Samsung 870 Evo Dies, Major Issue 2TB & 4TB To Be Aware Of, Be Careful People!!
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- Опубліковано 17 лис 2022
- Samsung 870 Evo Dies, Major Issue 2TB & 4TB To Be Aware Of, Be Careful People!!
Any one that has a Samsung Evo 2-4tb drive needs to check for corruption errors as this leads to a dead drive eventually and loss of data with big head aches!! - Ігри
I've been running several Samsung 860 and 870 EVO in different systems for years and all have been rock solid. It's possible that there was a bad batch, but overall these drives are the best you can get for the price. Look up the reviews for other brands of SSD, there are horror stories with all of them, with much higher failure rates than the Samsung products.
Same here, but Samsung is known for changing the components of the product after a year from release (good reviews), they start using cheap slow components without any announcement.
This is a scam, they should give a new batch that has a newer component a another name, something like 870 EVO V2 so people know this isn't the same product that they are seeing on the internet reviews.
Had this happen in the morning. PC didn't seem to start at all and was just stuck loading for ages in motherboard boot screen. Spent whole damn day trying figure out what had gone from PC, went first for more obvious faults like Ram, main drive (nvme ssd), possibly corrupted bios etc, but each one was fine. Then just left my pc on that loading screen for quite while (went to cook food) and when came back it was finally open and managed to figure out that my storage drive aka this piece of junk had broken also it still had near frozen my pc even in windows.
Didn't go out suddenly though, like you said I also had weird unexplainable crashes for while now and other minor stuff, but never figured out what was the cause, though part of is that I was always looking in to ram, GPU and my main SSD instead of storage one. Which I almost never used for anything except storing some random stuff.
Happy that it wasn't anything major in the end and didn't lose anything important that hadn't backed up in external HDD ages ago, but still gave me solid headache for hours.
If I bought one of these Samsung solid state drive in 2024 will I have these issues? Got a nice rig and I wanted to add some solid state drives to my pc in the built in bay. So i put 2x2TB of them in the mounting bay. Says it comes with a 5 year warranty.
I am thinking of buying this also
I'm in the same situation now but for the 8TB 870 QVO that I bought in July 2021 and the manufacturing date says 2021/05. Used it as a game drive and I believe almost 11GB of writes was done. I also came across random crashes and by end of last November, the drive is not detected anymore. I tried on other systems, tried with SATA to USB, and also checked bios. It's completely dead and the warranty is also over. The weird thing is Samsung Magician never reported errors. I decided don't want to spend on 8TB drives and just go for a 4TB Samsung 870 EVO instead until I saw this video.
Hello Dude, How is the April 2022 version treating you! Are you good on the blue blocks? Because I am about to purchase 2023 batch.
My 870 is listed on Magician, but the program can't scan it or see the temps (all N/A).
Can we get a follow-up? I'm curious if the new batches still have this problem as I need a new 2TB SSD.
still testing so far ok but don't hold your breath i ll run some test after certain amount gb usage! :)
they update it on november 2022, so there something going on. from samsung
*The 870 EVO model will be manufactured with a revised V6 process starting November 2022.
FYI...I just experienced this mess. 2TB Samsung EVO with 2021.11 date made in Korea. I will RMA the drive as I already replaced it with Crucial MX500 4TB drive as not going to deal with this nonsense on a work PC.
Should I buy an 860 or an 870? I'm looking for the one that will last longer. Or do I still run the same risks with the 860 since they are from a new batch and are not comparable to the ones that were made 3 years ago.
nope. 860 is affected too. best is not to buy any samsung ssd for now until samsung fix the issue. the latest 990 is also suffering from this issue too. my guess is this is an hardware issue, little to no caused by the firmware. possibly defect NAND batches.
I've just sent mine back to amazon, made in 2020 sold march 21
It died after a power shut down tried formatting it but I kept getting an I/O device error? and the format was recognised as raw not ntfs,
If anyone is trying to recover data from one you might be able to read it on a linux computer . . . .
