Samsung 870 Evo Dies, Major Issue 2TB & 4TB To Be Aware Of, Be Careful People!! 

I've been running several Samsung 860 and 870 EVO in different systems for years and all have been rock solid. It's possible that there was a bad batch, but overall these drives are the best you can get for the price. Look up the reviews for other brands of SSD, there are horror stories with all of them, with much higher failure rates than the Samsung products.

I'm in the same situation now but for the 8TB 870 QVO that I bought in July 2021 and the manufacturing date says 2021/05. Used it as a game drive and I believe almost 11GB of writes was done. I also came across random crashes and by end of last November, the drive is not detected anymore. I tried on other systems, tried with SATA to USB, and also checked bios. It's completely dead and the warranty is also over. The weird thing is Samsung Magician never reported errors. I decided don't want to spend on 8TB drives and just go for a 4TB Samsung 870 EVO instead until I saw this video.

Had this happen in the morning. PC didn't seem to start at all and was just stuck loading for ages in motherboard boot screen. Spent whole damn day trying figure out what had gone from PC, went first for more obvious faults like Ram, main drive (nvme ssd), possibly corrupted bios etc, but each one was fine. Then just left my pc on that loading screen for quite while (went to cook food) and when came back it was finally open and managed to figure out that my storage drive aka this piece of junk had broken also it still had near frozen my pc even in windows. Didn't go out suddenly though, like you said I also had weird unexplainable crashes for while now and other minor stuff, but never figured out what was the cause, though part of is that I was always looking in to ram, GPU and my main SSD instead of storage one. Which I almost never used for anything except storing some random stuff. Happy that it wasn't anything major in the end and didn't lose anything important that hadn't backed up in external HDD ages ago, but still gave me solid headache for hours.

Exactly the same issue with my Samsung EVO 870 2TB MF date 07/2021. Purchased Nov 2021, fine for 12 months, 1.1TB stored on the drive. Started to get some files unable to be read or copied last month,, random crashes in games stored on the drive.. Did not think anything of it as the drive is only around 12 months old. Yesterday, while playing a game, it exited the game to the desktop. Figured it was likely the game, just a random glitch? Proceeded to reboot Windows 10. Got the Windows logo and the usual dots spinning forever and would not boot. Looked in the BIOS, shock...the drive was no longer detected! tried a few times, stil no joy. Eventually I opened up the PC and removed the drive. Attached it to a USB 3.0 adapter and connected the drive to another PC. Same deal, lost partition, drive letter shows but unable to access the drive. Windows asks "Drive not formatted. Do you want to format now? Currently running data recovery software that can recover from lost partitions, luckily the data is almost all still there. Its been running 24 hours now, approx 500GB recovered so far. RMAing the drive. Pretty disappointed as I actually have a Samsung 850 Pro 512GB that has 65000 power on hours, 9 years old without any errors in SMART whatsoever with 39TB of data written total. This drive was nowhere close to that! Defo a problem with a number of these EVO 870s mostly from 2021. Firmware or controller issues possibly from certain batches?

My 870 EVO just died today. Bought it in 2021 so I guess I now know why. Although mine was just flat out banished from existence. It wouldn't show up at all in BIOS and having the thing plugged in wouldn't let Windows boot from my actual boot drive, which was a completely separate NVMe. Wild.

It's not just the 2-4TB drives. My 1TB is currently failing and needs an RMA. And it has a 2021.02 build date. Luckily it has a long warranty but still. I've lost some footage and that wasn't cool at all. 5.2TB written too. My 860 Pro? 33.8TB and going strong still! Wish I bought another PRO drive TBH. But they go for WAY too much money sadly.

I've just sent mine back to amazon, made in 2020 sold march 21 It died after a power shut down tried formatting it but I kept getting an I/O device error? and the format was recognised as raw not ntfs, If anyone is trying to recover data from one you might be able to read it on a linux computer . . . . One of my old laptops with ubuntu could read the drive and show all the files but wouldn't format it.

