Fuck that drive. It came this morning and after twelve hours I’m sending it back. I’ll wait for an am5 system in 2022.
I’d get to desktop, got the drivers and everything installed then went to launch steam and froze. Rebooted then would freeze on the desktop with the spinning mouse circle.
Then it would default my bios and say a setting in the bios was wrong, looked couldn’t see anything at all, updated my bios. Ran Samsung magician, no errors and latest firmware. Changed power cables, new Sata cables and tried different Sata ports etc.
I did three complete formats and reinstalls and I even tried to open the browser before installing anything and it would freeze. Then I tried it in a new PC I got for my girlfriend a few months ago and had the same problem.
So it’s a bad drive more then likely, I’m done. It’s going back.
Wow... I've never seen behavior like that from an SSD and I've worked on them for years. My condolences. How did you transfer your data to the drive? Or did you start from scratch? I'm sure it's under warranty, so you have that much to your credit.
I’ve been building computers for 20 years and haven’t had this much problems with replacing a part or a build ever.
Didn’t format the first time, did the second and third. I did a fresh windows install 3 times then did cloning with the Samsung program and had the same problem.
Even after updating the bios.
Luckily I got it from amazon so I have 30 days but they’ve extended to January 31st for Christmas. It will be going back Monday though.
My first ssd install, my girlfriends came with one. I even watched videos to see if I was doing something wrong and everyone else was doing exactly what I was and it just worked. After 12 hours I had enough and gave up.
Sounds like lousy luck. I have yet to experience issues.
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