One of my old laptops with ubuntu could read the drive and show all the files but wouldn't format it.
I want to buy 500gb ssd.. Still confuse samsung evo 870 or crucial mx500.. Should i use crucial? Your suggestion please..
Exactly the same issue with my Samsung EVO 870 2TB MF date 07/2021. Purchased Nov 2021, fine for 12 months, 1.1TB stored on the drive. Started to get some files unable to be read or copied last month,, random crashes in games stored on the drive.. Did not think anything of it as the drive is only around 12 months old. Yesterday, while playing a game, it exited the game to the desktop. Figured it was likely the game, just a random glitch? Proceeded to reboot Windows 10. Got the Windows logo and the usual dots spinning forever and would not boot. Looked in the BIOS, shock...the drive was no longer detected! tried a few times, stil no joy. Eventually I opened up the PC and removed the drive. Attached it to a USB 3.0 adapter and connected the drive to another PC. Same deal, lost partition, drive letter shows but unable to access the drive. Windows asks "Drive not formatted. Do you want to format now? Currently running data recovery software that can recover from lost partitions, luckily the data is almost all still there. Its been running 24 hours now, approx 500GB recovered so far. RMAing the drive. Pretty disappointed as I actually have a Samsung 850 Pro 512GB that has 65000 power on hours, 9 years old without any errors in SMART whatsoever with 39TB of data written total. This drive was nowhere close to that! Defo a problem with a number of these EVO 870s mostly from 2021. Firmware or controller issues possibly from certain batches?
My 870 Evo has gone the same way, and I was worried I might not be able to recover any data from it at all. Do you remember what data recovery software you used? Thanks!
same question here, do you remember which program was able to retrieve some data from it?
Are there any issues with the 2023 drives ? Just brought one production date of May 19 2023 worried if I should open it.
Did you find out? I just ordered one
No
Thanks for letting me that valuable thing "Don't put any important on these". I ordered 2 of these 870 evo 1TB ones on amazon for both of my laptop and my workstation 😞 Not sure which manufacturing lot ones will I get. Hey, couple of questions if you can clarify, appreciate that.
1) Any idea of 2023 batch lot failing too?
2) are other brand SSD more reliable than Samsung EVO? Which ones?
Barracuda metal ones were much much more reliable than these.
Finally, God bless me & my data.
I've been running several Samsung 860 and 870 EVO in different systems for years and all have been rock solid. It's possible that there was a bad batch, but overall these drives are the best you can get for the price. Look up the reviews for other brands of SSD, there are horror stories with all of them, with much higher failure rates than the Samsung products.
i am also interested in 2023 versions
hi there@@nenume00, I bought 2 of these 1tb drives for my laptop and desktop pc. I have been using them since 6 months. And they are working great. No issues so far, whatsoever. Its now easy to use my old laptop and desktop with speedened boot times and accss to files. Looks like samsung rectified all those issues which were there from the past. Kudos on that for samsung. Go for it and you will love it and thank me later, if you remeber me.
My 4Tb just died. Purchased may 2023
It's not just the 2-4TB drives. My 1TB is currently failing and needs an RMA. And it has a 2021.02 build date. Luckily it has a long warranty but still. I've lost some footage and that wasn't cool at all. 5.2TB written too. My 860 Pro? 33.8TB and going strong still! Wish I bought another PRO drive TBH. But they go for WAY too much money sadly.
This issue is still happening? I was thinking of getting a 250 gig one, darn.
@@chris_007 if you have a later build date it shouldn't be affected. It was just the early units as I understand it. But regardless, I will be checking mine ever few months just to keep an eye on it.
Hey, short question: Does this mean, if I don't write that often to my SSD, it lives longer? I just need a lot of space to store all my virtual instrument samples (drums, woodwinds, etc.). Once they're written to the SSD, they're read only. So does the reading process affect the durability, too?
