I bought 5 of these less than two years ago, though they were the 500 GB model. Every single one of them has failed - some within 45 days and just outside the return period. The last one, which I honestly forgot was still running and thought I’d replaced, failed this morning.
These SSDs are absolute garbage and their warranty replacements are a joke (read: you’re outta luck, Chuck). Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me 6 times, well, shame one me for buying them again, I guess. lol. I had one fail prior to this batch, but assumed it was an oddball.
Pro tip: Never buy Silicon Power (SP) SSDs. I you have any in use, make sure you have backups running daily and that you check those backups every so often.
Seems like the 3v3 regulator is what goes out on these, but I’m not going to bother trying to repair it since I’ve got backups.
Might even say they ran like A55
They’re almost not even low key admitting it…
Yep, I’ve had two die on me, both within a year of purchase, for no real reason whatsoever. I’m never buying that brand again.
Really weird warranty 45 days, are you sure these are not fake?
I have some of their ssds, and the warranty is 5 years
Oh, the warranty is 5 years. The Amazon return period was 30 days, and they failed outside of that window.
For their warranty claims, they make you jump through a lot of hoops to even get started on an RMA, plus I had to pay shipping. Ultimately, I figured they’d just send another piece of junk, so I cut my losses and bought Samsungs to replace them.
What’s the problem then? I’m living in a country where there is no return period 🫣
What is a recommended SSD nowadays? I don’t really have a criteria other than avoiding the noise - sata works well enough for me.
I’ve been buying Samsung (both SATA and NVMe), though I’m sure someone will tell me they went to crap too. At least the ones I have are on track to hit the 3 year mark.
For less critical things, I’ve used PNY pretty successfully (haven’t hit 2 years yet, but haven’t had any failures either). They’re less expensive, and I usually stick to the 120-240 GB ones (basically they’re boot drives)
Samsung did have a major problem early last year, but it seems to be limited to a run of products with a specific firmware.
I still have the very first SSD I ever bought, a 120GB Samsung 830 that is well over 10 years old. It is the OS drive in my server and thus running 24/7. No errors yet.
Lol, yep. I’ve got a 32 GB Kingston SATA SSD (first one I could afford back in 2014) still going strong 24/7. I think it’s either in my router or my HomeAssistant box.
I have Samsung and crucial ssds across 3 systems and only 1 Samsung has failed after 3 years of almost 24hour uptime across those 3 years.
Since we are talking about cheap ssds, what do you guys think of netac?
Oh, damn I have one of these in one of my systems. I’m going to have to find it now and replace it. :(
At least make sure you have good backups and definitely plan for it to fail (if you can’t replace it immediately). These seem to be “when” they fail rather than “if”. Of the 6 I had fail, only one gave any warning signs; the rest just disappeared from the bus and never came back.
This is the only brand of SSD where I’ve experienced a 100% failure rate (I rate my drives over 3-5 year spans). Lol, for comparison, I’ve got a Kingston one from 2014 and an Intel one from 2015; both are still kicking and in daily use.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
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I almost bought an SP NVMe SSD yesterday for a client who insisted on saving every penny possible but went with another cheap brand because I saw a lot of reports of failures with the NVMe ones as well. Now I’m hoping the other cheap option that was available won’t suffer the same fate.
Afaik there are actually 4 flash memory manufacturers in the World, when you by an SSD the chips were manufactured by one of these companies:
- Flash Forward (Owned by or related to: Kioxia, Sandisk, WD, Dell, Seagate, Kingston)
- Micron (Crucial)
- Samsung
- SK Hynix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solid-state_drive_manufacturers
Best I can tell, the actual flash memory chips are fine. It’s the support circuitry around them that seems to be failing.
That said, the data could probably be recovered if I was so inclined and wanted to spend time/money on it. I have backups, so I’m content never buying or looking at one of these pieces of junk ever again haha
It says “ASS” right on the drive! That’s how you know you’ll have problems.
Where did you buy them from? There’s been an uptick in counterfeit storage and flash chips getting into new products.
Both batches from Amazon (months apart). I also bought one of that brand a few years ago (2017?) that ultimately failed within 2 years as well.
I said this in another comment, but best I can tell, the actual flash chips seem to be fine and it’s the support circuitry (power regulator, SATA controller, etc) that seems to be failing.
I’d assume it’s got something to do with the system you’re using them on, some issue with power or something that better quality drives are able to handle, but not these.
These are cheap, yes, but if everyone ordering these was failing just outside the return period, they’d have far more 1 star ratings.
