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I called Samsung since its still under manufacturers warranty and they told me some nonsense about because I bought it from Amazon, they wont acknowledge the warranty. I also tried to do it online and it always returns some stupid issue where something ALWAYS went wrong with the RMA page. I'm not sure If I can press them about it so they do something about it. As for trusting it, maybe not, maybe relegate it to a cache drive or something where I won't be pressed for losing data

So it seems I'm plagued with drive issues in 2022 as my Corsair mp600 boot drive kicked the bucket last month after 4(?) years of service but that's not the issue here, My issue is with one of my gaming SSD's that decided to become problematic after a Battlefield 2042 gaming session a couple of months ago. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction as almost everything I tried resulted in failure and I ultimately decided to just buy a new drive during a sale and go on with my life, but I would like to attempt a recovery of this SSD and use it as some sort of backup if possible. So my issue at hand. I was having issues getting Battlefield 2042 running as the anti-cheat was causing my PC to hang and freeze but not BSOD. Everything would just freeze and only a hard reboot would get windows back in order. This was fine as long as I didn't want to play Battlefield but I was stubborn and I wanted to fix the issue as it was my most played game to date; So I attempted multiple solutions online which all ended the same way, the system hanging. Now because I was doing all of that hard rebooting, something happened to my game drive. It was causing windows 11 to take an incredibly long time to boot 5+ minutes and even to shut down. If I clicked on the drive, it would end up spinning for quite some time before opening its contents but I couldn't really do much as every subsequent action would cause a system hang. It was always displaying 100% disk usage. I used Samsung Magician to check for bad sectors since its a 2TB 870 EVO and it reported some bad sectors. As a last ditch attempt at salvaging the drive at least, the contents weren't important; I tried to reformat the drive with Samsung Magician and that resulted in failure and also attempted to use Aomei to wipe the drive a and that still didn't work. I think the last thing I remember looking at was that it was a "paging" issue and something was being "written" to the drive. Interestingly enough, I put the drive in an enclosure and attempted to access it and reformat it on my laptop and while it shows up as a "local drive" I couldn't do much with it as it would hang that other system and would return an error "a device which does not exist was specified." Is there a fix I can implement myself or would a data recovery service to be able to help? Or is my drive just gone and I need to give it a funeral and stop dragging its corpse around? TLDR: I fucked up trying to solve an issue with a game SSD shows high disk usage even when windows task manger didn't sow much going on Drive shows up on other PC as local disk but cannot do anything with it has a couple of bad sectors Cannot reformat drive I am now backup obsessed

lol yes "play by the rules" If only that were the case.

Did you ever consider the simplest option is that the Euro is weak and the Dollar is strong? Not to mention taxes and VATs?

4080 12 GB has been "unlaunched" by Nvidia. It cant hurt you anymore*in its current form*

Yea, I'm running ICUE for my fans and keyboards. Its why im apprehensive to download armoury crate, hell I'm pretty much considering moving off RGB completely as its a huge hassle. I just wanted to know if I needed crate or not.

Aura sync isn't working and from what I can tell, Signal doesnt support the 40 series yet so Armoury Crate is what ill have to try left. No I don't think ill be doing that but thanks for the absolutely useless advice to my RGB question.

And please tell me its not armoury crate. I was doing well avoiding having to download it

I'm REALLY hoping AMD proves to people that they are not their friends. The amount of comments of seeing AMD "save" is incredibly cringy. I'll never trust a company to operate in the best behavior of the consumer or even their employees because when things start to go bad, its usually those two that suffer. Money is really the only thing that matters.

I like the rounded corners but only for the fact that its the odd boy out this generation.

I'm so glad people are talking about the price differences like its Nvidia's fault that the USD is currently stronger than the EURO. So sick and tired of people claiming its Nvidias fault when its just not a great economy. Just do research FFS.

Its a GPU. Calm down.

huh? A billion small companies that do what? Please enlighten me, I'm genuinely curious.

Which is why I don't understand why no one mentions this. We're probably at a point where we CANT make them powerful AND efficient and I don't think people would be happy with the "incremental" leaps anymore. There HAS to be some sort of trade off at least right now until a breakthrough is made in the technology. Anytime I hear people whine about the power draw of these cards I'm like? what exactly are you expecting?

This is my reasoning as well. Featureset and support for production is weak. I love to game but i also love it when my card can do more than just push its gaming performance.