Same here. I had a PRO version that run 10 year without problem. But the 870 EVO (500GB) got corrupted after only 6 months.
Thanks you brother information about warning about ssd errors o very concerned about real one ssd not fake
Some people are spuitd to fake ssd from wish an allexprss but some ssdvbrand are good as real by allexprss is good quality product I know that be I replacement my hard drive to ssd no problem 😊
I dont have the box anymore. Expiriencing some bad blocks with my SAMSUNG 870 EVO 4TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD. How can i tell manufacture date of the drive. I think its Oct-2021 from researching but is there a clear way to tell?
On the back of the drive is the date! :)
@@solzzy but decoding from serial number. I have found some details on this and it seems its from October 2021... i cannot get to physical pc at the moment
I was trying to get this sdd but now I am not sure if I should get the PNY cs900
PNY CS900 is an entry level ssd. samsung is high-end.
My EVO 870 2TB manufacture date 01-23, bought in 06-23, failed after 6 months. Not written a lot, mainly reading.
Omg... I'm buy one in 03-24 u.u
@@bkjgvjggh7654 Don't worry too much. A certain percentage of electronic boards just fails. A small percentage. I watched many repair videos now. Many times it's one single capacitor that makes a short. I think I have identified in my case that the 5V rail is shorted. I had not enough time to do more up to now but in the next month I will hopefully have time to find out exactly where the short is.
Most important: Always have a backup of the important data on your SSD. Because I had a full backup of about one month back it was not that bad. But still, the bureau-crazy with Samsung made me nuts. I didn't get the warranty that I should have got. This makes me very mad about Samsung. Other Samsung devices work great. Ok, with the Galaxy S3 was also a desaster. Samsung had to quickly produce the S3 Neo and sell it for a cheap price to not get a huge customer complaint wave. But the Galaxy S8 still works, since maybe 6? years. Good timespan for a mobile compared to others. The Samsung TV also works flawlessly.
Hm, i was not aware of this issue. I'm currently using a 1tb nvme drive as my boot drive (almost maxed it out) and a 4tb external hard drive as backup/steam library (at least for games that can run on a mech drive), but i'm now looking at a 4tb ssd, unfortunately, amazon don't really tell you _when_ a drive was made, so i'll just have to hope any i get were made in 2022 at least.
The drive should say on the back when it was manufactured (month and year).
From your title, does that mean the 500GB version should be fine? Because that's the one I'm thinking of getting to upgrade my PC OS from HDD to SSD
Checking my almost 2YO sata 870 EVO 500GB. Diagnostic scan in magician says all is good, however smart data says uncorrectable error count and ecc error rate both critical. Don't know what to do. I would like to RMA it, but when it works, I am screwed. CrystalDiskInfo I have been using for all this time didn't report any problems except 99% health after cca 2 months. And I have just bought new 980Pro 1TB just to find out about these issues with samsung drives... That 870 evo was not abused (631GB written!), it was just secondary disk with some games.
@@spaceshipearth356 it's dead sorry, anyway what firmware version, manufacturing date and size of the ssd ?
@@Devastationable It is 500GB version, manufactured on 31.5.2021 and I updated to latest firmware SVT02B6Q in January. I never used samsung magician before and never updated firmware up until now.
I am testing it and watching changes in s.m.a.r.t, but nothing has changed for know. Maybe it is the new FW. I still have time until 07/2023 to RMA it. But as it is "working" right now, I am afraid it will just be useless attempt. I only put around 1,5TB data written, so maybe I should be more aggressive with it and put some more TB on it just to see what it does. I haven't been using that secondary disk much. Otherwise I could have detected problems sooner.
Omg I just ordered evo 870 500gb😭
@@mengmeng243 After the FW update there are no bad changes in smart data and I tested it intensely. Looks good, so fingers crossed.
