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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.

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

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.

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)...

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).

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

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.

Grass ,

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

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.

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...

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

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