Anyone got any horror stories about ssd drives?
I have just had 2 bite the dust within days of each other and it can't be a coincedence surely?
I understand Sup Forums isn't tech support but I would like to know if you have had an ssd just randomly stop working one day.
>fuck sandisk
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my kingdian has been fine desu
I use a mix of Pro and EVO Samsungs
No complaints here
Sorry OP
My 850 has been working fine since I bought it. It'll probably last for years. You should't've bought a chinkshit like sandisk, OP.
>ssd drives
>solid state drive drives
Solid state disk drives
How old were they?
what the fuck were you doing
SSD failure is heavily dependent on what, exactly, you were stressing your pieces of shit on
>inb4 Denuvo writes
>inb4 Chrome daily writes
>inb4 constant OS reinstallation
Sandisk is acceptable, but the SSD Plus one is shit as fuck.
But is expected from a cheap TLC SSD.
Even ADATA SP550 is way more reliable.
Sadly Sandisk is not a option anymore when better alternatives exist.
Also WD fucked up releasing SSDs, they released overpriced ones not worth their price.
>bought SSD
>installed Linux on it
>one day Linux completely froze
>had to do hard shut down
>SSD rendered completely useless
>had to send it back to SSD factory under warranty
They were 22 months and 9 months both SanDisk
>Chrome
don't be ridiculous
Installed 1 OS on the primary one and they other was for other data
> SanDisk
Here's your problem. Only get Intel or Samsung if you need reliability.
I had a very old 32/64 GB SSDs. They both died and couldn't take any data anymore (wouldnt start any OS and would freeze the OS if I loaded it as data drive)
Those are one of the first/second gen SSDs tho.
Intel ssd's have a shocking failure rate probably worse than Sanchink
I've had a Sandisk SSD just die on me too, they replaced it quickly though. One of the first OCZ Vertex 2 drives also simply fucked up at one point and lost all data on it, but after that it still seems to work. I've thrown it into an old laptop which I use as a HTPC, has actually worked fine for years now.
Intel SSDs are known to bricking themselves to read only mode.
Running Adata here, 3 years and going strong.
No idea how you can run an SSD to death so quickly.
Regardless of the manufacturer they shouldn't fail within hours of each other?
What was the time frame for the replacement?
Been using my intel SSD since 2012, never had any problems with it after 10 TB written. Good shit.
>tfw already 48tb written on my SSD after 1.5 years
>samsung ends warranty at 75tb
A little on the rare side but drives tend to go at once. I've seen this happen for a raid configuration within the same week period, because 3-4 years ago is when the drives were purchased and they were purchased at the same time.
it would be a shame if samsung does something similar to their printer cartridges
Sorry I didnt mean to imply they died within hours. rather I had two separate instances. Both of them acted similarly when they died, so I thought I'd combine it into one unified summary.
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If you got the 840 series, it will start sector errors around 100 TB and complete failure around 1PB.
>techreport.com
It's the 850 so hopefully i'm fine
>it can't be a coincedence surely?
It was god.
It is, one huge difference is the 3D NAND.
Probably 1+ PB data written.
>forums.whirlpool.net.au
This guy did a torture test on 850, easily survived 1 PB without any errors.
Who knows, constant rewrites on disk. Maybe he went crazy with defragging?
>What was the time frame for the replacement?
I really don't remember since it was a while ago, but I remember they were pretty quick and responsive, especially since the drive was bought by somebody else in the US and I sent it back from Europe. I think it was something like 1-2 weeks.
>bought ssd in 2012
>no problems so far
same, it's pretty decent. might get a evo msata soon
>He fell for the SSD meme
got my 1st ssd in 2011, a 128gb crucial, it was used in 5 different laptops and i had no other computers at the time, currently its in an old netbook and its life% is 98, so only used up 2% so far
>denuvo writes
People still believe that?
