FYI - my Samsung 970EVO Pro died after 4 months of use. Spare capacity at 0 - eviltoast

I got my new PC for about 3 or 4 months. Today, I was using my PC as usual and suddenly everything stopped reacting. Rebooting just boots be into the UEFI interface. Which is very concerning.

Then I got a liveusb to look into what’s happening. Upon using smartctl. It shows that my SSD have 0% spare capacity despite only writing 15TB to it.

So far, I knew that Samsung’s EVO 980 and 990 SSDs have a firmware bug that can cause this. But this is the 1st time I know of 970 Pros having this issue.

I know there’s a lot of servers using consumer drives for their system. Be careful and check if you are using a 970. If so, check the spare capacity RIGHT NOW and decided if to upgrade the firmware or RMA the product.

    • Solo@vlemmy.net
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      1 year ago

      Cool, and no worries. I really just wanted to test how comments work on lemmy :). Also I’ve never heard of 970 pros going bad that fast. Did you RMA it?

      Thanks for the command, will have to test a bunch of drives

      • clehaxze@reddthat.comOP
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        1 year ago

        I haven’t. There’s a official Samsung repair center next to my workplace . I gone there expecting a faster turnaround.But was informed they only process phones and earbuds. I had to mail the SSD instead.

        Going to do that in the weekend. Also bought a new SSD from Kingston since is is also my work machine. Can’t have it down for too long.