously without failures since early 2015.
- AuthorizedCust 4y agoThe parent posts mentioned 970 and 980, not 850.
- Godel_unicode 4y ago
- dheera 4y agoI wonder if Qvo are still subject to the same issues.
- sam0x17 4y agoMy 980 pro failed witihn two months of purchasing it in late 2022
- stevefan1999 4y agoPS: I'm one of the victim with a 970 Evo Plus. The company that provided aftersell services, Lobcom, did not want to provide any RMA services and claimed nothing wrong is found. The scamming company in question: https://zh.lobcomgroup.com/ https://zh.lobcomgroup.com/