ADATA SX6000 problems

tig360 · March 22, 2021

Hi everyone. Hoping you are having a fantastic day.

I've been having some issues with my ADATA SX6000 NVMe drive. I bought it about 2 years ago and I think it's starting to tell me it needs to retire.

Some quick background:
One morning, my laptop wouldn't boot up because there was some error with my winload.efi. I tried a bunch of stuff, but the only thing that worked was putting the drive in my desktop and running the error checking utility. Corrupt data was found and the drive was "fixed". Windows booted up. Since I was worried about windows being messed up, but not wanting to have to go through a clean OS install, I did an in place upgrade to 20H2. It worked for a day and then more data corruption. I decided to then just do a clean install.

This seemed to have worked, but a windows update a day later caused issues again. I decided to give up on my SSD as the boot drive and clean installed windows on my HDD. Ever since, I've had no issues. I ran chkdsk on my SSD again but it isnt finding any issues. Also, Crystal Disk Info says my drive health is at 87%. This is really confusing me.

My question is, would it be worth it to try and return it and get it exchanged? I believe my drive has at least a 3 year warrantee, although I would have to contact ADATA South Africa directly as the retailer I bought it from closed down due to the pandemic.

Thanks for any opinions and input.