I've only ever had one SSD fail. That was a chepo no-name SATA 120 Gig drive, three years ago. Haven't had one fail since, knock on wood. Over the last 30 years I have replaced DOZENS of HDD's, though.
I have HDDs from windows XP days that still work to this day. Ive seen a SSD die about 2 months ago suddenly and it was only 4yrs old. I have a laptop from 2016 that uses HDD that has been put through hell from architectural software, rendering software, video editing software, hardcore gaming and it surprises me it has not died as yet due to the stress its been put under. The SSD was put under similar stress and it only lasted 4yrs. It seems software that writes alot to the SSD kills it quicker than its intended lifespan.
I have a Samsung 840 PRO 512GB SATA SSD that has been running since 2013 (9 years) without an issue! Has my OS as well as a few games on it. I have always kept it no more than 50% full. Thanks for the videos!
I have been pretty lucky with Samsung NVMe drives for the past 10 years, only had 1 fail. I have never had some of my SATA SSD hard drives for 6 years or so in my Truenas server (5-4TB drives & 3-1TB Samsung ). Thanks for the video
most SSD's ive had fail were the SATA ones.. never by wear though usually the ports snap off by then during usual cleaning/maint but rare cases i had SATA SSD's stop working and all of those i so far managed to revive by taking PCB out and just giving it gentle bends in few sections.. now they were also old drives like SATA 2 early SATA 3 models but whats funny is they still work fine today, now not in active use as much but doing just fine. so far never had a NVME fail yet only cause i just recently bought into this types, i had one drop on me month back but some times taking them out and cleaning the contacts/re-seatting could fix a possible what seems dead NVME/SSD which worked for me in this case, but if important things on it and that does not work could always try my method of just gentle bend flex it slight and could work long enough to backup off of i mean its dead by that point not much to loose unless plan to take it to a data recover place then don't do that of course.
NVME drives do fail, and are faulty sometimes. It's almost impossible to diagnose NVME drives since they don't have smart. Beware! Only buy fancy/good nvme drives! Sometimes I've had to just clone it off to another one and that fixes it...it plugs directly into pci express like a gpu or other pci express card they are kind of wacky. Cloning them off or seeing if you can at least POST with a different NVME drive installed is often necessary, some systems don't even have SATA imagine how frustrating that could be. On SATA drives the best diagnostic is GSMARTCONTROL which is open source and free, but rarely you can have no reds in that tool and still have a bad SATA drive, but it's super rare.
I have the same ssd there. I think it’s failed because it’s 4/5 years old now. Also I was recently downloading lots of heavy files over night and through the day. Not good for it. Hundreds of gigs, also lots of deleting files. Going to try to clean the port and the connection with compressed. But might need a new one since it won’t pop on my file location settings.
Some how the NVM.e failed in my work laptop. Not sure why or how but windows pops up now and says it last 3 times I've turned it on. It also BSOD noted as failed HDD.
Wow! I was just getting ready to pay someone to transfer my files from my hard drive which after 4 years is still working fine, to an SSD card. I was told that I should. I'm wondering if I should switch given the cost of it all. I have no tech experience at all. Thank you!
I like all your videos they are pretty cool and I learned the things, I use my gaming PC everything because I am disabled and can't do anything else. So I just said computers are meant to be used, so if I have it on all day nothing will happen?
I heard that SSD'S Fail too because the defrag setting was left on in computer clean up settings and they are only meant for mechanical hard drives and ruin SSD'S.
@@WCT true sometimes its just faulty from manufacturer i had samsung 980 pro failed last year like it started to do bsods daily and after i installed on my older sata no bsod for weeks so i rma it and get money back and bought kingston m2 drive and its fine
Basically it doesn’t matter if you defrag every day for years, the drive won’t fail. The reason why its not recommended is because on an SSD, fragmented data can be accessed at the same speed as perfectly organized data. When a file gets deleted on an SSD, it doesn’t actually get deleted, the OS just marks the space as “available” and will eventually be overwritten by new data. Windows should do this automatically, it’s called trim not defrag. If windows is actually defragging an SSD it’s because a setting is enabled or a command was run that shouldn’t have been run.
I've only ever had one SSD fail. That was a chepo no-name SATA 120 Gig drive, three years ago. Haven't had one fail since, knock on wood. Over the last 30 years I have replaced DOZENS of HDD's, though.
My 1TB 960 EVO NVME is going on just over 6 years and no issues. I do have decent air flow over the device and the temps stay between 30° and 36°C.
I have HDDs from windows XP days that still work to this day. Ive seen a SSD die about 2 months ago suddenly and it was only 4yrs old. I have a laptop from 2016 that uses HDD that has been put through hell from architectural software, rendering software, video editing software, hardcore gaming and it surprises me it has not died as yet due to the stress its been put under. The SSD was put under similar stress and it only lasted 4yrs. It seems software that writes alot to the SSD kills it quicker than its intended lifespan.
