SSD failure twice in the past month.

[ell9471]

wondering if anyone can help. have a tower built by pc specialist from may 23. about 3 weeks ago my SSD failed and I lost everything (lol). luckily have premium warranty, so they gave me a replacement drive and I loaded a new version of windows onto it and started from scratch. a week later and it failed again. pc went into bios like last time and said 'no bootable device found'. pcspecialist staff told me it was likely the motherboard and wanted the whole pc back to check everything and replace what's needed. rang up to schedule delivery and a different person said they think it's just dodgy drives (their own brand though) and not the motherboard. so they are now instead sending me another replacement drive, again a better one. apparently third time lucky?

I really don't have the time for it to fail again as I use the pc every day for uni work and I'm going back to uni very soon.

I'm not techy at all but I don't have much faith that Ive been that unlucky with drives and that's the only issue. everything else works fine like graphics etc. boot up is fine, besides the fact it has completely crashed from two different SSD now.

Need help\suggestions as to what might be wrong or if it really could just be bad drives and fine this time. putting pc specs below as well as the original drive, replacement and now second replacement I'm getting. thanks!

first drive - 512GB PCS PCle M.2 SSD (3300 MB/R, 2200 MB/W)

second drive - 512GB PCS PCle M.2 SSD (2200 MB/R, 1500 MB/W)

third drive - 512GB PCS PCIe M.2 SSD (3500 MB/R, 3100 MB/W)

PC SPECS Processor (CPU) Intel® CoreTM i5 Six Core Processor i5- 12400F (2.5GHZ) 18MB Cache Motherboard GIGABYTE B660 DS3H DDR4 (rev. 1.0): LGA1700, DDR4, USB 3.2 Memory (RAM) 16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHZ (2 x 8GB) Graphics Card 8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3050 - HDMI, DP, LHR M.2 SSD Drive 512GB PCS PCle M.2 SSD (3300 MB/R, 2200 MB/W) Partial changes were made on amendment [2870852] to: 512GB PCS PCle M.2 SSD (3500 MB/R, 3100 MB/W) Storage Drive 1TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-I||3.5" HDD, 6GB/S, 7200RPM, 64MB CACHE Power Supply CORSAIR 450W CV SERIESTM CV-450 POWER SUPPLY

 

[sck451]

Honestly I'd want a better drive than that, given your failures. Personally, given the trouble you've been put to, I'd be inclined to ask for a better quality drive, one of the Solidigm ones, perhaps.

One other thing I'd say: it's a bit late now, but that system is really not terribly well configured and will be tricky to upgrade in any useful way, which will limit its lifespan. As and when you want to replace it, do come to this forum and ask advice!

 

[Scott]

I would definitely look to a branded drive also. You don't want anything important in an unknown. I would only have the unbranded drives for non-critical storage.

 

[ell9471]

Honestly I'd want a better drive than that, given your failures. Personally, given the trouble you've been put to, I'd be inclined to ask for a better quality drive, one of the Solidigm ones, perhaps.

One other thing I'd say: it's a bit late now, but that system is really not terribly well configured and will be tricky to upgrade in any useful way, which will limit its lifespan. As and when you want to replace it, do come to this forum and ask advice!

Thank you! I have 3 years warranty parts and labour with them, would that allow me to get a better replacement pc overall if it does pack in?

also I don't need anything really advanced, as besides a few heavy games occasionally I use it for university work and streaming but that's it. just not really sure the best way forward, besides to wait and see if this next replacement drive fails.

 

[SpyderTracks]

Thank you! I have 3 years warranty parts and labour with them, would that allow me to get a better replacement pc overall if it does pack in?

No, because it's working as designed, it's just poorly designed, just have to learn from a bad experience. Always get advice if you don't understand hardware, PC design is a rather specialised art, you can't just throw any components together without quite major problems in performance and / or longevity arising.

 

[ell9471]

No, because it's working as designed, it's just poorly designed, just have to learn from a bad experience. Always get advice if you don't understand hardware, PC design is a rather specialised art, you can't just throw any components together without quite major problems in performance and / or longevity arising.

Yeah, that's why I got a pre built one from pcspecialist, so that I wouldn't be guessing what components would work well together. Hopefully this second replacement SSD will work, as they've said it's a newer version. if not I'll ask for a branded one or get them to check the whole pc for issues.

 

[Ekans2011]

Yeah, that's why I got a pre built one from pcspecialist, so that I wouldn't be guessing what components would work well together. Hopefully this second replacement SSD will work, as they've said it's a newer version. if not I'll ask for a branded one or get them to check the whole pc for issues.

Unfortunately, pre-built PCs are never designed in the ideal way; they have compatible components, of course, but they are frequently of poor quality, warehouse leftovers, or lack upgrade margins.