I bought 5 of these less than two years ago, though they were the 500 GB model. Every single one of them has failed - some within 45 days and just outside the return period. The last one, which I honestly forgot was still running and thought I’d replaced, failed this morning.

These SSDs are absolute garbage and their warranty replacements are a joke (read: you’re outta luck, Chuck). Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me 6 times, well, shame one me for buying them again, I guess. lol. I had one fail prior to this batch, but assumed it was an oddball.

Pro tip: Never buy Silicon Power (SP) SSDs. I you have any in use, make sure you have backups running daily and that you check those backups every so often.

Seems like the 3v3 regulator is what goes out on these, but I’m not going to bother trying to repair it since I’ve got backups.

  • WaterWaiver@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Holy shit it’s not just me! Two Silicon Power P34A80’s died within months of use, the second one was the warranty replacement of the first.

    https://halestrom.net/darksleep/blog/054_nvme/

    In both cases: a bunch of sectors suddenly became permanently unreadable.

    All my machines use WD nvme/sata, with a laptop running ADATA nvme. The only ssd I’ve had fail was at the very very bleeding edge of ssd availability (“sale” of ~$100 for 30GB) with a Kingston drive, unknown flash mfg. Oldest (other than the Kingston) is when I installed (family member’s box) a Samsung sata drive (830? 840?) that’s been a trooper for the last… 11 years? No issues otherwise.