I bought 5 of these less than two years ago, though they were the 500 GB model. Every single one of them has failed - some within 45 days and just outside the return period. The last one, which I honestly forgot was still running and thought I’d replaced, failed this morning.
These SSDs are absolute garbage and their warranty replacements are a joke (read: you’re outta luck, Chuck). Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me 6 times, well, shame one me for buying them again, I guess. lol. I had one fail prior to this batch, but assumed it was an oddball.
Pro tip: Never buy Silicon Power (SP) SSDs. I you have any in use, make sure you have backups running daily and that you check those backups every so often.
Seems like the 3v3 regulator is what goes out on these, but I’m not going to bother trying to repair it since I’ve got backups.
Really weird warranty 45 days, are you sure these are not fake?
I have some of their ssds, and the warranty is 5 years
Oh, the warranty is 5 years. The Amazon return period was 30 days, and they failed outside of that window.
For their warranty claims, they make you jump through a lot of hoops to even get started on an RMA, plus I had to pay shipping. Ultimately, I figured they’d just send another piece of junk, so I cut my losses and bought Samsungs to replace them.
Please leave a review (for these failed drives) for the future rest of us
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That makes me feel lucky that Australia’s consumer laws are decent. If that happened here, it’s the customer’s choice whether they want to deal with the manufacturer or the retailer.
Credit cards can protect you here. Some have warranty policies.
What’s the problem then? I’m living in a country where there is no return period 🫣
Yep, I’ve had two die on me, both within a year of purchase, for no real reason whatsoever. I’m never buying that brand again.
https://halestrom.net/darksleep/blog/054_nvme/
Summary: two Silicon Power P34A80’s died within a few months of use, the second one was the warranty replacement of the first. In both cases sectors suddenly became permanently unreadable.
It says “ASS” right on the drive! That’s how you know you’ll have problems.
Got a similar problem with ocz drives before they got acquired by Toshiba. Bought three, 100% failure rate just after warranty expiration
Damn, all of my ocz ssds are still working. I know they’re garbage, so I’m not doubting you. I’m just amazed mine have made it this long. They’re still in my PC.
I have one of the originals, but I retired that one due to how slow it’s write speeds were.
But my two Vertex and one Agility are still kicking.
I have a 64gb one still going, one of the originals haha
Seems like the 3v3 regulator is what goes out on these
Wow, they’ve really reached the bone on cost saving with this one to have a fucking voltage regulator be the straw that broke the camel’s back.
I don’t know if that’s the failure case for them all, but I did read that on a forum and successfully recovered data from one of them by soldering on a temporary 3v3 regulator from my parts box.
Might even say they ran like A55
They’re almost not even low key admitting it…
Where did you buy them from? There’s been an uptick in counterfeit storage and flash chips getting into new products.
Both batches from Amazon (months apart). I also bought one of that brand a few years ago (2017?) that ultimately failed within 2 years as well.
I said this in another comment, but best I can tell, the actual flash chips seem to be fine and it’s the support circuitry (power regulator, SATA controller, etc) that seems to be failing.
I’d assume it’s got something to do with the system you’re using them on, some issue with power or something that better quality drives are able to handle, but not these.
These are cheap, yes, but if everyone ordering these was failing just outside the return period, they’d have far more 1 star ratings.
I bought a 512 GB one of these 5 1/2 years ago, and it’s been reliable. The exception is when I hit ~10% free space a couple times. The drive immediately suffered from horrendous read times, and locked up my system. Worked fine when I freed up enough space. Nowadays, I only use it for extra Steam library storage, since I don’t trust it, but it hasn’t let me down since
Since we are talking about cheap ssds, what do you guys think of netac?
What’s wild is I have had a 1TB one of these running for like 4 or 5 years now without issues, and I’ve had 2 nice Samsung’s (a 970 and 980) die in that time frame. I’ve basically come to the conclusion that modern consumer storage can’t be trusted or relied on in general. Robust back-up solutions of anything I’m worried about losing, preferably to a cloud service (or 2)…
I’ve been using that bad boy for about 3 years continuously in my server and 1 year in my desktop. Surprised it hasn’t died on me yet, lol.
Go buy a lottery ticket and use the winnings to replace it, lol. Because you are lucky (based on my experience with that brand).
I bought a ssd off of eBay and it failed within 90 days. It was very cheap.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
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I rather buy used ssds off eBay from a known brand.
