I got my new PC for about 3 or 4 months. Today, I was using my PC as usual and suddenly everything stopped reacting. Rebooting just boots be into the UEFI interface. Which is very concerning.

Then I got a liveusb to look into what’s happening. Upon using smartctl. It shows that my SSD have 0% spare capacity despite only writing 15TB to it.

So far, I knew that Samsung’s EVO 980 and 990 SSDs have a firmware bug that can cause this. But this is the 1st time I know of 970 Pros having this issue.

I know there’s a lot of servers using consumer drives for their system. Be careful and check if you are using a 970. If so, check the spare capacity RIGHT NOW and decided if to upgrade the firmware or RMA the product.

  •  sometimescarmen   ( @sometimescarmen@beehaw.org ) 
    1•1 year ago

    Had a user at work have a 970 Evo Plus die completely randomly just a few days ago. Firmware fully up to date, been in production for about 1 year, light use. Completely dead, full of bad blocks, locked itself into read-only mode because it was out of available spare.

    I think there were likely some bad batches of these guys. I’ve had a 970 Pro at home for 4-ish years with absolutely no issue, but seemingly a huge amount of people recently have had these guys die spontaneously.

    I also thought only the 980 Pro’s were confirmed to have that firmware bug? Or at least I thought those were the only model that Samsung acknowledged the bug on?

      •  Solo   ( @soloone@vlemmy.net ) 
        1•1 year ago

        Cool, and no worries. I really just wanted to test how comments work on lemmy :). Also I’ve never heard of 970 pros going bad that fast. Did you RMA it?

        Thanks for the command, will have to test a bunch of drives

        •  clehaxze   ( @clehaxze@reddthat.com ) OP
          1•1 year ago

          I haven’t. There’s a official Samsung repair center next to my workplace . I gone there expecting a faster turnaround.But was informed they only process phones and earbuds. I had to mail the SSD instead.

          Going to do that in the weekend. Also bought a new SSD from Kingston since is is also my work machine. Can’t have it down for too long.