Anyone else experienced a SSD failure?

[Kaihekoa]

I just had my ~1 year old Samsung 850 Evo 1TB SATA SSD die (system hard locked while gaming and then the drive was unrecognizable in BIOS and Windows USB Media). I think I am just unlucky, but am curious if anyone else has experienced a SSD failure after such a relatively short time. I thought that SSDs were supposed to have greater longevity than hard drives. I only had games, Windows, and a handful of programs on there, and the total TBW couldn't have been more than 15TB of the 400TBW warranty allotment. The drive was also kept in a very cool case with great airflow and never saw temps greater than ~35C. It will of course be sent in for RMA replacement, but having to redownload 800 GBs of games on a 2MB/sec connection is rather annoying. On the positive side, it did create an excuse to upgrade to a NVME SSD. Hopefully the Samsung 960 Evo lasts longer :\.

[roguekiller23231]

SHould be covered under warranty if it's failed that early, usually excessive writes are what kill them (never had one fail though).

[tacoshy]

Most good SSD and all Samsung SSD's have a selfrepair routine build in. To acess it only connect it to the power but not with a SATA III cable to the motherboard. Then boot the PC. SSD will be powered up but doesnt find a connection to the motherboard, as the cable is missing, and starts self diagnostic routines and then the self repair routine. Takes about 5-6 minutes and you can power down you pc and reconnect it with a SATA III cable.

No garuntee it works but in a large % of cases it does and it's a free and easy try.

[Big Boom Boom]

Well the 850 Evo has FIVE YEARS warranty so Samsung is fairly confident in it. The 850 Pro has 10 years warranty.

960 Evo only has 3 years warranty while 960 Pro is 5 years.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

You should have a backup, never rely on just one drive, any PC you have you should have MANY drives, not just one.

And C Drive should always be setup so it can be wiped clean at any given time.

850 EVO = 5 years or 150 TBW (for 500GB / 1TB models of this series)
whichever comes first, you can monitor the TBW via Samsung Magician

If you have an M.2 Slot on Motherboard that supports NVMe yes I would consider having a Samsung 960 EVO for WinOS Drive, then use your 1TB replacement 850 EVO as a Games Drive. Then get yourself another larger HDD for Backup purposes.

[carl]

Had a brand new SanDisk Ultra II 960GB fail after 10 hours. It wasn't recognised by GParted when I investigated. SanDisk offered an RMA but I sent it back to the vendor for a replacement. I know SanDisk are not the best brand but I have a few which have been trouble free.

I also have a few Evo 850s which, touch wood, have been gold even after wiping with OS reinstall over several times.

I have a spare Intel 600p NVMe M.2 SSD which has a 72TB read/write life. Apparently Intel have firmware on it that bricks it when it reaches that limit. Anyhow I've replaced it with a Samsung 960
Pro.

[Squirrell]

SSD failure happens relatively frequently in comparison to HDDs. They definitely do not have a longer lifespan than HDDs.

[Arya]

Originally posted by Squirrell:

SSD failure happens relatively frequently in comparison to HDDs. They definitely do not have a longer lifespan than HDDs.

Based on what source?

If you're going to make such a sweeping statement, you're going to need to back it up.

[DRUNK_CANADIAN]

Originally posted by Wolfıe:

Originally posted by Squirrell:

SSD failure happens relatively frequently in comparison to HDDs. They definitely do not have a longer lifespan than HDDs.

Based on what source?

If you're going to make such a sweeping statement, you're going to need to back it up.

I always thought SSDs had a shorter lifecycle than HDDs too....I don't know if anyone has formally covered the subject matter but between the finite number of writes and what I've heard by word of mouth I thought SSDs had less longevity....

Open to hear all opinions on this however.

[Omega]

Originally posted by Squirrell:

SSD failure happens relatively frequently in comparison to HDDs. They definitely do not have a longer lifespan than HDDs.

Not when you test HDDs and SSDs.

At least 1 in 10 HDDs have bad sectors or some other malfunction out of the box. With SSDs that is closer to 1 in a 1000.

[𝔇ave]

Solid state drives certainly have a better performance lifespan.. Meaning it will perform much better over it's life than a mechanical drive.. However in terms of usable lifespan the mechanical drive will easily out live a solid state drive.. But with light use even a small ssd can potentially live for 20 years with no issues.. Where as a hdd would have worn significantly in those 20 years slowing it down and making it unreliable..

[Vince ✟ ✞ ✝]

Originally posted by tacoshy:

Most good SSD and all Samsung SSD's have a selfrepair routine build in. To acess it only connect it to the power but not with a SATA III cable to the motherboard. Then boot the PC. SSD will be powered up but doesnt find a connection to the motherboard, as the cable is missing, and starts self diagnostic routines and then the self repair routine. Takes about 5-6 minutes and you can power down you pc and reconnect it with a SATA III cable.

No garuntee it works but in a large % of cases it does and it's a free and easy try.

Nice!

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by tacoshy:

Most good SSD and all Samsung SSD's have a selfrepair routine build in. To acess it only connect it to the power but not with a SATA III cable to the motherboard. Then boot the PC. SSD will be powered up but doesnt find a connection to the motherboard, as the cable is missing, and starts self diagnostic routines and then the self repair routine. Takes about 5-6 minutes and you can power down you pc and reconnect it with a SATA III cable.

No garuntee it works but in a large % of cases it does and it's a free and easy try.

That method works with many SSDs, however, hmm yea it is not complete in that short amount of time.

https://dfarq.homeip.net/fix-dead-ssd

[vadim]

Originally posted by Kaihekoa:

These are supposed to have greater longevity than hard drives after all.

They are not.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by vadim:

Originally posted by Kaihekoa:

These are supposed to have greater longevity than hard drives after all.

They are not.

It really doesn't matter. Fact is, SSDs are way better and should just be used in every machine so it's more fluid overall. Most users will have their SSDs lasting many years, depending on how much they write in general.

Overall for long term storage, yes get a quality HDD, like WD Black, Red, Gold... or other good ones for your backups.

Don't want a bunch of HDDs in your Machine? Or your a Laptop user with limited physical space, start building your own NAS.

[vadim]

Originally posted by Bad_Motha:

Fact is, SSDs are way better and should just be used in every machine so it's more fluid overall.

This is merely an opinion. Not the fact.