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TonyTonyLowLow Mar 12, 2021 @ 12:18pm
Steam is KILLING my SSDs (jk not solved)
So I got a new Crucial 2 TB SSD. I plugged it in. I initiated it and formatted it to GPT , was able to install a Steam Library on it, start a few game downloads, and halfway through it completely disconnected, and ceased to work from that point forward. It no longer appears in Bios, or Disk Management. I can feel it getting warm. I swapped it with the same cables from my Old SSD that currently has Win 10 on it and it still wouldn't appear, but my old SSD would. So cables or power or Sata slots arent an issue.

Asus sabertooth 990fx r.1 motherboard, all firmware and drivers updated

I ended up RMAing the Drive, because nothing else was working ... Got the new Drive, it showed up in system, initiated/formatted, assigned a new drive letter, installed Steam Library, started downloading a game ... got to about 20% when it did THE SAME THING! SSD Just disappears and never shows up anywhere from that point forward! Gone from BIOS, Device Manager, Disk Management... I thought it was a cable issue, bad unit, both replaced, but it seems to ONLY happen when downloading a Steam game ... please help, driving me nuts.

EDIT: went and got a Samsung 2 TB, worked no issues. Guess I got 2 bad SSDs back to back ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
EDIT 2: What the ef. The Samsung SSD downloaded the entire game, and THEN disappeared.
EDIT 3: I will literally send $50 to whoever figures it out
Last edited by TonyTonyLowLow; Mar 13, 2021 @ 8:55pm
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Omega Mar 12, 2021 @ 12:21pm 
SSD is just deffective, has nothing to do with Steam.

RMA it, this is what warranty is for.
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TonyTonyLowLow Mar 12, 2021 @ 12:22pm 
C'mon man, read. I already RMA'd it. It did it again in the exact same spot.
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Castyles Mar 12, 2021 @ 12:22pm 
The SSD is faulty.
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Cathulhu Mar 12, 2021 @ 12:22pm 
I have two computers running SSDs, with Steam on them. Not once did a download cause the SSD to die.

You must have had very bad luck with those SSDs.
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emoticorpse Mar 12, 2021 @ 12:26pm 
Originally posted by TonyTonyLowLow:
C'mon man, read. I already RMA'd it. It did it again in the exact same spot.

You run Malwarebytes on your pc?
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TonyTonyLowLow Mar 12, 2021 @ 12:26pm 
I refused to believe that it's the SSD. Both were working completely fine until about 20-30% of a game being downloaded, NOTHING else going on, then POOF
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Omega Mar 12, 2021 @ 12:26pm 
Originally posted by emoticorpse:
Originally posted by TonyTonyLowLow:
C'mon man, read. I already RMA'd it. It did it again in the exact same spot.

You run Malwarebytes on your pc?
This is completely irrelevant.
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Omega Mar 12, 2021 @ 12:27pm 
Originally posted by TonyTonyLowLow:
I refused to believe that it's the SSD. Both were working completely fine until about 20-30% of a game being downloaded, NOTHING else going on, then POOF
Production errors happen. You either just got unlucky or an entire batch of SSDs is bad.
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Supafly Mar 12, 2021 @ 12:29pm 
Originally posted by TonyTonyLowLow:
C'mon man, read. I already RMA'd it. It did it again in the exact same spot.

I've had Steam installed on multiple 2.5" SSD's and NVME drives over the years and never had this. Thousands, if not millions of Steam users have it installed on SSDs without an issue. If this was an issue it'd be all over the forums along with various other online places.

This is clearly an issue with the drive/s you keep getting or something else. Personally I'd RMA it and get another brand just incase.
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TonyTonyLowLow Mar 12, 2021 @ 12:33pm 
Originally posted by Monkey:
Originally posted by TonyTonyLowLow:
C'mon man, read. I already RMA'd it. It did it again in the exact same spot.

I've had Steam installed on multiple 2.5" SSD's and NVME drives over the years and never had this. Thousands, if not millions of Steam users have it installed on SSDs without an issue. If this was an issue it'd be all over the forums along with various other online places.

This is clearly an issue with the drive/s you keep getting or something else. Personally I'd RMA it and get another brand just incase.


My other SSD is 500 GB, my main one with Win 10 on it. No issues installing anything on that one. Can someone at least confirm that I did everything else right? I even checked my windows settings to make sure it wasnt turn off harddrives after so much time had gone by. There's literally no reason for this happening
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Cathulhu Mar 12, 2021 @ 12:37pm 
Originally posted by Omega:
Production errors happen. You either just got unlucky or an entire batch of SSDs is bad.
Simply this.
Wouldn't be the first time. Anyone remember the IBM Deskstar debacle?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar#IBM_Deskstar_75GXP_failures
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nullable Mar 12, 2021 @ 12:42pm 
I do, I owned one of those drives. Ask me if it failed.

Heck yeah it did. And I was still a newb, and it took like a year to fail completely (a few weeks before the warranty expired), so somehow I was also lucky too.

Also I've been running Steam on multiple SSDs since 2012. It's not Steam. Steam isn't doing anything special. There's hundreds of millions of hours of SSDs being used on Steam at this point that don't agree with your original conclusion OP.
Last edited by nullable; Mar 12, 2021 @ 12:45pm
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Supafly Mar 12, 2021 @ 12:43pm 
Originally posted by TonyTonyLowLow:
Originally posted by Monkey:

I've had Steam installed on multiple 2.5" SSD's and NVME drives over the years and never had this. Thousands, if not millions of Steam users have it installed on SSDs without an issue. If this was an issue it'd be all over the forums along with various other online places.

This is clearly an issue with the drive/s you keep getting or something else. Personally I'd RMA it and get another brand just incase.


My other SSD is 500 GB, my main one with Win 10 on it. No issues installing anything on that one. Can someone at least confirm that I did everything else right? I even checked my windows settings to make sure it wasnt turn off harddrives after so much time had gone by. There's literally no reason for this happening
From what you've said I can't see an issue on your part. The drive was working fine so it was connected and setup correctly. It stopping around same time as the previous drive looks like they are part of a bad batch. If that's the case try another brand so you won't get caught with another faulty drive.
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tacoshy Mar 12, 2021 @ 1:46pm 
Originally posted by Cathulhu:
Originally posted by Omega:
Production errors happen. You either just got unlucky or an entire batch of SSDs is bad.
Simply this.
Wouldn't be the first time. Anyone remember the IBM Deskstar debacle?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar#IBM_Deskstar_75GXP_failures

nah you remeber the first 4 batches of Seagate Barracuda in 2014? 43.1% failure rate fore the 3TB and also more then 10% for the 1.5TB version.
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TonyTonyLowLow Mar 12, 2021 @ 1:52pm 
Originally posted by tacoshy:
Originally posted by Cathulhu:
Simply this.
Wouldn't be the first time. Anyone remember the IBM Deskstar debacle?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar#IBM_Deskstar_75GXP_failures

nah you remeber the first 4 batches of Seagate Barracuda in 2014? 43.1% failure rate fore the 3TB and also more then 10% for the 1.5TB version.

I'm new to these events. Do manufacturers just RMA replacement with the same batch tho ...?
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