I have an 870 EVO (release date - March 2023). This disk uses the latest firmware version SVT02B6Q. The disk worked for 2 hours during the reassembly of the RAID array - and used up 48% of its vitality. At the same time, he recorded only 1.9tb. Complete shit. And yes, I bought 4 disks and everything is in critical condition.
wow that is real bad you l need to contact Samsung trey get a refund looks like they haven't fixed the issue! last time I buy Samsung for storage! I l have to check mine and do another video soon!
That sucks I was hoping the new ones wouldnt have issues. Glad I cancelled a recent order for a new one. My 860 drives still run great but wanted to get a 4TB version of 870 EVO.
We We already have 6 defective 870 EVO SATA drives, manufactured in 2021, various capacities, which we have sold in the past and more are coming...
I just ordered a 500GB one from Amazon, with it being 500GB and being new I should be okay?
nope. all variants affected according to the source on chiphell
@@cerberusx_It depends on date of manufacturing. If it's pre-November 2022, then yea, it's doomed. If not, it should be ok
I have issues with the 500GB version of the Samsung EVO 870 and the weird thing is that Samsung Magician doesn't report any errors, but the SSD is corrupted. I strongly recommend everyone to avoid this model like plague. It's cheap for a reason. On the other hand, I have never had any problem with the PRO series (I have a 840 PRO 256GB that lasted 10 years and I just replaced it because I was running out of space but it was still working perfectly). These EVO Samsung SSDs are not reliable.
I’m so disappointed. I purchased a 2tb one today, only to go into research mode and find out they’re prone to fail, no wonder it was priced similarly to the dramless BX500. I couldn’t cancel the order in time so I have to wait for it to arrive, I’ll try to send it back.
Thanks a lot I was in doubt about getting this or a mx500 from Crucial, same price and I'll go for the 2nd.
I don't have any issues with my 256 GB model
Damn I'm using a 4tb 860 and 878 4tb for my photo archives:-( I'll have to get a seagate or wd 4tb sata drive for backup.
My 1TB with Feb 21 just died….
Literally had the same Problem like a Week ago, even bought new NVME SSD cuz I did not think it was this SATA but my PC just completely stopped working and I guess my Data is now also dead. :(
or do we know any way to get the Data recovered after it already died? curious
@@lunlyx A professional data recovery team. It’s even harder to recover data from an ssd controller/flash memory than a hard drive but it’s not impossible.
Google search. You might even be able to do it yourself.
@@lunlyx If the drive isn't completely dead it might be readable on a linux pc, My old laptop with ubuntu could read all the files, Couldn't format it to ntfs again though.
Sent back to amazon for refund.
@@JungleJeffarnold sadly didnt buy it on amazon but send it back to Samsung via Serial Number so Im getting a new one
@@lunlyx It's good they're giving you a new drive, I was browsing seeing which ssd I should buy and saw this,
I only had games and memes stored on mine but it's still a pain downloading everything again,
Amazon were pretty quick they agreed a refund and paid it a few hours after I took it to the post office.
I have this exact drive as my C drive, and it has started to fail already, tried copying a bunch of stuff into an external drive and my computer blue screened
Managed to get most of my data onto another drive, so it's not too bad now, but Samsung is absolutely useless, won't RMA it because it's outside the 2y warranty even though it's obviously defective
It makes me livid to hear this!
I’m sorry fwiw.
@@ryanjofre I have a lot of hatred for Samsung, which started with a S10 5G that died about a week after I bought it, and their backup service, (which was turned on) didn't save my wedding pictures, and Samsung insisted that the only way to repair the phone was to erase all the data on it (note that this phone did NOT have a memory card slot)
They wouldn't even let me send it to a data recovery service before sending it in for RMA, data recovery = no warranty, no warranty = no phone for at least the 2 months it would've taken me to save up for another one
Basically their stupid factory reset policy cost me every picture and video taken on my wedding day
And it is for this reason that I will NEVER buy a phone without a memory card slot (or any Samsung product for that matter)
@@mwbgaming28Oh man that sucks. Check your Google Account that was associated with the S10. If you had the Google Photos app installed or bundled by default, it may have automatically made a back-up copy of your wedding photos in the cloud.
