Dead Sandisk SSD

[Andy T]

I had a SanDisk SASDSSDA480G 480GB SSD PLUS SATA III that was purchased in May 2016 die a few days ago. The drive just stopped being visible in explorer and I also couldn't see it in BIOS. Apparently I am not the only one to have Sandisk die. How often can this happen? Do other brands suffer from this as well?

Thanks!

 

[Brado78]

I bought my mother an Adata su800 for her comp and it died in just over a year. stay away from adata su800's i have a sandisk Ultra II for two years in my laptop and it is still going strong. My advise is to do a lot of research before buying an SSD

 

[mxnerd]

I had a Sandisk SSD installed on a lightly used PC (only turned on a few times a week for web browsing) and died in about 3 years.

Would not buy another Sandisk SSD.

 

[Justinbaileyman]

Odd... I have a Sandisk Ultra 240gb SSD and have been using it for 7 plus years with no issues knock on wood.
Its been running nonstop 24/7 writing and reading for video editing and encoding.
Then those files were transferred to the main server drive and the file left on the SSD is deleted over and over and over again.
Not sure how many writes and rewrites are standard but this has been a great SSD with my experiences.

 

[UsandThem]

Outside of their 'Extreme Pro' drives, their mainstream offerings were very much budget drives in the past.

However, since WD bought them, and released their 3D NAND drives (WD Blue 3D and Sandisk Ultra 3D are essentially the same drives), I wouldn't have any concerns buying one of those at the right price.

The problem they face with those two drives are: 1. The Crucial MX500 regularly selling for less. 2. The Samsung 860 EVO selling for just a little bit more.

It's a tough market sandwiched in between those two drives. However, the WD Black 3D NVMe drive is a really nice drive for the money, and is usually quite a bit cheaper than the 970 EVO.

 

[esquared]

I had a 960 GB Sandisk Ultra ll just die on me. It was within warranty and they just replaced with an 1 TB Ultra 3D.

Not a great indicator, but Amazon reviews seem for rate most SSD brands at 4.5 stars or above.
https://www.amazon.com/s?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=ssd

I did look at the Ultra ll and they seemed to have more one star reviews than, the newest 3D Ultra. (4%)
https://www.amazon.com/s?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=sandisk+1+tb

The 960 GB Ultra ll I had has 13% one star
The 1 tb Ultra ll has 9% one star
The 480GB Ultra ll has 11% one star
The 240 BG Ultra ll has 7% one star

Maybe its possible that this line had issues. A look at the first link shows the lesser brands, SiliconPower,
Inland and even Adata with even higher 1 start reviews.

I am not sure of any predictor for failure, except maybe don't get the cheapest SSDs?
Samsung seems to generally have the least amount of 1 star reviews. They also cost more.

Stuff happens, and things break. Now if this replacement dies within a couple years then yes, I may rethink sansidk
but not based on one bad drive.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I've had a few Silicon Power drives act up and die, and one "Radeon R3" SSD puked on my test system (TLC drive). Had a friend with a used OCZ 240GB Vertex2 or something like that, that I gave him for free as his OS drive, and it died during a storm / power glitch. Unfortunately, he had some CC in a wallet on that drive, and hadn't backed everything up. (Had a 1TB spinner in that box too.)

 

[Shmee]

I remember the X400 used to sell pretty well, but it has been phased out by now. Never heard of those having any trouble.

 

[PliotronX]

100% failure rate like this on Hectron (now named Drevo) X1 drives. I would prefer a DOA drive like the Inland Professional I pulled out of the box two weeks back. I've got a SanDisk X300 in my old mans desktop and an X400 serving as the SSD caching in a tiered storage space at work, zero problems with those guys.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I had a SanDisk SASDSSDA480G 480GB SSD PLUS SATA III that was purchased in May 2016 die a few days ago. The drive just stopped being visible in explorer and I also couldn't see it in BIOS. Apparently I am not the only one to have Sandisk die. How often can this happen? Do other brands suffer from this as well?

Thanks!

It can happen to any brand and it happens all the time.

Back your stuff up, and don't buy anything you can't afford to replace.

 

[Ranulf]

I had a SanDisk SASDSSDA480G 480GB SSD PLUS SATA III that was purchased in May 2016 die a few days ago. The drive just stopped being visible in explorer and I also couldn't see it in BIOS. Apparently I am not the only one to have Sandisk die. How often can this happen? Do other brands suffer from this as well?

Thanks!

I had the same model do the same thing back in April. It took about 3 weeks (from time of submitting rma request) via San Disk for the replacement to arrive. If I remember right, they wanted the purchase receipt and photos of both sides of the drive.

 

[nerp]

Hmm. I had an Ultra II die on my after about a month back in 2016. The replacement they sent me has been working perfectly ever since.

 

[hojnikb]

100% failure rate like this on Hectron (now named Drevo) X1 drives. I would prefer a DOA drive like the Inland Professional I pulled out of the box two weeks back. I've got a SanDisk X300 in my old mans desktop and an X400 serving as the SSD caching in a tiered storage space at work, zero problems with those guys.

I'm still rocking X1 64GB and it works flawlessly since day one

 

[PliotronX]

I'm still rocking X1 64GB and it works flawlessly since day one

Good for you man, out of my sampling of three dead drives and a warranty that would not be honored, not ever going for a fourth myself but more power to you..

 

[techmanc]

Well where I only use ssd as my Windows drive and I back it up daily with Acronis True Image 2018.

 

[bigboxes]

I have been using the Extreme Pro 480 for well over 3.5 years now of continuous service. It's got a 10 year warranty. I have an 840, 850 EVO (x2) and a 960 Pro. I believe I had to RMA one of the 850 EVOs as it crapped out within the build period. It's replacement has been running flawless for the last 2.5 years. But I also do regular backups to spinners that sit idle and to my home server that is on 24/7.

 

[Cerb]

I've seen Samsung, Hynix, Crucial, and Sandisk go bad. None of my personal ones have gone bad, but I did have one no-name for my Chromebook that was just buggy (it would work fine for a few months, corrupt, be fine after re-partitioning, then repeat after a few more months...). It's rare for any current day SSD to die within its service life, and it's definitely rarer than HDDs in general, but *^%# happens. I've seen more Sandisks than any other, but an important thing to take into account there is that Sandisk and Samsung account for a vast majority of SSDs that I or my work have bought and installed, so I don't think it's fair to bash them over a couple going bad, instead of just one of another brand.

 

[techmanc]

1 thing I found interesting is the smaller ssd fail more than the big ones which is better for me as I been trying to use no smaller than 500gb ssd drives!