This is what I’d bet my money on as it’s present in a pretty wide variety of systems usually with the only common factor being the SSD itself, from what I’ve observed and heard from industry specialists its often an issue with solder points, aka poor quality solder and soldering job, leads to a huge amount of issues and the worst part is that they haven’t improved in years.
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It always frusfrate me when a $100+ product is ruined because the final manufacturing wants to save 10 cents on the solder. 
Sadly it seems like as a consumer, there is nothing we can do other then, advise others to avoid this product 
Unless we can prove it is out of ATX spec, which is beyond me now.
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Easy buy 1000 of them and test them for ATX spec
The controller itself is rarely responsible for power regulation, you have circuits handling that part and if you have a faulty PSU that’s hardly the SSD device to blame. Since there are no hard data just assumptions its not possible to determine the cause.
Well when you have them fail in such large numbers, it’s more of a “we got here somehow” situation
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Based on what data? Mine is working fine for example and I dont know what you except from a very cheap SSD. It’s built to a cost, it does work fine if you consider it as a light usage device and not enterprise grade one (you get what you pay for).
Eh, I’m not going to repeat this discussion, we’ve already talked about the issue at hand and statistics involved.
Haha, i dun think even LTT labs will have that budget to throw around.
It would make for a boring of video, imagine the following outcome
Sandisk was within spec. But turns out everyone else was way above spec. Hence there is no problem but things being cheap. And that the new spec should be made higher
Well tbh Kingston, WD, Sandisk and Mushkin definitely need to raise the spec they are aiming for, but I agree, nobody with huge resources would do it because they use better drives and everyone else doesn’t have the money to do it.
Just another data point, I’ve got one here that is about to fail. 1TB model. Purchased in fall 2020. Just under 4TB total lifetime written. SMART shows 100% but also shows UECC count of 85,000! I suspect it’s been troublesome for a long time, maybe even since day one.
CHKDSK keeps finding and failing to correct bad sectors. Windows keeps having trouble reading random files, and it’s been getting worse.
Probably the newest drive I own, and now the second SSD I’ve had fail. (which is twice as many HDD’s as I’ve had fail in my lifetime now).
Hi Terrh,
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Anecdotally, I’ve had 2 drive failures.
1 SSD and 1 HDD.
I could salvage everything from the HDD before it completely gave up the ghost. It’s lying somewhere around me as paperweight.
The SSD - sudden and total death (it was my first SSD from way back when they first arrived - an old OCZ, that had those dumb, encrypting controllers, which meant no data recovery - as a boot drive, so thankfully I lost only like a couple of documents I really cared about and a folder of wallpapers that would have been nice to save).
Although it should be noted, not all SSD death is sudden. Last week I had a friend’s SSD start throwing up regular overheat events and blue-screening.
P.S. Oops! Thread necromancy ahoy! 
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