Glad I found this video. My drive (1tb) died yesterday. I submitted my RMA. I purchased my drive Feb 2021 and it does fall within the range of the failing drives. I own three ether Samsung SATA drives. Now I want to test them all :(

Unfortunately going with the Pro line is not exactly a choice for most of us. The price difference is massive. Like 9 times as much massive. Is not like we are gonna throw just $50 more or something.

My 870 just went out as well. It has been a huge headache troubleshooting the problem...

had the same thing happen to me. I have experienced read errors and checksum errors from it. I used it in a zfs raid array. and ironically it is the most expensive of the bunch. and all other brands survived (crucial and timec), while 870 evo 1tb failed. luckily, their customer service is quite excellent. I was able to send the drive back with a prepaid bag mailed to me by samsung. and a replacement drive arrived today. I was expecting to see an refurnished drive like a lot of people on the forums. but to my surprise, I got a brand new one with zero bytes written. so although the quality of the drive should have been better. or Samsung should have a official recall. but if you have a faulty drive, I think Samsung will provide you with a replacement, so definitely contact their customer support.

I have an 860, 970evo and 980. Barely any use, all under 3-4tb written, but now I want to check them haha

Does this issue affect OEM versions of Samsung NVME drives like the PM9A1. From what I understand, it's the OEM equivalent to the 980 pro in terms of specs and build. My issue is that the Magician software doesn't work with OEM versions.

Same problem (read errors) on a 512 Gb 870 EVO sata (2.5") after ~ 90 days life time and 1.753Tb written (90 days of continuous usage, that means ~ 9 months of 8 hours per day usage). Can't be fixed with something like chkdsk, because it freezes at that block without doing anything (great dealing with bad blocks from a disk utility, makes you miss the old days when you get a read error, being able to ignore it and get to the next block allowing you to actually get some data recovered. Guess the new narrative is as long as the failure is not recognized it does not exist😂). What a 'great' SSD.

I swapped out my original WD 256g nvme ssd main/C: for a Samsung 980 Pro 2TB with heat sink nvme main/C:. Cloned it with Samsung Magician; It estimated 30 minutes to clone, but finished in 17:50. I'm keeping the original WD stored away in the transfer case in case of emergency. Plan to get two Samsung 870 EVO 2TB SSD's for secondary internal storage. (cheaper for two than a single 4TB, and if one goes down, I don't lose everything all at once.) I still have a bunch of old HDD's boxed up from years ago that all work, so those may be useful someday.

Was planning on upgrading to this for an old 9 yr old laptop with hdd so i can use it as a backup pc. I would then clone my old hdd then store it somewhere. If ever the new ssd drive fails, can i use the old hdd again that i cloned? I know I'll loose some data but is that okay? I have to redownload windows updates again right? But it should work as before i swapped to an ssd?

Thanks for letting me that valuable thing "Don't put any important on these". I ordered 2 of these 870 evo 1TB ones on amazon for both of my laptop and my workstation 😞 Not sure which manufacturing lot ones will I get. Hey, couple of questions if you can clarify, appreciate that. 1) Any idea of 2023 batch lot failing too? 2) are other brand SSD more reliable than Samsung EVO? Which ones? Barracuda metal ones were much much more reliable than these. Finally, God bless me & my data.

I had two of mine fail this week. I have 3 more in my main PC so worried those are going to fail also. Currently trying to figure out what alt to get.

Thanks for the video. This is very concerning and a big disappointment from Samsung.

Can you do the follow up on your drive, is the new one from 2022 any better? I'd be very appreciated for feedback

Road too 1k lets goo 🎉🎉

Mine just started failing after getting it about a month ago. Absolutely ridiculous, my bios detected it and repaired it once but I came back the next day to my computer not detecting it again. Really thought Samsung was more reliable

I have a 2 year old 870 EVO 500GB NVME that went bad this month. It is recognized by Windows but unable to open it and trying to open Disk manager or any disk tools would freeze or would fail to load, however I attached it with an external NVME adaptor and thankfully a Recovery software worked great and allowed me to take everything off that was not backed up. It is still under warranty but I prefer to keep it in case I discover something I need form it and I have other drives, I replaced it with an 870 PRO 1TB I had sitting around. I also had a failed SanDisk external drive SSD, not good. I did not even use it much at all, it was just for transferring items usually to friends so at least it had nothing important on it.

I have an 870 EVO (release date - March 2023). This disk uses the latest firmware version SVT02B6Q. The disk worked for 2 hours during the RAID array bulkhead - and used up 48% of vitality. At the same time, he recorded only 1.9 tb. Complete shit. And yes, I bought 4 disks and everything is in critical condition.

