samasung 960 evo dead again?

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BOK-one

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I recently bought a samsung 960 evo 250GB m.2 drive and after a week of use i came back to my computer one day and it would not boot even into the bios with the drive in the computer, i came to the conclusion that the ssd was dead and i had just gotten a bad one. I returned it to the retailer and they replaced it. Now not even 3 days later the same thing happened again.

Is this just bad luck or is this product just crap? should i get this replaced again with the same samsung ssd or something else.
 
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Heat might accelerate a drive failure but it shouldn't kill a drive. Like pretty much all SSDs, the Samsung drives will throttle performance if it's getting too hot in order to try and get back to an acceptable operating temperature.

The worst thing I can think of for killing client SSDs is unexpected power loss, especially if it's during a write. Other than Crucial, no client SSDs have any sort of capacitors to protect the drive from data corruption.

That said, I find it pretty unlikely for someone to kill 2 drives with power loss events from normal use. I'm wondering if there's some other issue with the computer that is either causing this boot issue or killing drives.
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i have one of the new m.2 ssd and not had any issue after nearly 1 month of gaming and 3d rendering, i could only speculate that it might be down to heat make sure u don't have any programs that normal always read/write to hard drive like torrent programs. Maybe look at heat from graphic cards as the position of most m.2 are close or underneath this and maybe passive heat build up. hope this helps as they are brill bits of hardware.... :)
 
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Heat might accelerate a drive failure but it shouldn't kill a drive. Like pretty much all SSDs, the Samsung drives will throttle performance if it's getting too hot in order to try and get back to an acceptable operating temperature.

The worst thing I can think of for killing client SSDs is unexpected power loss, especially if it's during a write. Other than Crucial, no client SSDs have any sort of capacitors to protect the drive from data corruption.

That said, I find it pretty unlikely for someone to kill 2 drives with power loss events from normal use. I'm wondering if there's some other issue with the computer that is either causing this boot issue or killing drives.
 
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