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Never Again

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.

Mechanite ,

I've had one of these running for years, honestly I didn't expect it to last this long as it looks really cheap

Presi300 ,
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Fck these things, they are slow and I've also had 1 fail, causing me to reinstall my whole home lab...

RubberElectrons ,
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Oh shit, same! I had to upgrade some oscilloscopes, and thought I'd get these. Dead, instead of a year, all 5x.

Grass ,

Hmm. I have a few of these. I'll have to check if anything important and not backed up is on them.

avidamoeba ,
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Seems like the 3v3 regulator is what goes out on these

Wow, they've really reached the bone on cost saving with this one to have a fucking voltage regulator be the straw that broke the camel's back.

ptz OP ,
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I don't know if that's the failure case for them all, but I did read that on a forum and successfully recovered data from one of them by soldering on a temporary 3v3 regulator from my parts box.

Celestus ,

I bought a 512 GB one of these 5 1/2 years ago, and it’s been reliable. The exception is when I hit ~10% free space a couple times. The drive immediately suffered from horrendous read times, and locked up my system. Worked fine when I freed up enough space. Nowadays, I only use it for extra Steam library storage, since I don’t trust it, but it hasn’t let me down since

eclipse ,

I've been using that bad boy for about 3 years continuously in my server and 1 year in my desktop. Surprised it hasn't died on me yet, lol.

ptz OP ,
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Go buy a lottery ticket and use the winnings to replace it, lol. Because you are lucky (based on my experience with that brand).

Crozekiel ,

What's wild is I have had a 1TB one of these running for like 4 or 5 years now without issues, and I've had 2 nice Samsung's (a 970 and 980) die in that time frame. I've basically come to the conclusion that modern consumer storage can't be trusted or relied on in general. Robust back-up solutions of anything I'm worried about losing, preferably to a cloud service (or 2)...

WaterWaiver , (edited )

https://halestrom.net/darksleep/blog/054_nvme/

Summary: two Silicon Power P34A80's died within a few months of use, the second one was the warranty replacement of the first. In both cases sectors suddenly became permanently unreadable.

altima_neo ,
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It says "ASS" right on the drive! That's how you know you'll have problems.

Moonrise2473 ,

Got a similar problem with ocz drives before they got acquired by Toshiba. Bought three, 100% failure rate just after warranty expiration

ryannathans ,

I have a 64gb one still going, one of the originals haha

SaltySalamander ,
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Same here! Boot drive in a seedbox, been running continuously in one PC or another for about 12 years now.

altima_neo ,
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Damn, all of my ocz ssds are still working. I know they're garbage, so I'm not doubting you. I'm just amazed mine have made it this long. They're still in my PC.

I have one of the originals, but I retired that one due to how slow it's write speeds were.

But my two Vertex and one Agility are still kicking.

baduhai ,
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I have a 1tb drive from them, still going strong 6 years in.

ptz OP ,
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You must be the luckiest person alive.

Can you please pick 5 numbers between 1 and 69 and then another number between 1 and 26? I'm going to buy a Powerball ticket with those numbers.

baduhai ,
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47 20

Good luck.

wreckedcarzz ,
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Watch this guy win and not even offer you a cut :P

ptz OP ,
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I mean, if I DM'd you saying I won the lottery and wanted to share it with you, would you even read the whole message before reporting it as spam? 😂

quicksand ,

Given the context of a previous conversation, I would. This is a very elaborate long con OP

ptz OP ,
@ptz@dubvee.org avatar

Go big or go home 🤷‍♂️

ssdfsdf3488sd ,

More like he buys powerball ticket in his country and numbers win equivalent prize in lucky guys country

Extrasvhx9he , (edited )

I rather buy used ssds off eBay from a known brand.

henfredemars ,

Where did you buy them from? There's been an uptick in counterfeit storage and flash chips getting into new products.

ptz OP ,
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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.

scarilog ,

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.

lemming741 ,

I've had good luck with the two inland nvmes I got from microcenter if you're trying to save a buck. Samsung 970s have been good too, I've got 8 of them running at work.

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