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    Question Samsung 970 EVO died in laptop (heat problems?) - what substitute has good performance/heat ratio?

    Am I cursed or what? New laptop, new drive (Samsung 980 Pro). 3 months of operation - boom: I had trouble reading one file, checked SMART and saw 1B value in Media and Data Integrity Errors. Then backed up things and ended up with 87... A.
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    Question Samsung 970 EVO died in laptop (heat problems?) - what substitute has good performance/heat ratio?

    @nosurprises oh and actually did not say a thing. They just sent a replacement...
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    Question Samsung 970 EVO died in laptop (heat problems?) - what substitute has good performance/heat ratio?

    Sadly the drive is gone, so I can't even fetch the SMART anymore and I haven't stored the last dump. I believe it was somewhere between 25 - 50 % of the expected lifetime TBW from what I remember (although I don't remember the exact value now, I remember the life expectancy was around that)...
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    Question Samsung 970 EVO died in laptop (heat problems?) - what substitute has good performance/heat ratio?

    That is good idea. I'll monitor the temps throughout normal day and during higher (yet realistic) load
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    Question Samsung 970 EVO died in laptop (heat problems?) - what substitute has good performance/heat ratio?

    It is 5 years indeed, therefore mine is now being taken into warranty repair (I'm actually curious if I'll get new 970 Evo or something better or money back (as it was bought when the price was more then double of today's prices). SK Hynix looks great, perhaps 2TB comes soon (I don't need it...
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    Question Samsung 970 EVO died in laptop (heat problems?) - what substitute has good performance/heat ratio?

    Interesting tip, thank you. The bad thing is I can't find it in EU. Strange....
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    Question Samsung 970 EVO died in laptop (heat problems?) - what substitute has good performance/heat ratio?

    Yes, they perform well and I would have no objection (performance wise) to continue with them. But I think they run rather hot under load. I wonder is there anything, what runs less hot, but still performs quite well? The laptop under my consideration is ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4 / ThinkPad P15...
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    Question Samsung 970 EVO died in laptop (heat problems?) - what substitute has good performance/heat ratio?

    Hi, apparently my Samsung 970 EVO 2TB NVMe SSD dies after 3 years of service in ThinkPad T580. At about 1-2 years of age there were suddenly few media errors (visible in SMART), few files unreadable, yet surface check showed zero bad sectors (due to remapping)? And then after 3 years, it died...
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    Recommended free space on SSD

    Hi and thanks to all for your valuable feedback. It is Intel® SSD 320 Series, Capacity 600 GB; TRIM will be used. Thanks for the your tips about the free space. The usage of the disk will be like average power user + photographer (pictures in, process, pictures out). The important...
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    Recommended free space on SSD

    Hello local Gurus, I'm finally jumping the ship and preparing myself for SSD (Intel SSD 320 600GB, Thinkpad with quad core i7, Win7 x64). Does the amount of free space influence the performance of SSD? (I assume yes) How much free space is recommended? And what amount is critical and should...