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> One time I had two NVMe drives in two different machines do this to me the same week. I had been buying silicon power drives and they all failed prematurely

> One time I had two NVMe drives in two different machines do this to me the same week. I had been buying silicon power drives and they all failed prematurely (9 months at the longest). I switched to Samsungs and never had a single drive fail in years now.

Modified3019 2y ago
The cheap Samsung enterprise m.2 drives you see on eBay have been trouble for me and others. The things have a tendency to suddenly fail with the firmware version displaying as “ERRORMOD” (error mode) and only showing 1GB of unusable space. They can potentially be put back into a usable state, but it’s 100% data loss when you see that message. Samsung’s consumer and enterprise SSD departments were (unsure if still true) basically separate entities that didn’t talk with each other, which was further confused and compounded by the OEM customized firmware nonsense which results in a lot of great hardware essentially having buggy firmware with no fixes. I believe their very latest (non OEM) enterprise m.2 drives have streamlined the availability of updating the firmware, so the problem is seemingly less for those. For the silicon power drives, if they just suddenly stopped showing up, then you may try doing a power cycle to see if that brings them back: https://dfarq.homeip.net/fix-dead-ssd/ https://dfarq.homeip.net/fix-dead-ssd/ I’ve had Intel and consumer Samsung drives I’ve brought back with power cycling. Older NVMe Drives seem especially prone to becoming unresponsive in older NVMe enclosures. Seems like less of an issue these days though.
- jjeaff 2y ago
  I would never trust a drive bought on eBay or Amazon unless I could verify the specific seller. There are a lot of Samsung fakes out there.
- upon_drumhead 2y ago
  The silicon power drives all went read-only. Power cycling never brought them back, and they had various levels of lost. It was clear at least one chip failed and the drive was doing it's best to at least let me recover what I could off of it, but given how many went this way, I just gave up entirely on the brand. I've only bought the pro level of the Samsung consumer drives (nvme m.2) and they've been stellar. I have no experience with their enterprise drives. I also wouldn't buy drives off of eBay. I don't think of eBay as cheaper than amazon/b&h/etc, and the risk of a fake is just so much higher on eBay.

Modified3019 2y ago

The cheap Samsung enterprise m.2 drives you see on eBay have been trouble for me and others. The things have a tendency to suddenly fail with the firmware version displaying as “ERRORMOD” (error mode) and only showing 1GB of unusable space. They can potentially be put back into a usable state, but it’s 100% data loss when you see that message. Samsung’s consumer and enterprise SSD departments were (unsure if still true) basically separate entities that didn’t talk with each other, which was further confused and compounded by the OEM customized firmware nonsense which results in a lot of great hardware essentially having buggy firmware with no fixes. I believe their very latest (non OEM) enterprise m.2 drives have streamlined the availability of updating the firmware, so the problem is seemingly less for those. For the silicon power drives, if they just suddenly stopped showing up, then you may try doing a power cycle to see if that brings them back: https://dfarq.homeip.net/fix-dead-ssd/ https://dfarq.homeip.net/fix-dead-ssd/ I’ve had Intel and consumer Samsung drives I’ve brought back with power cycling. Older NVMe Drives seem especially prone to becoming unresponsive in older NVMe enclosures. Seems like less of an issue these days though.

jjeaff 2y ago
I would never trust a drive bought on eBay or Amazon unless I could verify the specific seller. There are a lot of Samsung fakes out there.
upon_drumhead 2y ago
The silicon power drives all went read-only. Power cycling never brought them back, and they had various levels of lost. It was clear at least one chip failed and the drive was doing it's best to at least let me recover what I could off of it, but given how many went this way, I just gave up entirely on the brand. I've only bought the pro level of the Samsung consumer drives (nvme m.2) and they've been stellar. I have no experience with their enterprise drives. I also wouldn't buy drives off of eBay. I don't think of eBay as cheaper than amazon/b&h/etc, and the risk of a fake is just so much higher on eBay.