@@oshl4387 already checked google cloud, nothing, apparently their backup service doesn't work on mobile data (even though everything was set up to back up my camera memory using mobile data since I didn't have Wi-Fi at the time)
Samsung cloud is "supposed" to work using mobile data, but it didn't (even though I had the setting enabled since I have unlimited data)
Just another reason why my seething hatred for Samsung burns with the planck temperature fury of the big bang itself
Not only do they remove the memory card slot, but their "alternative" doesn't even work
As I said, I just won't buy a phone that doesn't have a memory card slot, and I certainly won't be buying another Samsung phone, I'm happy with my Oukitel WP19, it's better than anything Samsung can offer in almost every category
bought 2 pcs 2TB from Lazada and just by copying a 400GB of data i notice it slowing down until it dies (disconnected). when formating it will take years maybe to finish it.
Ouch how was it now?
I've just bought a 2TB, build date 20 Feb 2023 - are these suspect as well?
if you can get a refund and get another brand it would better than go though this headache! as once all the data gets messed up then its to late! :(
Even if 2023 manufactured 870s should be alright? The bad batch are pre-November 2022 870 EVOs@@solzzy
seems from some pro IT forums where most people are aware of samsung ssd`s as majority, they just installed firmware right from the start and have no issues none or anywhere on google cannt find anyone having problems no more since the newer firmware, however we cannt be sure yet due to date beeing 2022 november up to present just half a year like , and if many people didnt use alot tera writes to kill it , but all seem fine so far since so i presume it was the firmware killing it, wich can happen in alot diferent hardware nowdays, that a firmware damages diferent harrdwares, i ordered two 870 evo and il isntall firmware and i feel certein will be fine , if all of u did the same too as soon as the firmware that fixed the issue was out, i reckon ud all had ur ssd`s undamaged any farther after the update, sry for my crap english
People with manufacture in mid-2023 and newest firmware still have dead 870 Evo drives.
500GB 870 evo 2022 04 manufacturing date no issues yet.
1TB 870 evo 2021 05 manufacturing date no issues yet (i upgrade firmware a week ago)
I hope everything fine like my old 860 850 and 840.
Будут.
Do they still work fine?
I've got 970 evo plus that is causing crashes. Mine is used just got storage of games.
870 EVO SATA 2.5" SSD 500GB (S5Y1NJ1R113443M MZ-77E500) 2021.01
died after ~1 year soft usage. (steam games)
need to upgrade firmware when you buy these drives. Most people simply install and never do anything, failure occurs. Also, most people running these drives on windows 11, not a good idea, best to run linux distro for longevity of m.2 and 2.5 drives .
Is the new one has the same problem?
still testing after certain amount of gb usage it is supposed to rear its head! :)
same my 870 evo HD, broken after 2 years and 2 months.....NEVER MORE samsung
so what should i do? i had a kingston a400 and it came with erros, now, people told me that the best option would be a samsung ssd, and now i see this video saying they have errors and dies .-. should i buy a crucial mx500 then? .-.
i had the same problem w my a400 and rn just binge watching about ssd's and thought this was the best option then this video came up so idk too man
@@antoniotresso8231 yeah, the probien with my a400 was, the write speed was so fk slow, not even 30mbs second, and i really wanted to buy this drive, but look a the problems People is saying, so bough a crucial mx500, it is the Best drive after the Samsung evo, and right now is 38% of disccount in Amazon, if you are interested you should try that :/, and in the comments they say that crucial doesnt have this error
Buy server ssd instead
are these safe to buy now?
not safe. samsung haven't fix the issue. the latest 990 is also suffering from this issue.
