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FYI - my Samsung 970EVO Pro died after 4 months of use. Spare capacity at 0 (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by clehaxze@reddthat.com to c/sysadmin@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] zahel 1 points 1 year ago

Definitely odd. I’ve had a couple 970s in my rig for years now

[–] sometimescarmen 1 points 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?

[–] soloone@vlemmy.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, you write both Pro and Evo Pro. To my knowledge there is no such thing as an Evo pro. You mean 970 pro, right?

BTW, what smart command did you run?

[–] clehaxze@reddthat.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, 970 Pro my bad.

I ran smartctl -a /dev/<nvme_device>

[–] soloone@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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@reddthat.com 1 points 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.