Question WD BLACK NVME drive issue

[Fanatical Meat]

I picked up a 1TB WD black drive around the beginning of the year and it’s been great until Monday.
I continually get a boot to UFEI/bios. I have remounted the drive and all seemed fine for one restart and I’m back to booting to UFEI/bios again. I am certain the drive is secured and connected properly. I’ll remount it again to ensure it is.
Is this a sign of drive failure or something else?

 

[Saylick]

Do you have the SN850 or the SN850x? I presume an OS is installed on the SSD, but the BIOS doesn't detect the SSD and thus boots into the BIOS?

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Do you have the SN850 or the SN850x? I presume an OS is installed on the SSD, but the BIOS doesn't detect the SSD and thus boots into the BIOS?

I think it’s the SN750 but sort of forgot. Definitely the PCIE 3.0 version.
Yes it appears the motherboard doesn’t find it however I forgot the option but I am presented at exit boot from *whatever* and it works.
Boot order is this drive first
Fast boot is off and has been off

 

[Saylick]

I think it’s the SN750 but sort of forgot. Definitely the PCIE 3.0 version.
Yes it appears the motherboard doesn’t find it however I forgot the option but I am presented at exit boot from *whatever* and it works.
Boot order is this drive first
Fast boot is off and has been off

Wait, so it works now?

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Wait, so it works now?

It does but I always drop to bios and have to select something. I’ll check later tonight.
Whole problem is kind of weird. I do have a windows (10) update that keeps failing to install. I am thinking about just reloading windows and starting fresh.

 

[Tech Junky]

Boot into windows and download the WD app and check the firmware for an update. If it's not already configured for gpt change that and then convert to UEFI. Reboot and change it in the BIOS screen and you should be fine. If not then go for the fresh install and it will install as UEFI automatically.

 

[igor_kavinski]

I don't like both Samsung and WD ever since they reduced the endurance ratings for their NVMe drives but I tend to lean more towards Samsung 980 Pro. I just saw that my local Amazon is selling SN850X 2TB almost $40 cheaper than SN850. I smell reliability issues and they are trying to clear stock ASAP in the hopes that most users will be able to run the drive throughout the warranty period. They really don't care if the drive dies outside of warranty. They just want your money. WD has fallen.

 

[bonehead123]

I don't like both Samsung and WD ever since they reduced the endurance ratings for their NVMe drives but I tend to lean more towards Samsung 980 Pro. I just saw that my local Amazon is selling SN850X 2TB almost $40 cheaper than SN850. I smell reliability issues and they are trying to clear stock ASAP in the hopes that most users will be able to run the drive throughout the warranty period. They really don't care if the drive dies outside of warranty. They just want your money. WD has fallen.

Well, I've built 100+ rigs for clients using several of the Sammy 980's, & WD 850's & 750's...neveranottaproblemo....so I can't say that I really agree with this generalization, but I also know everyone's machines are a little different here & there, so the possibility of a variety of issues can crop up from time to time.

As already stated above, I would start with the firmware check/update, then move to a fresh install if that doesn't fix the issue

 

[Tech Junky]

@Fanatical Meat @bonehead123

I've seen a couple of 850X posts lately but, not the 850/750 having any issues. I picked up a couple of 770's though to play with due to their higher throughput on TB. They're a bit of an oddball since they don't have DRAM but perform better than an 850 in the TB4 enclosure. I also put one in my laptop for testing and while they don't do a bulk transfer in a single stream all that impressively they do pretty well when you multistream the copy. If the 770's were available when the 850's were needed it would have been a quandary picking between them. for about 30% les in price the 770 is a pretty decent option. It's also Gen4 which makes it compelling even in a Gen3 system. I was able to pick them up for $80/ea on Amazon from their "used" option and they both tested out fine with low power / hour use.

WD do tend to run a little warmer than other drives I've played with over the years. In comparison I had some Phison based drives that typically sat lower in the 28-32C range when not doing transfers. It must be something with the way WD implemented the controller that keeps them warmer.

https://wddashboarddownloads.wdc.com/wdDashboard/DashboardSetup.exe

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Drive health is 100% and firmware is current per the WD control panel.
I am going to update my bios to the newest version and if it continues I’ll manually update windows. I’ve been having trouble with a windows update failing.
Pretty irritating problem.

 

[Tech Junky]

windows update

And I block windows updates and manually pick and choose them because they're a pita usually.

 

[Charlie98]

I've been running a SN750 for about 2 years, it's been a very solid drive so far. I will say that I've had issues since the last Windows Update... not necessarily with the drive itself (it boots and runs fine,) but the system has started to hang, and I'm having issues with slow file transfers and such. It's a pain in the rear.... so much so, that I'm debating reloading the OS, or just moving back to Intel (I'm not really happy with my Ryzen chip.)