![]() With having three (3) of the Samsung (2TB) 990 Pro’s sitting on my EVGA KP Z690 motherboard since November 2022, my Samsung software today maintains to show absolute no issues or what is called reports of lifespan and service life. Samsung would certainly not be alone in having SSD issues as some companies have had significant reliability issues since SSDs were introduced. TechieTwo said:I have been using Samsung SSDs for years and IME I've never had an issue. Therefore, this health degradation issue with the Samsung 990 Pro certainly merits an investigation on Samsung's part. It's not the first time that S.M.A.R.T parameters have given us a head up of potential failing drives. Unfortunately, this gave rise to the "0E" fiasco, where users likely have a faulty drive if the entry isn't zero. With the previous fiasco, users could check if the drive was affected by monitoring two specific S.M.A.R.T values. We saw a few reports outside China, but the problem wasn't widespread. Other reportedly faulty drives include the Samsung 970 Evo Plus and the OEM drives, like the PM9A1 and PM981A. It was big news in China that many Samsung 980 Pro owners had reported SSD failures from six months to a year of usage due to bad blocks. Alternatively, specific batches of drives may just be defective. So it's plausible that Microsoft Windows may not be playing nice with the Samsung 990 Pro. The only common ground is that the affected SSDs are drives for storing the operating system. There are not many clues to go on for the moment. Oddly, Samsung Magician's short or extended SMART self-test would not run on the Samsung 990 Pro. Nonetheless, we can't discard the possibility of it being a firmware or reporting bug. Moreover, users have confirmed different software, such as Samsung Magician, CrystalDiskInfo, and Hard Disk Sentinel, are reporting the same value. ![]() However, the SSD software obviously grabs the data from the S.M.A.R.T health parameters, so the information should be solid. In the meantime, it's uncertain if there's an actual hardware issue with the Samsung 990 Pro that causes rapid health degradation or whether the reported health values are an error on the software side. ![]()
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