Can we get a follow-up? I'm curious if the new batches still have this problem as I need a new 2TB SSD.

If I bought one of these Samsung solid state drive in 2024 will I have these issues? Got a nice rig and I wanted to add some solid state drives to my pc in the built in bay. So i put 2x2TB of them in the mounting bay. Says it comes with a 5 year warranty.

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.

My EVO 870 2TB manufacture date 01-23, bought in 06-23, failed after 6 months. Not written a lot, mainly reading.

Thanks for the heads up! Unfortunately, I got a bad 2TB batch! Purchased in 1/21 from Best Buy for $265, had about 15gbs of music on it as a backup. And now it doesn't even up in Windows Explorer, or Samsung Magician! Now it's just a doorstop! 😡

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 reassembly of the RAID array - and used up 48% of its vitality. At the same time, he recorded only 1.9tb. Complete shit. And yes, I bought 4 disks and everything is in critical condition.

Today my samsung 870 2TB failed after power outage. Ffs! I bought it in January 2022 and this is right after warranty ended… I have also Samsung SSD from 2015 120 GB and this still goes great. I lost all my valuable data… 😡

I have issues with the 500GB version of the Samsung EVO 870 and the weird thing is that Samsung Magician doesn't report any errors, but the SSD is corrupted. I strongly recommend everyone to avoid this model like plague. It's cheap for a reason. On the other hand, I have never had any problem with the PRO series (I have a 840 PRO 256GB that lasted 10 years and I just replaced it because I was running out of space but it was still working perfectly). These EVO Samsung SSDs are not reliable.

2023 batches are still plugged by this malfunction. My evo finally died on me today. I’m just gonna stick to my m.2 and HDD.

My 4Tb just died. Purchased may 2023

Hello Dude, How is the April 2022 version treating you! Are you good on the blue blocks? Because I am about to purchase 2023 batch.

I have this exact drive as my C drive, and it has started to fail already, tried copying a bunch of stuff into an external drive and my computer blue screened Managed to get most of my data onto another drive, so it's not too bad now, but Samsung is absolutely useless, won't RMA it because it's outside the 2y warranty even though it's obviously defective

2 years ago I had an 870 evo 4tb fail. Was refunded within a week when the store declared it dead. Now I'm looking for an SSD to replace my last mechanical drive that started clicking (14 year old drive - did well 🥲). Not sure if Samsung fixed this though?

Any follow up to this video?

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Hi, Samsung 870 QVO 4TB, I copied 100+ GB data and after the said amount of data, I couldn't copy more huge files, while copying, the disk would randomly disconnects. Where can I find this samsung magician?

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...

bought 2 pcs 2TB from Lazada and just by copying a 400GB of data i notice it slowing down until it dies (disconnected). when formating it will take years maybe to finish it.

870 EVO SATA 2.5" SSD 500GB (S5Y1NJ1R113443M MZ-77E500) 2021.01 died after ~1 year soft usage. (steam games)

Damn I'm using a 4tb 860 and 878 4tb for my photo archives:-( I'll have to get a seagate or wd 4tb sata drive for backup.

My 1TB with Feb 21 just died….

Hm, i was not aware of this issue. I'm currently using a 1tb nvme drive as my boot drive (almost maxed it out) and a 4tb external hard drive as backup/steam library (at least for games that can run on a mech drive), but i'm now looking at a 4tb ssd, unfortunately, amazon don't really tell you _when_ a drive was made, so i'll just have to hope any i get were made in 2022 at least.

seems from some pro IT forums where most people are aware of samsung ssd`s as majority, they just installed firmware right from the start and have no issues none or anywhere on google cannt find anyone having problems no more since the newer firmware, however we cannt be sure yet due to date beeing 2022 november up to present just half a year like , and if many people didnt use alot tera writes to kill it , but all seem fine so far since so i presume it was the firmware killing it, wich can happen in alot diferent hardware nowdays, that a firmware damages diferent harrdwares, i ordered two 870 evo and il isntall firmware and i feel certein will be fine , if all of u did the same too as soon as the firmware that fixed the issue was out, i reckon ud all had ur ssd`s undamaged any farther after the update, sry for my crap english

Are there any issues with the 2023 drives ? Just brought one production date of May 19 2023 worried if I should open it.

