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.
Might even say they ran like A55
It says “ASS” right on the drive! That’s how you know you’ll have problems.
Really weird warranty 45 days, are you sure these are not fake?
I have some of their ssds, and the warranty is 5 years
Oh, the warranty is 5 years. The Amazon return period was 30 days, and they failed outside of that window.
For their warranty claims, they make you jump through a lot of hoops to even get started on an RMA, plus I had to pay shipping. Ultimately, I figured they’d just send another piece of junk, so I cut my losses and bought Samsungs to replace them.
What’s the problem then? I’m living in a country where there is no return period 🫣
I have a 1tb drive from them, still going strong 6 years in.
You must be the luckiest person alive.
Can you please pick 5 numbers between 1 and 69 and then another number between 1 and 26? I’m going to buy a Powerball ticket with those numbers.
47 20
Good luck.
Watch this guy win and not even offer you a cut :P
I mean, if I DM’d you saying I won the lottery and wanted to share it with you, would you even read the whole message before reporting it as spam? 😂
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Seems like the 3v3 regulator is what goes out on these
Wow, they’ve really reached the bone on cost saving with this one to have a fucking voltage regulator be the straw that broke the camel’s back.
What is a recommended SSD nowadays? I don’t really have a criteria other than avoiding the noise - sata works well enough for me.
I’ve been buying Samsung (both SATA and NVMe), though I’m sure someone will tell me they went to crap too. At least the ones I have are on track to hit the 3 year mark.
For less critical things, I’ve used PNY pretty successfully (haven’t hit 2 years yet, but haven’t had any failures either). They’re less expensive, and I usually stick to the 120-240 GB ones (basically they’re boot drives)
I bought a 512 GB one of these 5 1/2 years ago, and it’s been reliable. The exception is when I hit ~10% free space a couple times. The drive immediately suffered from horrendous read times, and locked up my system. Worked fine when I freed up enough space. Nowadays, I only use it for extra Steam library storage, since I don’t trust it, but it hasn’t let me down since
Got a similar problem with ocz drives before they got acquired by Toshiba. Bought three, 100% failure rate just after warranty expiration
Yep, I’ve had two die on me, both within a year of purchase, for no real reason whatsoever. I’m never buying that brand again.
Where did you buy them from? There’s been an uptick in counterfeit storage and flash chips getting into new products.
Both batches from Amazon (months apart). I also bought one of that brand a few years ago (2017?) that ultimately failed within 2 years as well.
I said this in another comment, but best I can tell, the actual flash chips seem to be fine and it’s the support circuitry (power regulator, SATA controller, etc) that seems to be failing.
I’d assume it’s got something to do with the system you’re using them on, some issue with power or something that better quality drives are able to handle, but not these.
These are cheap, yes, but if everyone ordering these was failing just outside the return period, they’d have far more 1 star ratings.
