I jumped on the SSD-train in its earliest days, had one failure back then (PNY sucks in my experience). Happy owner of a Samsung 840 Evo (120GB) since then until yesterday. Thanks to my backup on my NAS no data was lost. I need a replacement drive but can not decide on the way to go. Just buy another SSD and hope for it to survive longer than one year or go with a WD Black like the other drives in my machine?
M.2 drives or anything that needs PCI-slots is not an option as I have no room for that. Other things about the SSD [maybe someone can figure out if it was something else than bad luck]: -Airflow from front intake fan in a Thermaltake Level10GT -two WD Blakes mounted two trays lower -recently moved my machine, grounded myself with a cable during the process -Used as boot drive for Windows7 -Software and games stored on WD Blacks
System: Case: Thermaltake Level10GT Mobo: ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0 CPU: FX-8320 @ 4GHz RAM: 4x4GB Corsair Vengence LP HDD: 2x WD Black 2TB SSD: Dead Samsung 840 Evo 120GB (replaced with WD Red) GPU: W8100 (currently removed) and R9 Fury Soundcard: Soundblaster Z WiFi-Card: TP-Link TL-WN851ND PSU: Rosewill RBR1000-M 1000W (replaced with Thermaltake Berlin)
History of drives that failed on me: Seagate, Seagate, Seagate, WD, Seagate, PNY, Samsung Oldest harddrives I own: Conner CFA340A and Seagate ST31720A [No idea why I added this. Just for fun I guess. Thanks old Laptop for still working :) ]
What is your Power supply? Did you use that same connector for every SSD that died or the other hard drives? Also do you have enough wattage to supply all of your build?
System: Case: Thermaltake Level10GT Mobo: ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0 CPU: FX-8320 @ 4GHz RAM: 4x4GB Corsair Vengence LP HDD: 2x WD Black 2TB SSD: Dead Samsung 840 Evo 120GB GPU: W8100 and R9 Fury Soundcard: Soundblaster Z WiFi-Card: TP-Link TL-WN851ND PSU: Rosewill RBR1000-M (1000W)
According to the BeQuiet PSU-calc it should be fine. The SSD was on the same cable but different connector as the PNY. [The PNY-drive turned into a read only, no idea what happend to it.]
Keep in mind that SSD's pretty much always need to be powered on, (dont go more than a couple days with your system being powered off). That is the kink in SSD's; were you fond of keeping your system off? Have you gone on an extended vacation? AFAIK, being in 'sleep' does not affect SSd's in this way.
Yeah please, im really interested to see it. Its not to have a go.. but if that was the case, flash memory would be useless, its literally used in everything that doesnt have constant power. cameras, usb sticks, ssds (they get stored before being sold remember), etc. So it sounds very unlikely to be completely true.
I know that articel, it was one of the reasons I went with another SSD instead of taking a step back again to HDDs. This video speaks for itself in the context of confusion and reactions on the internet: TomScott Speed of Outrage
I have to older Thermaltake Berlins arround. Does anyone think it will be possible to frankenstein something better out of them? Edit: I will not buy anything PSU-related named after exploding stars. An RBHS (check your Keyboard if you don´t get it) of a friend did what it said on the tin. Edit2: I found a box with an unused WD Red, new bootdrive confirmed. I really need to clean up this place (silently banging my head against the desk).
From my really bad experience with the support of any other company than Blizzard, Supermicro and even ASRock... [Don´t turn this into a rant about bad support!] Let me put it this way: I am willing to spend money on a product that works but not on exchanging hundreds of emails describing my problem over and over to people who tell me between the lines that they do not give a **** about me as a customer.
Back to topic I see this turning in a unexpected direction. I do not know if anyone is willing to give two cents to anything mentioned above. (SSDs VS HDDs, Buying new stuff VS Frankensteining old stuff, Semi-Rants on bad support answers)
If its within a year just RMA it. Otherwise then, just buy a new SSD. Theres nothing inherently wrong with them, just depends on how much you want to spend. My 840 has been going a year fine, my 850 has also being going fine a couple of months.
I might turn this failure into a long-time experiment, when the WD red does not survive 11,454 hours uptime (lifetime of that Samsung), I will get a new PSU and change every drive in my machine to SSD.
I would more than likely blame the A/C ripple being allowed to filter down into your PC components from that extremely cheaply built PSU. I wouldn't buy anything less than a 80PLUS Silver rated PSU. The build quality of most 80PLUS bronze and non-rated PSUs is barely good enough and have very poor ripple filtering/v-droop problems.