God damn it!! After having two Samsung smartphones die on me and a TV and another with issues and night mare washing machine and a freaking horrible curved screen(that was the last drop) i said NEVER. This guys have no quality control in anything. And i kept away for some good time now, but i wanted an SSD and everyone was praising Samsung SSD so against my better judgement i thought i trust them one last time. Maybe just maybe their SSD stuff is good for so many people to praise them. And what i bought? Yeah you got it right.. 870 EVO. And now i see this! I am just shaking my head. I just want to go to a mirror and ask myself what was i thinking. I guess my only hope is that i bought this lately so it will be at least after 2022 manufactured and is a 2TB one. Also my distrust in them is high so i back up everything on normal hard drives.

Just had one fail on me 2 days ago. not sure how old, but right now, can't even put a file system, or low-level format. very disheartening.

i have 2 of 870 qvo. I use it for a year now and It working just fine.

I'm victim too, but i lost some data (first my lapotop failed indenpedently) so i attributed problems to this, but soon truth surfaced.... RMA replacement seems working fine (fingers crossed)

How is the WD Blue 2 Tb SSD , manufactured in 2021. I just purchased it in India brand new from Flipkart

Did you say that your replaced is 2022-10 or the one that failed was 2022-10? Asking for a friend. (I used smartctl to check mine and so far.. good)

I have an 870 EVO 500GB and I keep getting BSOD's very often, about 2 BSODs per day. The latest driver version is SVT02B6Q - up to date The manufacturing date on the SSD is 05.2023 - Are they still problematic? What are the latest batches that are not problematic? Did they build 2024 batches yet for the 870 EVO ?

Hello, greetings from the Philippines. I am planning to upgrade SSD and my first choice is Samsung and second choice is Crucial. By the way, can I also check the manufacturing date on the box without opening the item in case I bought Samsung SSD? I already bought my Samsung 970 NVME and I don't know if this also connects to your video too.

i have the 250gb model crapped on me a year ago. i bought it in mid 2021 and used it for about 4 months. then it'd show a few signs of dying such as random BSODs with unexpected_store_exception error code. i did a fresh reinstall and the same problem persist. i didnt know what the problem was as i moved on to another new ssd of mine which has 500gb of storage and used to this day and still has no issue. so i turned the samsung ssd drive into a linux drive. few days went on it'd work just fine. and after that the OS would just lockup and i cant do anything. at that point i concluded that my samsung ssd has died on me

My 870 EVO 4Tb build 09-2022 failed. Samsung Magician could never show it even when the OS did.

have two of them and after two years they are still going strong.

actually i'm thinking of buying lexar 2T m.2 but i'm afraid cuz it's doesn't have Dram which made me hesitant to buy it . i want it for video editing ! any recommendations ? or there is no problem if take them ?

All the reviews from when they 1st came out was the Pro's would have much more life then the EVO or QVO

Hmm. Was thinking about buying one in store today. Just a 1tb though. Any suggestions?

I was planning to get an Evo 870, which year should I get or should I get Lexar instead? Thanks in advance.

I am a ME fan as well. Finished of all 3 games on PS3, Xbox one and an Jailbreaken ps4 pro. It think BioWare has doomed and we will never see anything like ME games, especially first one is a real rpg to me I am on PS4 pro as on last software now. My stock PS4 pro's HDD broken when i on Star wars fallen order 2 years ago and changed it with another Sata HDD samsung 2TB. And after several months when i play game The HDD has started make weird voices like " diiiiiiiiii" As of yesterday, i ordered 870 evo 500gb. hope it wont fail cus i am planing to play ME series 4th time :) Before watch your video, I just seen the picture behind you, and said about " oh that lad is look like erik ten hag and i didn't know he fancy for Mass effect games " 😂😂

I got a 1tb which is randomly running at 100% on performance. This was a separate drive to install games. When I tried loading a game, it won't open. So I tried to transfer in file from my other drive to samsung and the speed is fast, But when I am transferring from this 870 evo to my other drive, its very slow. The read speed is super slow. I just purchased mine last month (October 2023), it's been a month and now it's dying!

I have a 870 evo 500gb. Production 2023 06 07. I hope its ok. Thanks for the video.

On Samsung SSD sata drives and NVMe drives build in 2020/2021 the Firmware shipped with the drives has a bug which kills your drive. So update the firmware ASAP I've updated all my drives and they are working perfectly A mate of mine purchased the same drives at the same time at the same shop as I did ....BUT.... He DIDN'T update the firmware and all his drives have failed So run the Samsung tool test for bad blocks if you have no bad blocks or only have a couple of bad blocks run the firmware update it will help stop the bad blocks getting worse if you have them and if you don't have them it will stop you getting them from the bug in the original firmware. It up to you I'm just sharing what I did with the hope it helps someone else

My 2021 870 Evo just fail Today. Samsung in Argentina doesn't even recognize the 5 year warranty. Sadly this ssd was my main and only drive and I don't even have any money to buy a new one

So I got the Samsung magician and it’s not detecting my other drive only my 870 evo The other drive I have is a 870 qvo 2tb I have 2 of them both stoped working. One stop working so because that stop working. Like it go one online then offline and could not access my games. Nore the storage file. Kept doing that. Then when you disconnect it both stop working. Long story short I deleted the things and manage to unmerge both drivers and now both are working again. But I took off the one that had caused the issue originally. Didn’t plugged it back in incase it did the same thing And I have the Samsung magician but not detecting the 870 qvo on it. Is there a ways to add it so i can do a diagnostic on it?