Literally had the same Problem like a Week ago, even bought new NVME SSD cuz I did not think it was this SATA but my PC just completely stopped working and I guess my Data is now also dead. :(

same my 870 evo HD, broken after 2 years and 2 months.....NEVER MORE samsung

My 870 is listed on Magician, but the program can't scan it or see the temps (all N/A).

For anyone else dealing with this problem in 2023 / 24, first try to change your cables, starting with your SATA Cable. I had this issue and turns out I was using a sata cable from an old build that was NOT a SATA3 6Gb/s cable. When I did my new build that is the ONLY cable that I brought over from the old PC as my new Motherboard and Power Supply came with SATA cables that were designed specifically for SATA3 6Gb/s. Also update your drive firmware via Sata Magician and reboot. If these two changes don't fix your problem, buy a better rated drive and get Geek Squad or a local company that is certified to do data recovery to go ahead and duplicate the data while the SSD is somewhat operable. Good Luck!

From your title, does that mean the 500GB version should be fine? Because that's the one I'm thinking of getting to upgrade my PC OS from HDD to SSD

I bought twelve Samsung 860 EVO 500 GB and 1 TB in 2020. All of them work perfect three years later, not one single issue with them. The best SSD's you can get.

I've just bought a 2TB, build date 20 Feb 2023 - are these suspect as well?

500GB 870 evo 2022 04 manufacturing date no issues yet. 1TB 870 evo 2021 05 manufacturing date no issues yet (i upgrade firmware a week ago) I hope everything fine like my old 860 850 and 840.

I want to buy 500gb ssd.. Still confuse samsung evo 870 or crucial mx500.. Should i use crucial? Your suggestion please..

Should I buy an 860 or an 870? I'm looking for the one that will last longer. Or do I still run the same risks with the 860 since they are from a new batch and are not comparable to the ones that were made 3 years ago.

need to upgrade firmware when you buy these drives. Most people simply install and never do anything, failure occurs. Also, most people running these drives on windows 11, not a good idea, best to run linux distro for longevity of m.2 and 2.5 drives .

I've got 970 evo plus that is causing crashes. Mine is used just got storage of games.

I just bought samsung evo 860 last JAN 17, 2023 now it died, cant even detect at my pc tried my old hdd and it work perfectly in my current pc guess this SSD died

I dont have the box anymore. Expiriencing some bad blocks with my SAMSUNG 870 EVO 4TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD. How can i tell manufacture date of the drive. I think its Oct-2021 from researching but is there a clear way to tell?

870 EVO 4T Sata 2.5 died a few weeks ago. Same issues, wont be recognized by Samsung Magician. Computer takes 10 minutes to boot trying to fix it everytime. Guess i should just take it out of the system.

I was trying to get this sdd but now I am not sure if I should get the PNY cs900

I just ordered a 500GB one from Amazon, with it being 500GB and being new I should be okay?

My 4TB just failed

Is the new one has the same problem?

Just get wd 3D nand (previous gen) or the sandisk ultra3d 4tb wise. Mx500 is pretty bad nowadays and 4tb has a high chance of being QLC based unfortunately.

are these safe to buy now?

so what should i do? i had a kingston a400 and it came with erros, now, people told me that the best option would be a samsung ssd, and now i see this video saying they have errors and dies .-. should i buy a crucial mx500 then? .-.

Think about all the people that laugh at people whom buy Western Digital blue.😂

sorry but about your data your fault entirely and deserved it... whether the disk has issue or not it WILL fail it is bound to whether in 2 years or 20 but it will so backup backup backup