@@cerberusx_Like I said before, it depends on the manufacture date
870 EVO 4T Sata 2.5 died a few weeks ago. Same issues, wont be recognized by Samsung Magician. Computer takes 10 minutes to boot trying to fix it everytime. Guess i should just take it out of the system.
Yes take it out of your pc, and it should boot like normal, the corrupted drive is make it takes ages to boot up, same as mine did! and move any important stuff if you can, try contacting Samsung to get a replacement, they are aware of this issue.
@@solzzy Cant recover anything. No Problem though it was only my game drive. All 1 Star amazon reviews were from people whos drives didnt make it past the second year. Did contact Samsungs warranty service via mail.
Just get wd 3D nand (previous gen) or the sandisk ultra3d 4tb wise. Mx500 is pretty bad nowadays and 4tb has a high chance of being QLC based unfortunately.
I bought twelve Samsung 860 EVO 500 GB and 1 TB in 2020. All of them work perfect three years later, not one single issue with them. The best SSD's you can get.
Got 2 860's no probs, 870 = probs, samsung making not what they used to be in many area's!
I just bought samsung evo 860 last JAN 17, 2023 now it died, cant even detect at my pc tried my old hdd and it work perfectly in my current pc guess this SSD died
My 4TB just failed
Not good try getiing a replacement or refund!
Already sent in to Samsung! Mine was built 5/2021 and I bought it 6/2021 so still under warranty
For anyone else dealing with this problem in 2023 / 24, first try to change your cables, starting with your SATA Cable. I had this issue and turns out I was using a sata cable from an old build that was NOT a SATA3 6Gb/s cable. When I did my new build that is the ONLY cable that I brought over from the old PC as my new Motherboard and Power Supply came with SATA cables that were designed specifically for SATA3 6Gb/s. Also update your drive firmware via Sata Magician and reboot. If these two changes don't fix your problem, buy a better rated drive and get Geek Squad or a local company that is certified to do data recovery to go ahead and duplicate the data while the SSD is somewhat operable. Good Luck!
Think about all the people that laugh at people whom buy Western Digital blue.😂
😶😐😐😶🤣😂😂🤣
@@solzzy Lots of reports too from Samsungs TOTL 2.5” ssd the 870 Evo!! I was gonna buy one or both of these drives like two weeks ago. I think I dodged a bullet.
Maybe Samsung got in over their heads in continued pursuit of the fastest 2.5” SSD & fastest m.2 nvme ssd??
If this is a problem that manifested itself later in the 870 Evo the early adopters of that drive could be fuked as Samsung only has a 2 year warranty on flash memory drives.
We new Samsung washer & dryer. We even have a Brand new Samsung dishwasher we haven’t even run….yet.
Samsung better take care of people.
My Western Digital Blue broke in the middle of file migration and have replace it with Samsung Evo😆 Brand New Western Blue😆 My 3 years old western hardisk blue still works better than both🤮
@@ryanjofre early adopters pitfall’s this is why people should wait a while to buy anything new not just ssd’s in al things lesson learned!! :)
@@solzzy 100% I don’t buy anything until it’s been out for two+ years.
With all due respect…”early adoption” doesn’t apply here. m.2 nvme drives have been available for years! Their has also been allot of reports of serious problems with Samsungs TOTL 870 Evo 2.5” ssd. Samsung knows they’re the king of High speed SSD tech but something is rotten in Denmark and they haven’t taken any responsibility yet! These are very expensive drives we’re talking about.
The reason I mentioned WD Blue is because lots of tech snobs on UA-cam and online turn their nose down @ WD blue because it’s a popular drive that’s fast but not the fastest. WD Blue has proven to be very good drives that have never had any serious problems. Also, WD has a MUCH better warranty than Samsung.
sorry but about your data your fault entirely and deserved it... whether the disk has issue or not it WILL fail it is bound to whether in 2 years or 20 but it will so backup backup backup