Got a new SSD
Is cloning the drive enough, or do I need to do a full fresh reinstall?
yeah the first SSD i ever bought just randomly stopped working this month. idk when i bought it, maybe 3 years ago but this shit never happened to me with HDDs
sucks ass, it was a 120gb SSD but still. What gives? that is not okay
Had a Kingston and mushkin die, first one was from 2007 and went read only, other was sandforce+TLC so it was doomed to brick after a year
sandisk ultra 2's are the best bang for your buck drive you can buy, they are up there with samsung and intel
WD owns sandisk, so there are you wd ssds
>bought SSD
>installed windows on it
>one day windows completely froze
>had to do hard shut down
>SSD rendered completely useless
>had to send it back to SSD factory under warranty
samefag
>implying.
It's like some devices are bad out of the box. It's like we have warranties for a reason. It's impossible for a HDD, or any other electronic device for that matter, to come broken or to break shortly after it was purchased. Literally only SSDs suffer from this problem. Literally.
get out.
These are my SSDs, the AMD is about 1 year old. the ADATA maybe 3-4 months. OS is on the ADATA gaymes on the AMD. How fucked am i in the future?
woops here pic
haven't checked in since 2011. samsung still the go to company? is samsung still the only company that makes its own controllers?
>Anyone got any horror stories about ssd drives?
yeah back when 30gb was a big ssd, they were bad and lost data all the time
i haven't encountered that in years with modern ssds though
3** perhaps, but surely not 5**
Bought an MX500 a year ago, Amazon sent me two.
One used in my PC, other in the laptop - laptop was sold to a work colleague.
Both still going strong, good performance no errors at all.
Just stop buying a shitty brand.
Own 2, one Samsung 850 evo, the other is a Micron server SSD I got for free. It has ran for about 12k hours if I recall correctly. No problem with either of them whatsoever.
This Archive hdds are the only way.
Oh you, you're good you.
Fuck Kingston
Winrar.
my adata sp550 480 gb has been a workhorse for a year. got it a year ago for $109 on newegg, they're more than that now due to the market bullshit.
my intel 520 120gb is still the hardest working ssd in my machine and has been through a few other computers and a laptop. was pretty expensive when i bought it.
no failures yet knock on wood. got a pny 240 in my work pc as well.
>defragging an SSD
bang for the buck =/= quality
If you get the G25 versions of the 120GB and 240GB SSD Plus, then you'll get the MLC version.
I had one eat shit a few weeks ago.
I let a coworker install an SSD intoone of our computers. Turns out the SSD we already have in there is M2, so we need to bust out a power supply cable to get that shit plugged in.
So he does, and we turn it on. Shitgoes on fire the next second.He pulls it out and burns his hand in the process.
Fortunately the computer still works--surprising how sturdy motherboards can be.
I had an inkling he pulled out the wrong power supply cable, and turns out I was right.
Tried to get the SSD going with the correct PSU cable this time, doesn'tget detected by the OS. I expected this, since obviously a short that causes a fire is serious business. There are no burn marks or obvious hints ofdamage on the SSD when I cracked it open. I assume some of the chips arefried. Oh well?
Kid's got a long way to go.
my crucial m4 lasted for 4 years of heavy use and then just kicked the bucket one day. Didn't show up in the bios.
My two cents here is that the quality of your powersupply can never be understated, especially for SSDs
i had an 840 evo with the nand defect. argued with some pajeet on their support and they sent me an 850 evo
>horror story
Do you have a backup?
1. Yes
=> Restore it.
2. No
=> Your data was not important, apparently.
I have felt this way since 2003 and anot Nforce 2 problem all of their modules seemed to have
A better outcome than it not appearing to begin with, at least you have an opportunity to copy your pirated floppies instead of having to cough up bux to DriveSavers/WeRecoverData/similar if you weren't already backing up.
Bad goy. We're all human.
I think I just had the ssd die in my laptop.
Got a bsod, when I tried to boot it would bsod again.
