Samsung Issues new Firmware to prevent Dying 980 Pro SSDs
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Kaarme
Uhhuh... My 980 Pro 1TB has that exact firmware. I guess I need to install Samsung SSD Wizard. It shows no media and data integrity errors and available spare is at 100, so I guess I've been safe until now. Luckily I was not late, but I was not early either. Perhaps I'm right on time.
Thanks for the headsup!
Glottiz
Ummm what? 5B2QGXA7 firmware was released over a year ago.
Sounds like you picked up year old news story that was already resolved. Maybe you got confused and mixed up 980 Pro and 990 Pro (which was just making headlines recently) ?
RealNC
What's the point of going into read-only mode if there's no way to recover the data? If I put my USB disk in read-only mode, I can read it just fine :P
mbk1969
barbacot
It seems that 970 EVO drives are also affected....
Thank God I switched some years ago from samsung to WD 850 Black for all my NVMe drives and once you go black you never go back - everybody knows....
NiColaoS
JamesSneed
Kaarme
Samsung SSD Magician didn't find a new firmware for my 970 EVO, only for the 980 Pro. I've no recollection of updating the 970 EVO firmware, so if I did, it most certainly wasn't very recently (during the last few years).
Astyanax
geogan
I noticed only yesterday that some Steam game installs on my Sabrent Rocket NVMe 4.0 M.2 SSD 2TB game drive were reporting file errors
I did a Steam verify of about 10 games installed on the drive and most were OK but a few had 1 or two files with errors out of a couple GB installs
eg below Automobilista 2 two files in 86GB .
A plague Tail Innocence had 1 file in 41GB,
Project Cars 2 had 1 file in 50GB
I only noticed this when Automobilista crashed mid game and told me some file it tried to load was corrupt.
I hope all these fancy new motherboard SSD are not all slowly fading away and losing bits all over the place... if it wasn't for the Steam validator I wouldn't have even been able to check these. But who knows what other files are corrupt now - wouldn't see this kind of problem on an old fashioned mechanical drive.
Kushana
I had one of the 2TB 980Pro SSDs that failed. I bought it in Feb. 2022, and it failed in Nov. after about 20TB of writes. Contrary to what the story says, you absolutely can read data off of it after it goes into RO mode. You can't boot from it, though.
Samsung honoured its warranty through the retailer and gave me my purchase price back, which translated into a 2TB Kingston KC3000 and $200 spare for me.
waltc3
It's only for the newer 980 Pro 2TB SSD, and it's just a bios fix--you install new bios firmware via Magician and that is supposed to solve the problem. That may be why people were seeing more drive writing than they thought they should see with this model. Probably anyone with that particular 2TB SSD should update the firmware.
toyo
Hard to understand how they messed this up so badly. I own a few 970 Evo+ drives, and some even (much) older ones like the 850 Evo, and they never developed any media errors in years of use and dozens of written TB. Crazy that a large tech business like Samsung managed to fail like this, let's hope the firmware fixes things, although more details about what exactly happened and how the drives died would be nice. Is it a firmware "cosmetic" error? Is the NAND fine? Is the drive actually writing itself to death?
MaCk0y
kakarot
toyo
Crazy Joe
Glottiz
toyo
Glottiz