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.

  • TurboTurbo
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    1 year ago

    Interesting, I am dealing with a similar issue right now. I have a Samsung 980 Pro 2 TB nvme where files have become corrupted over the last few months (took me a while to notice). I am trying to get it replaced under warranty, but the company where I bought my laptop wants to run all sorts of tests and is suggesting to reformat the SSD :S even though the smartmontools lists a ton of errors (the SMART overall health self assessment test did say ‘PASSED’ though). I have only written 8.20 TB to it.

    • clehaxze@reddthat.comOP
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      1 year ago

      Can you check your spare capacity? Run smartctl -a /dev/nvme<id>

      Also which FS are you using? I have switched to BTRFS root partition to catch these errors as early as I can.

  • Solo@vlemmy.net
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    1 year ago

    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?

      • Solo@vlemmy.net
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        1 year ago

        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.comOP
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          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.