We We already have 6 defective 870 EVO SATA drives, manufactured in 2021, various capacities, which we have sold in the past and more are coming...

I planned on getting a 870 Evo 500GB. But now, do you think I should get a MX500 500GB instead?

My Samsung 870 EVO 2TB bought in June 2023 failed after 6 months. Not writing much, 95% only reading, on Linux. First it was still displaying the device name and infos, and I could successfully repair the volume with a repair tool (Windows). Everything looked normal again. After 3 weeks total breakdown in the middle of writing something. Not even the device name is visible in Windows Device Manager. Only "Unknown Device". With that any software can do nothing anymore. Even Samsung Magician can't recognize it.

Sata ssd for home use are getting worse, I guess I'll switch to server sata ssd.

This just happened to me with my drive from May 2021. All I did was download a game overnight, and when I came down, the pc was in bios. It started super slow, lagging my pc, and it drove me insane and the drive ended up completely frying. I just got my new replacement yesterday!

Had an 870 evo die on me dated Sept 2021. I believe any 870 before November 2021 will fail.

Should i buy one? I am planning to buy the 512 GB one manfactured in Vietnam 12/2022

I bought evo 870 500gb (2023 year of manufacturing). I want to clone windows to that ssd. Are those ssd-s still have problems?

Thanks for the video. You look pissed off dude. Tell me how the RMA doing you, any better?

I have 2 x 1TB of 870EVO and the drives are showing red blocks....I was under the assumption they automatically detected the bad blocks and assign another but mines are just failing and I already have a couple corrupted files. Chkdsk says it replaced the bad clusters but they still show up.

870 owner never had a issue but I also own the m.2 version

Would you recommend getting crucial mx500 instead of 870 evo ? It is actually much cheaper than the Samsung.

Please let me know which ssd should I buy samsung 870 evo sata 3 vs crucial mx500 1TB??

i have a samsung 870 evo 4tb dated 2021.01 which just failed; where do you write to send it back?

Bro for some reason my 970 evo plus id not reaching its full potential i did some more research and turns out there were some that are defective i tried updating the firmware and it says (this firmware has already been updated)

Add me to the list. I bought my 1TB 870 EVO in May of 2021. In the past two months the number of bad sectors suddenly soared to 48,468 all over the drive. The file damage included files that I had written to the drive two years ago and never touched. The total damage was 288 files, mostly temporary browser files fortunately. Oddly I had just replaced a conventional 2TB drive that had 68TB written to it over a period of eleven years before it began failing and it failed in a much less catastrophic manner. For comparison I've also been using a cheaper Samsung 500GB 840 EVO for nine years (it reports 129,521 hours which is impossible because that's 14 years). It's had 38.7 TB written to it and has exactly *zero* reallocated sectors. I'm going to keep my eye on the reallocated sectors and for any read failures during backups.

my 2TB Samsung EVO 2021.11 date and made in Korea. Failed last night. I'm screwed.

do not scare me sir i bought it 2 or 3 years ago it still works i even had system on it for a year before i got kingston fury nvme magician says it is 100% fine.. its 1 TB disk just like yours

I just bought samsung Evo 870 4TB manufactured date 2023 10 15 made in korea. Its very disheartening experienced to have this kind of ssd it suddenly hang and stop working after installing the OS i tried to reinstall many times even installing samsung magician but to no avail...😢😢😢😢

My 870 EVO 2TB is failing. It's running at 100% in Task Manager. It appears on Magician, but wont scan or show any relevant data. CrystalDiskInfo sees it but doesn't show as many datapoints as for the other drives.

Mine just stopped working after 2 years. I'm really pissed off, all of my data was there.

Their are No more.2 870 evo... 2.5 inch units only

Very bad for Samsung’s reputation!

Just bought one of these for steam storage

And i bought a 870 EVO 1 TB to replace dying HDD in my laptop.... don't do that, don't freak me out ! Production date december 2022

is there any follow up for this Video?

is newer 870 evo 4tb samsung fixed this issue?

any news on reliability?

Oh wow. So your failed 870 EVO was manufactured in 2022?? So even after Nov 2021 there are still defective drives. Mine was a Sep 2021 build and just failed after not even 2 years and 2TBW of use. I don’t think i’ll be buying Samsung again

My 3rd 870 Evo 1TB broke... lost 15 years of files. Dont buy this shit.

So 2022 and 2023 is safe?

My samsung 870 evo keep disappear from my pc and idk what should I do ? I tried everything and when I download/install a game, it disappear from file explorer disk management and even bios :(( What should I do ?

1 or 2 copys is NOT a storage solution

"Tried to get into afterlife and it wouldn't let me." I would pick up a bible

2tb here, got mine die yesterday. Not even 3 years of simple use. I cant even access the disk it just freezes everything. I dont even know what to do now