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SN700 red experience

undertaker2k8

undertaker2k8

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Have been running a WD SN700 Red 2TB as my primary boot drive for the past 3 years, swapped my 5090 fe for the pny and the drive is totally dead, thought may be the PCI-E to nvme adapter was loose coz it was next to the GPU but nope, took the drive out into a NVME to USB adapter and it's stone cold dead. Another NVME drive works fine in the PCI-E to NVME adapter. Tried installing windows from scratch on another NVME drive (installed directly on the mobo) and kept getting a windows install failed error at the end of the process every time (seems to be very common from reddit, ofc TPM is enabled in the BIOS, tried Pro/Pro N and different install media but no dice) so had to clone and resurrect an old boot partition from 2022 and now updating it...fun times..opened an RMA with WD for the SN700 but have to say am deeply disappointed by what is supposed to a very high endurance NAS drive.

Any one else experienced issues with this SSD? I don't think I caused any damage to the drive while installing the GPU, just an odd coincidence and drive was likely on the fritz anyhow.
 
Note to self: once the SN700 is back , going to use it to clone my primary drive monthly, got too complacent.
 
Reality is any drive can die at any time, doesn't matter if it is a premium drive or bottom of the bucket.

What is interesting is just changing GPU's killed it..

Do you not have any M.2 slots on your mobo?
 
MrGuvernment said:
Reality is any drive can die at any time, doesn't matter if it is a premium drive or bottom of the bucket.

What is interesting is just changing GPU's killed it..

Do you not have any M.2 slots on your mobo?
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Yeah 4, I think changing GPUs was just coincidence unless I got very unlucky, changed the GPU 4x during the past year no issues
 
On the bright side, the pny is cooler than the FE by a good 10-11c for me. Max it reached was 70 during BL4 all maxed out, the FE would reach 80-81 steady state.
 
ND40oz said:
It has a 5 year warranty, open up a support ticket with Sandisk/WD.
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Already done, drive is en route to them. Just disappointed is all, reminded me of the (not so fun) days of the sandforce drives (remember those and more importantly what BTC was trading at then...). I specifically had this as a boot drive due to the massive 5100 TBW endurance rating, the Hynix one I'm booting from now is a vanilla 3.0 x4 drive, 600 TBW.
 
I ran a SN700 RED as my boot drive for several years. No issues. Now running a 990Pro in my new rig.
 
undertaker2k8 said:
Already done, drive is en route to them. Just disappointed is all, reminded me of the (not so fun) days of the sandforce drives (remember those and more importantly what BTC was trading at then...). I specifically had this as a boot drive due to the massive 5100 TBW endurance rating, the Hynix one I'm booting from now is a vanilla 3.0 x4 drive, 600 TBW.
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Ran RAID 0 with a bunch of different OCZ drives back in the day, always fun reinstalling when they failed. Should have just stuck with the RAID 0 VelociRaptors I started down that path with, they'd probably still be running if I still had them.
 
bluestang said:
Note to self: Don't use a NAS drive as a primary OS drive and only use as a data drive.
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They are usually fine, the spinning rust NAS drives yes, as many of those were only 5200/5400 RPM to keep heat down, but NVMe drives tends to not matter, it is more marketing really as they are designed to run warmer really...from what I can tell.

Lessons in the end is make sure important data is somewhere else besides a single drive.
 
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Shit happens.
ND40oz said:
Ran RAID 0 with a bunch of different OCZ drives back in the day, always fun reinstalling when they failed. Should have just stuck with the RAID 0 VelociRaptors I started down that path with, they'd probably still be running if I still had them.
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Doubt it very much. Those Raptor drives screamed in raid but reliable they were not. I RMA several of my drives.
 
My first raptor drive died after 2 months, WD sent me a brand new one to replace it. Suprisingly the replacement was in use from 2008 until I retired it in 2019 when it started acting weird and disappearing and reappearing on the SATA bus.
 
Fwiw since I was getting the weird windows install error, the drive I used to clone a working boot drive off of was my trusty 840 pro 256 gb from 2012 (had a working win 11 install updated lsst in 2023) and still showing 92% drive health, cloned that onto a 1 TB timetec nvme drive, which isn't particularly fast (1700 mb/s r/w) but that barely matters for a boot drive, most nvme drives are within a second of each other. The 990/980/770 had too much useful stuff to wipe at a whim lol..
 
vegeta535 said:
Shit happens.

Doubt it very much. Those Raptor drives screamed in raid but reliable they were not. I RMA several of my drives.
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The 2.5" velociraptors were basically enterprise SAS drives with a sata interface, an early gen had firmware issues but otherwise they were darn reliable.
 
Yeah the only HDD I ever RMA'd was a 40GB whatever Raptor. Lovely drive though at the time. Next move was single platter 1TB SSHD short stroked to 200GB.

But thats another story.
 
Getting a somewhat weird issue where my h100i pro fans spin very loudly when starting and/or going to/waking from sleep for a few seconds and then quiet down/behave normally (of course they ramp up during BL4 lol), tried all the usual stuff including custom curves, device memory settings etc.
 
On a related note, looks like Samsung still hasn't nailed down the firmware for the 990 Pro, the 4TB still have failures *fingers crossed* since that's the drive I have most of my data on...6/13 drives are samsung (256 gb 840/50 pro, 512 gb 860 pro, 4 TB 870 QVO, 2 TB 980 Pro and 4 TB 990 Pro).
 
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