I have a Samsung 840 PRO 512GB SATA SSD that has been running since 2013 (9 years) without an issue! Has my OS as well as a few games on it. I have always kept it no more than 50% full.
Thanks for the videos!
Sounds like u mitigated its failure in the way u use it. It's unfortunate we have to watch how we use SSDs because of finite write cycles.
I have been pretty lucky with Samsung NVMe drives for the past 10 years, only had 1 fail. I have never had some of my SATA SSD hard drives for 6 years or so in my Truenas server (5-4TB drives & 3-1TB Samsung ).
Thanks for the video
my ssd on my old thinkpad started to fail in may 2021 with it blue screening randomly and glitching out like crazy.
Checked the health on my SSD and it's 100% despite being a year old
A whole year old? ...... Wow! That's amazing! 🤣
I've got tech, that decades upon decades old, and still working 100%!
Thank you so much! I just finally bought my first ssd yesterday and was having a lil fear about reaching that write cap
most SSD's ive had fail were the SATA ones.. never by wear though usually the ports snap off by then during usual cleaning/maint but rare cases i had SATA SSD's stop working and all of those i so far managed to revive by taking PCB out and just giving it gentle bends in few sections.. now they were also old drives like SATA 2 early SATA 3 models but whats funny is they still work fine today, now not in active use as much but doing just fine. so far never had a NVME fail yet only cause i just recently bought into this types, i had one drop on me month back but some times taking them out and cleaning the contacts/re-seatting could fix a possible what seems dead NVME/SSD which worked for me in this case, but if important things on it and that does not work could always try my method of just gentle bend flex it slight and could work long enough to backup off of i mean its dead by that point not much to loose unless plan to take it to a data recover place then don't do that of course.
NVME drives do fail, and are faulty sometimes. It's almost impossible to diagnose NVME drives since they don't have smart. Beware! Only buy fancy/good nvme drives! Sometimes I've had to just clone it off to another one and that fixes it...it plugs directly into pci express like a gpu or other pci express card they are kind of wacky. Cloning them off or seeing if you can at least POST with a different NVME drive installed is often necessary, some systems don't even have SATA imagine how frustrating that could be. On SATA drives the best diagnostic is GSMARTCONTROL which is open source and free, but rarely you can have no reds in that tool and still have a bad SATA drive, but it's super rare.
So what about HDD and if they last longer?
I have the same ssd there. I think it’s failed because it’s 4/5 years old now. Also I was recently downloading lots of heavy files over night and through the day. Not good for it. Hundreds of gigs, also lots of deleting files. Going to try to clean the port and the connection with compressed. But might need a new one since it won’t pop on my file location settings.
What about bad blocks?
Some how the NVM.e failed in my work laptop. Not sure why or how but windows pops up now and says it last 3 times I've turned it on. It also BSOD noted as failed HDD.
Could be that they are not cooled enough
Wow! I was just getting ready to pay someone to transfer my files from my hard drive which after 4 years is still working fine, to an SSD card. I was told that I should. I'm wondering if I should switch given the cost of it all. I have no tech experience at all. Thank you!
move to SSD but keep a backup in HDD also
Thank God for being able to speed up videos 1.25 and 1.5x
I like all your videos they are pretty cool and I learned the things, I use my gaming PC everything because I am disabled and can't do anything else. So I just said computers are meant to be used, so if I have it on all day nothing will happen?
no will work great
I heard that SSD'S Fail too because the defrag setting was left on in computer clean up settings and they are only meant for mechanical hard drives and ruin SSD'S.
defrag has nothing to do with the drive failing
@@WCT true sometimes its just faulty from manufacturer i had samsung 980 pro failed last year like it started to do bsods daily and after i installed on my older sata no bsod for weeks so i rma it and get money back and bought kingston m2 drive and its fine
@@WCT and it us true it was pretty hot like close to 60… now with kingston m2 under 40 around 35 even now when summer is starting
Basically it doesn’t matter if you defrag every day for years, the drive won’t fail. The reason why its not recommended is because on an SSD, fragmented data can be accessed at the same speed as perfectly organized data. When a file gets deleted on an SSD, it doesn’t actually get deleted, the OS just marks the space as “available” and will eventually be overwritten by new data. Windows should do this automatically, it’s called trim not defrag. If windows is actually defragging an SSD it’s because a setting is enabled or a command was run that shouldn’t have been run.
@@zackstaa7826 Setting such as????
Very true we have android phones that no one cares about and they do run for 5 years even before getting obsolete rather than failing
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I bought a Samsung 2 t 980 pro brandnew and it never worked from day one 😤😤😤😤👎👎
i got my first 1TB drive and it faild instantly.
1st In!!!