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Are Samsung Evo 870 ok now?

Bemused

Bemused

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I would like to upgrade a Crucial MX500 1TB SATA SSD as it is at 78% capacity. And as it's BF one of the box-shifter stores here in the UK (Currys) has a offer on a Samsung EVO 870 2TB SSD (£109). However I'm concerned that issues of failure of the 870s (in particular the 4TB) may still be about. And reading on the web just throws up complaints and contrary comment.
Is it safe now do you think to go for the 2TB 870. ??
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Bemused said:
I would like to upgrade a Crucial MX500 1TB SATA SSD as it is at 78% capacity. And as it's BF one of the box-shifter stores here in the UK (Currys) has a offer on a Samsung EVO 870 2TB SSD (£109). However I'm concerned that issues of failure of the 870s (in particular the 4TB) may still be about. And reading on the web just throws up complaints and contrary comment.
Is it safe now do you think to go for the 2TB 870. ??
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With latest firmware they are supposedly okay now. You can update the firmware with Samsung's included software if necessary. I have 6-2TB 870's that have worked flawlessly. Still hesitant to risk the 4TBS and much prefer NVMe drives.
Bemused said:
I would like to upgrade a Crucial MX500 1TB SATA SSD as it is at 78% capacity. And as it's BF one of the box-shifter stores here in the UK (Currys) has a offer on a Samsung EVO 870 2TB SSD (£109). However I'm concerned that issues of failure of the 870s (in particular the 4TB) may still be about. And reading on the web just throws up complaints and contrary comment.
Is it safe now do you think to go for the 2TB 870. ??
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When in doubt, there are so many other brands that work...
Bemused said:
I would like to upgrade a Crucial MX500 1TB SATA SSD as it is at 78% capacity. And as it's BF one of the box-shifter stores here in the UK (Currys) has a offer on a Samsung EVO 870 2TB SSD (£109). However I'm concerned that issues of failure of the 870s (in particular the 4TB) may still be about. And reading on the web just throws up complaints and contrary comment.
Is it safe now do you think to go for the 2TB 870. ??
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I had two of those broken drives back to back since the replacement drive was bad too... I have trust issues with Samsung EVOs now. Only bought Crucials since then but might still consider Samsungs from the PRO series.
Thanks All. I have 3 SSDs in my system : C/OS - Samsung Evo 860 500gb . D/Sample content (Kontakt) - Crucial MX500 1tb / E Non Kontakt Full Instruments - Crucial MX500 1tb. Original desktop built by SCAN in the UK.
All installed 2-2.5 years ago and working without issue. Must say that I'm still reading of issues today with the Samsung. And it seems odd that to date they have made no comment at all on the issues. That just raises trust issues for me.I think I will wait till the new year and look to swap out a Crucial for an larger Crucial. Many thanks for the feedback.
I have two of the 4TB Evo 870's. One going for 2 years now, and the other one for about one and a half years. No problems so far - but I'm not sure how long they are supposed to take to fail?
mducharme said:
I have two of the 4TB Evo 870's. One going for 2 years now, and the other one for about one and a half years. No problems so far - but I'm not sure how long they are supposed to take to fail?
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5-7yrs vs 3-5 for traditional hard drives depending upon quality & usage. An SSD used primarily to access a sample lib will outlast one that is repeatedly written/erased since those blocks are not reusable unlike a standard HDD.
Alchemedia said:
5-7yrs vs 3-5 for traditional hard drives depending upon quality & usage. An SSD used primarily to access a sample lib will outlast one that is repeatedly written/erased since those blocks are not reusable unlike a standard HDD.
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I don't mean SSD's in general - I mean if one of my 870's is one of the bad ones - how long would it take to fail?
Alchemedia said:
5-7yrs vs 3-5 for traditional hard drives depending upon quality & usage. An SSD used primarily to access a sample lib will outlast one that is repeatedly written/erased since those blocks are not reusable unlike a standard HDD.
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Not for this failure mode. It is not age or written-to related. It is random.
uOpt said:
For the 870 EVO specifically that is a lie. See the TPU thread.
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I'm looking at the TechPowerUp thread, but it looks like people are saying that it is fixed. I've gone back months in the thread. Obviously it doesn't help with a drive that was already problematic from the old firmware - upgrading the firmware after it has started failing won't fix that.
mducharme said:
I'm looking at the TechPowerUp thread, but it looks like people are saying that it is fixed. I've gone back months in the thread. Obviously it doesn't help with a drive that was already problematic from the old firmware - upgrading the firmware after it has started failing won't fix that.
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No, the thing that is fixed now is newer manufacturing dates. There was no firmware update for the problem with the older drives. If you still have an old one it will die on you.
Those individual posts seem to be about an increased wear problem.

I was talking about a sudden death problem that was fixed with new drive revisions (without bumping the model number).
The whole TPU thread is about the wear problem, it often appears suddenly but sometimes appears gradually with warning.

But I finally found out - my drives have a manufacturing date of fall 2022 and later, so they are unaffected. All of my SMART stats are good. I think I'm OK.
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