Do these sound like symptoms of a dead ssd/controller
>Can't even boot in safe mode
Booted the Win10 recovery environment
>Can't recover/reset
>Can't do sfc scan
>DISM scan says 0 windows installations
>Trying to rebuild MBR fails (failed RPC call)
>Diskpart shows the disk but can't format/shrink partitions
>Drive doesn't show when I try to install new Win10 from usb (also tried to load drivers for the drive - pretty sure they were the right drivers but it still wouldn't show)
At a loss for what to do. Don't care about the data since it's all backed up but the device is currently unusable. Fortunately it's still under warranty, so if it is the SSD I won't be too fucked.
Should have bought SU800 instead SP550 for the 3D NAND.
why would you ever get an ssd in the first place? They cost more but are 10x more likely to fuck up.
in the market for one of these
is there any company to AVOID?
don't go with sandisk. sandisk makes great shit aside from ssds. make sure it's an actual ssd and not an EMMC ssd, aka quite literally a big, slow sd card.
Avoid Sandisk budget tiers(SSD Plus), Avoid Kingston, PNY and other noname brands.
ADATA, Samsung (3D NAND series) and Intel are reliable.
Crucial too.
Only SSD I ever had fail on me was a PNY, but that was out of the box, never actually used it. Was funny too because the fuckin guy at the store was like "PNY IS AWESOME" And I was like "Nah" but I bought it any ways.
He was eating shit when I went back to return it.
I own:
SM951 256gb
850 Pro 512gb
850 EVO 250 x3 (2 are mSATA)
SM941 32 x 3"
Kingston SV200 120gb
Kingston SV300 120gb
OCZ Trion 100 120
OCZ Trion 150 256gb
OCZ Arc 100 120gb
Micron m550 64gb x3
None have failed, 80% of them get regular use, the 850 Pro has over 10TB written, all have between 5,000 and 15,000 hours of use
Just bought BX200, how fucked am I?
Huge.
IIRC BX200 and MX200 have lots of problems.
top kek
>IIRC
you don't
>58235462
Not going to give you a (you) with such weak bait.
You can't rebuild MBR on GPT disks because there are no MBR in the first place.
Computers have been shipping with GPT disks since Windows 8.
Still using a 120gb samsung 830 as my OS drive since it launched....
It's still running pretty well.
>Crucial
>Reliable
Lol wut? they drop health as soon as you write to them.
Is reliable but not good.
>MX200
>MLC SSD rated at 70TBW
Shit dies fast but wont die on you without warning.
Got one AMD SSD to install for a friend... man, they are just chink drives with a fucking STICKER on it! Come on, AMD...
They are rated for 72~75TB writes before warranty is void.
There are people with drives dropping 11% health with 179XXGB writes
Thoughts on ADATA SSDs?
I want to get a mSATA for my thinkpad. If they're too shitty I'll just wait to get more money.
Adata is the 3rd largest DRAM manufacturer in the world based in Taiwan, they make mostly memory related things. Not the fastest SSD on the block, but an all rounder.
Decent, SP550 has a flaw that can be overlooked (if SLC cache fills speeds drop to HDD tier speeds but you need to write to it nonstop for it to happen).
SU800 doesn't have this problem and has 3DNAND which have a 200TBW for 240GB and 400TBW for the 480GB version.
But im not sure SU800 has a mSATA version.
They're decent really. They're the Corolla of ssds. Gets the job done without any flair or excitement, but good for the money
Muh Kingston 128gb SSDNow is still alive after 1 year. Very curious to see when it dies tho.
>buying any SSD not made by Intel or Samsung (850 Series and later)
I have a Kingston HyperX ssd still going strong after like, 4 years.
Sadly though my Seagate 2tb hdd with all my Steam games died today after about the same time, so I need to replace it.
Anyone know if the newer Seagates have improved? I wanted to get an HGST drive, but the prices have shot up for them and stock is low at most places
my Maxtor is like 10 years old, shame they were bought by some shitty HDD company.
Still going strong after 3 years.
Wrong image, oops.
>SSD for storage
>ANIME storage
supah kawaii
It's a super old picture, I had saved as untitled.png initially and just typed that in from the wrong folder.
You can't defrag an SSD, retard.
You can, but you shouldn't.