We have Lenovo laptops at work with M.2’s that are OEM-branded Samsungs.
One bricked itself in to read only mode after a few months.
The other has been losing 1% health each week or so. I caught it losing 2% in just two days recently.
These drives are older than the 990 model mentioned in the article but I have my suspicions anyway they’re dud drives.
Nothing lost except time - they can be swapped under warranty. But I used to buy Intel exclusively before swapping to Samsung when Intel started selling rebranded drives.
I guess the search for a reliable vendor starts again…
These anecdotes are pretty frustrating without the other key piece of information. For the given lifetime indicators, how many writes were served? Are they wearing out faster than their TBW claims, or are they being written more than you expected?
It’s at 86% with 12.21TB written. Total power on time 68 days. Drive temp sits around 45 degrees celsius.
I’m not paying great attention to all the SMART counters day by day.
It’s for a dev workload so like … compiling code and stuff? I have the exact same workload on my desktop PC and its Samsung drive health is 99% after … years.
OK, so close to 1% lifetime per TBW, or lifetime approximately 100TBW. Thanks! That's consistent with their endurance claims for the smallest SSDs (128GB PM991 for example, or 256GB 960 Evo) but it would be poor for a larger one.
Even Crucial are having tons of issues with current MX500 models.
I think SKHynix might be the last as they supply a lot of OEM over the years. But their consumer base is small so we don't have a huge sample size like Samsungs.
One bricked itself in to read only mode after a few months.
The other has been losing 1% health each week or so. I caught it losing 2% in just two days recently.
These drives are older than the 990 model mentioned in the article but I have my suspicions anyway they’re dud drives.
Nothing lost except time - they can be swapped under warranty. But I used to buy Intel exclusively before swapping to Samsung when Intel started selling rebranded drives.
I guess the search for a reliable vendor starts again…