Dead ssd?

[AussieTanker]

Hey all so  was playing some games yesterday when all of a sudden my computer crashed and started booting into bios. couldn't get windows to install on this ssd because it was set to read only but I managed to get it installed on my second ssd
i have tried changing the ssd out of read only mode but no luck so I checked crystaldiskinfo does this mean that it is dead?

 

 

[PineyCreek]

What does the Samsung-specific software Magician say?

 

Side note: If you're within 5 years, you're within warranty.

https://semiconductor.samsung.com/resources/data-sheet/Samsung_NVMe_SSD_970_EVO_Plus_Data_Sheet_Rev.3.0.pdf

 

Not sure if this is you or not, but someone else with similar issues:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/xggxjc/failed_samsung_ssd_970_evo_plus_1tb/

 

Considering the circumstances on other reports sound the same, I'd say probably? RO mode, clone, warranty if you can.  Most bad 970 reports I can find seems to point to running out of spare blocks.

[AussieTanker]

5 minutes ago, PineyCreek said:

What does the Samsung-specific software Magician say?

will install it and find out

 

[AussieTanker]

10 minutes ago, PineyCreek said:

What does the Samsung-specific software Magician say?

Doing a diagnostic scan as well anything else i should check?

[thekingofmonks]

Backup your files and send the drive back to samsung through warranty.

[PineyCreek]

16 minutes ago, AussieTanker said:

Doing a diagnostic scan as well anything else i should check?

Odd...my 960 M.2 lets me view the SMART details.  Doubt a firmware update would help...probably wouldn't want to try until you had a clone/backup anyway.

 

The SMART output on Samsung Magician gives a bit more info on each variable.  Not sure if that's a Admin thing or not available on 970.  My guess is that it's marked bad specifically because you're above its critical threshold for available spare blocks.  I've tried finding firmware details (i.e. what do the individual firmware versions fix) but I can't find them...and all firmware updates are done through the Magician software.

 

If it's failing because it has no more spare blocks though, probably hardware.  I'd ping Samsung directly and see what they said, but I'd still take a backup/clone ASAP.

[AussieTanker]

2 minutes ago, PineyCreek said:

Odd...my 960 M.2 lets me view the SMART details.  Doubt a firmware update would help...probably wouldn't want to try until you had a clone/backup anyway.

 

The SMART output on Samsung Magician gives a bit more info on each variable.  Not sure if that's a Admin thing or not available on 970.  My guess is that it's marked bad specifically because you're above its critical threshold for available spare blocks.  I've tried finding firmware details (i.e. what do the individual firmware versions fix) but I can't find them...and all firmware updates are done through the Magician software.

 

If it's failing because it has no more spare blocks though, probably hardware.  I'd ping Samsung directly and see what they said, but I'd still take a backup/clone ASAP.

ok thanks for the help. Now when I was trying to reinstall windows i formatted the drive because i was getting errors when trying to do it and was recommended to format it to try and fix is so my question is is the data gone for good or is it still recoverable. sorry for the questions but i haven't really had to deal with storage problems before so i don't know much about it