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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.

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)...

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.

Bizarroland ,

Since we are talking about cheap ssds, what do you guys think of netac?

Betch ,
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I almost bought an SP NVMe SSD yesterday for a client who insisted on saving every penny possible but went with another cheap brand because I saw a lot of reports of failures with the NVMe ones as well. Now I'm hoping the other cheap option that was available won't suffer the same fate.

AtariDump ,

Buy cheap, buy twice.

Buy once, cry once.

Betch ,
@Betch@lemmy.world avatar

Oh I am very aware of that but this guy doesn't seem to be. He came to me with his daughters school laptop because he had purchased an external harddrive so she could put The Sims 4 on it. They were having issues installing the game on it.

He bought a 40$ 2TB external harddrive that was fake and kept crashing when you tried to access it. At least I managed to get him to spend a bit more on upgrading the SSD instead of having his daughter suffer through loading games from a shitty USB HDD.

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.

Decronym Bot , (edited )

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage
SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage

3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 10 acronyms.

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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

Extrasvhx9he , (edited )

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

possiblylinux127 ,
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I bought a ssd off of eBay and it failed within 90 days. It was very cheap.

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