Heat management is important with this drive and also getting an early model when they first came out because I been running a 512GB XPG drive since 2019 and had no issues with it, the drive has always been covered with a Asiahorse NVMe ARGB aluminum heatsink and I've have no issues with it. 2 years ago Linus tech tips did a video about XPG Drives, they are bad drives unless you got an early model before when the manufacturer wasn't having squarely business practices but the one in my system on the box is dated from 2018 so it's an early model I got off amazon. Adata which is the chip maker for XPG also sold their own brand of drives and they are complete and utter crap!
My Adata XPG started failing after a year or so. Randomly disconnecting and its a good thing I was able to painstakingly backup my files in there. Awful drive.
Thanks for sharing. That is very interesting. Haven't tried Silicon Power drives yet, but after what I went through with ADATA, I think I'll rather go with a premium manufacturer.
I have the same problem with 1TB sx8200 pro model on 99% remaining life with medium sized heatsink. My first suspicion was my motherboard failure (Z97 chipset). Until recently I carry over my drive to the newer system (AMD B650) motherboard the problem still persist. what a crap!
oh boi. i bought the same stuff, but 2tb. its a 2ndary drive in my at-home pc. so not used much. but still. im not that worried about thermals though, im using it with a bigger heatsink from day 0. the included stuff is a joke. ill send some thermal if i wont forget.
Perhaps you are lucky and your drive is not affected. But who can tell for sure? I'd rather be careful. I've also heard from a colleague of mine his SX8200 Pro developed very many bad blocks, too.
so my thermals seem fine, the hottest i could get it was 56 deg, in hw info. i think that is controller temp, other 4 temps were at 44C max (nand?), and one other temp (dram?) was at 40c max. though I ran the drive in pce g2 x4 mode, because i dont have that many lanes available. speed is ok-ish, 1.5 gig/s read and write seq. conditions: in a pce expansion card below an rx590, with cheapo heatsinks zip-tied to it with thin thermal pads and some thermal paste. lifespan? time will tell. @@savvylayman
Thanks for asking. Actually, I use an old Zyxel NAS540 as a target backup device. It is rather slow and not very sophisticated, so I'm just presenting a bunch of SMB shares on RAID5 and write to these.
I made the mistake of buying two of these discs, one on Aliexpress, and the other in my country, the first one died after 3 months, and they didn't let me claim warranty, and the second one, after more than a year, just die today, I spent around $200 on these discs, I feel very sad, I will never buy anything from the ADATA brand again
Thanks for sharing. It's a shame ADATA never issued any recall or whatever. They must have known at this point. Kinda like Intel tried to sweep the situation with their 13th and 14th gen under the rug. ADATA was apparently more successful in doing so. Hope you didn't lose any important data.
Right now I'm have stability issues and it's due to a bad Bequite PSU that has a weak failing rail I think, shocking I paid a lot of money for this PSU and it had a 5 year warranty and died just outside that warranty but I replaced it with a Corser modular model that I also paid way to much for and has a 10 year warranty! 😂😂🤣🤣
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Heat management is important with this drive and also getting an early model when they first came out because I been running a 512GB XPG drive since 2019 and had no issues with it, the drive has always been covered with a Asiahorse NVMe ARGB aluminum heatsink and I've have no issues with it. 2 years ago Linus tech tips did a video about XPG Drives, they are bad drives unless you got an early model before when the manufacturer wasn't having squarely business practices but the one in my system on the box is dated from 2018 so it's an early model I got off amazon. Adata which is the chip maker for XPG also sold their own brand of drives and they are complete and utter crap!
My Adata XPG started failing after a year or so. Randomly disconnecting and its a good thing I was able to painstakingly backup my files in there. Awful drive.
I've had a lot of issues with varying sizes of Silicon Power nvme drives myself. 4 gone bad in the same way so far all within first year of purchase.
Thanks for sharing. That is very interesting. Haven't tried Silicon Power drives yet, but after what I went through with ADATA, I think I'll rather go with a premium manufacturer.
I have the same problem with 1TB sx8200 pro model on 99% remaining life with medium sized heatsink. My first suspicion was my motherboard failure (Z97 chipset). Until recently I carry over my drive to the newer system (AMD B650) motherboard the problem still persist. what a crap!
oh boi. i bought the same stuff, but 2tb. its a 2ndary drive in my at-home pc. so not used much. but still.
im not that worried about thermals though, im using it with a bigger heatsink from day 0. the included stuff is a joke. ill send some thermal if i wont forget.
Perhaps you are lucky and your drive is not affected. But who can tell for sure? I'd rather be careful. I've also heard from a colleague of mine his SX8200 Pro developed very many bad blocks, too.
so my thermals seem fine, the hottest i could get it was 56 deg, in hw info. i think that is controller temp, other 4 temps were at 44C max (nand?), and one other temp (dram?) was at 40c max. though I ran the drive in pce g2 x4 mode, because i dont have that many lanes available. speed is ok-ish, 1.5 gig/s read and write seq. conditions: in a pce expansion card below an rx590, with cheapo heatsinks zip-tied to it with thin thermal pads and some thermal paste. lifespan? time will tell. @@savvylayman
Have you thought about setting up a backup on a NAS?
Thanks for asking. Actually, I use an old Zyxel NAS540 as a target backup device. It is rather slow and not very sophisticated, so I'm just presenting a bunch of SMB shares on RAID5 and write to these.
I made the mistake of buying two of these discs, one on Aliexpress, and the other in my country, the first one died after 3 months, and they didn't let me claim warranty, and the second one, after more than a year, just die today, I spent around $200 on these discs, I feel very sad, I will never buy anything from the ADATA brand again
Thanks for sharing. It's a shame ADATA never issued any recall or whatever. They must have known at this point. Kinda like Intel tried to sweep the situation with their 13th and 14th gen under the rug. ADATA was apparently more successful in doing so. Hope you didn't lose any important data.
Right now I'm have stability issues and it's due to a bad Bequite PSU that has a weak failing rail I think, shocking I paid a lot of money for this PSU and it had a 5 year warranty and died just outside that warranty but I replaced it with a Corser modular model that I also paid way to much for and has a 10 year warranty! 😂😂🤣🤣
When I was younger, I used to think spending premium on a PSU was a waste of money. I've learned my lesson, too.
Unexperienced with backups ? ;)
Yeah because backups should be necessary for the basic function of storage. 🙄
For how many years have I worked as backup engineer? Oops! 0:-)
@@allan2665 Yeah, my backup designed was bad, but unreliability of this particular SSD model is truly remarkable.