Intel 750 NVMe SSD Failure

[Grooveriding]

Curious if anyone else with one of these drives has experienced a failure ? I've checked all the forums and searched everywhere and can't find even one report of a dead drive.

Mine up and died on me in an odd way yesterday. I was playing with some overclocking and doing stability testing at different CPU clocks / voltages. I was testing stability with Asus' Real Bench. After upping the CPU to 4.8ghz and raising voltage after another reboot, I ran Realbench and my system hung after a couple minutes of it running. No big deal, not stable I figured and hard reset the machine with the reset button.

My computer came back online and I got a windows boot error. Reset again and after that the SSD was no longer recognized in BIOS. I've tried it in my other computers and it wasn't seen in any of them. The red LED always wound up as solid after any system I tried it in finished booting and the drive was not recognized.

Anyways Intel has great support. They are overnighting me a replacement. I just can't get how it just up and died on me like that.

 

[Johnny Lucky]

Any chance the Intel 750 was running hot during testing? According to Intel the 750 requires adequate airflow to keep it from overheating during heavy workloads.

The new Samsung 950 Pro also requires adequate airflow. If the temperature of the Samsung UBX controller reaches 82C during a heavy workload, then throttling will reduce performance to help bring the controller temperature back down.

Another possibility just came to me. Any chance testing filled the 750 to capacity?

Glad to hear that dealing with Intel support was a good experience.

 

[Redstorm]

You probably accidentally overclocked the PCIe bus when you changed a ratio and pushed the 750 too hard. They are susceptible to pcie overclocks.

 

[Grooveriding]

As far as airflow I'm pretty confident the drive was being kept quite cool. I have a bunch of fans in my case and good airflow. I don't monitor the drive's temp though, so I can't say for certain.

I thought the same about PCIE bus speed, but I have everything set to a static 100 in BIOS, I may have missed something though. That seems the most plausible possibility actually.

It was surprising to see not a single reported failure from anyone across the web that I could find... I figured these drives were going to be quite reliable, but no anecdotes anywhere was still surprising. I checked and double-checked everything I could think of in various systems, felt sure it was some sort of PEBKAC. I'll know for certain when I get the replacement.

I had bitlocker enabled on the drive, but can't see how the encryption could have caused an issue. I could see the drive not being able to boot after a crash because of data corruption, but not being outright dead due to hardware failure.