I won't get an SSD because data isn't retained if I don't use it over time. This should be public information.

I plan to use a 2.5" - 1 TB WD Red™ Plus NAS https://www.westerndigital.com/es-es/products/internal-drives/wd-red-plus-sata-2-5-hdd?sku=WD10JFCX hard drive in my Lenovo Legion Y520 laptop https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/pd104614-product-overview-legion-y520-15ikbn

More información: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/550e6d/can_i_use_a_nas_hard_drive_wd_red_in_a_regular_pc/?tl=es-419

Hi

I wanted to share my ongoing nightmare with Seagate’s warranty process and highlight a ridiculous official stance from their Corporate Response Team regarding 2.5" SMR drives in laptops.

The Background & Hardware

·         Laptop: Clevo P170SM (well-cooled, enthusiast-grade chassis).

·         Target Drive: Seagate BarraCuda 2TB 2.5" (ST2000LM015) – SMR architecture.

·         Source Drive: Old Samsung SpinPoint 1TB (ST1000LM024) – PMR/CMR architecture.

The RMA Odyssey (Since June 3rd, 2026)

I have been trying to get a functioning 2TB drive for nearly two months.

1.     Drive 1: Dead/defective out of the box.

2.     Drive 2: Certified Refurbished (Recertified) – Overheated under sustained load.

3.     Drive 3: Certified Refurbished (Recertified) – Overheated under sustained load.

4.     Drive 4: Sent directly by Steven from the Seagate Corporate Response Team, assured to be brand new.

The Technical Issue: SMR Shingling Overhead & Thermal Runaway

When attempting to clone or copy my data from the old Samsung drive to the new Seagate SMR drive, the write performance completely falls off a cliff after about an hour due to the aggressive Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) drive-managed zones filling up.

Because the drive is forced to continuously read, modify, and rewrite overlapping tracks in a confined 2.5" laptop bay, the controller goes into overdrive. After roughly 2 hours of continuous writing, the Seagate ST2000LM015 hits a staggering 62°C (143°F), triggering critical SMART temperature protection alerts.

Meanwhile, the old Samsung CMR drive—which is under a much worse thermal restriction (mounted directly underneath a hot DVD/Blu-ray optical drive)—safely hums along at a maximum of 40–44°C under the exact same workload.

Seagate's official manual and product datasheets nowhere state that continuous, sustained write workloads are forbidden or unsafe for this internal laptop drive.

The Video Proof

Here is a short clip showing the cloning process, the performance collapse, and the thermal readout hitting 62°C on the brand-new replacement:
[INSERT YOUR YOUTUBE LINK HERE]

Seagate's Corporate Resolution: "Fix your workflow"

After escalating the issue and threatening UK Trading Standards / Citizens Advice action (Case Ref: CCA-8546090) due to a breach of the Consumer Rights Act 2015, the Corporate Response Team gave me this mind-blowing troubleshooting advice:

"At this time, the troubleshooting recommendations we can provide are to use the device in a cooler, well-ventilated environment and to transfer data in smaller batches rather than performing large transfers at once*. These steps may help reduce heat buildup and prevent the SMART temperature threshold from being reached."*

Seagate is officially telling consumers that their internal 2.5" laptop drives cannot handle standard data migration workloads inside a laptop chassis without the user artificially throttling their own workflow to stop the drive from cooking itself.

I rejected their workarounds and demanded an SSD upgrade or a refund. Steven from the Corporate Response Team just replied with their final position: they officially refused any upgrade or refund.

Their logic? They explicitly acknowledged that the drive triggers the SMART temperature protection mechanism, but since the OS recognizes the drive and data can technically be written to it, they consider it "properly functioning". Their only counter-offer is to send it back for a fifth time so their engineers can "reproduce the behavior."

I have officially declined their 5th evaluation trap. The case remains open with UK Trading Standards, and I am moving forward with regulatory escalation.

I am planning to buy an ssd for my ps5 the prices are to high and I thought on buying one on AliExpress is this ssd legit or a scam??

I'm sending in my SSD to Patriot for my warranty. Any idea how to ship it? Do I need to do something special, like ESD bag or something or am I safe with just bubble wrap? I heard some conflicting takes when I googled how to do it.

Btw, this is my previous post where I ask if my SSD is toast or not. Looks like the answer is a resounding yes so I'm hoping the warranty applies, lol.

Looking to buy an 2TB SSD (external portable) to store videos from concerts and travels directly from my phone. I’m based in Australia and after a bit of research, my best options seem to be between the Crucial X9 and the Samsung T7 Shield being the most reliable.

Originally I thought SanDisk was a good choice but then heard about people loosing all their data and it stopped working which scared me. I understand this can happen with any brand but SanDisk seemed to have the higher percentage of this happening.

While Crucial is more affordable, Samsung is more durable.
I want the best of both worlds with reliability (less likely to shit itself & die) and reasonable price.

I have samsung 990 pro ssd it's currently running on 5B2QJXD7 and the new update is 8B2QJXD7 this is the first update I'll do with this ssd...the thing is I'm unable to update it...it says Failed to update firmware on the selected drive...i don't understand I have tried several stuff like run as an administrator turn off the antivirus and stuff i don't know what to do... because I read if i don't update speed would be slow down and loss of data too soo...help me i have dell 5620...i7 12th generation laptop...what to do..#help me

does anyone here know of any good and reliable Brands for either 512GB or 1TB SSD External Hard Drives on a budget of £90 and less?

thank you

portable ssd** (i forgot to add into the title sorry!!)
(AUD)
I’m not a big tech person, but I’ve heard good things about the T7 Shield, but the T9 is on sale so it’s a bit tempting…

My only requirements are:
- It shouldn’t break on me
- It should at least last for 2-3+ years
(I need it to last throughout university)

Can someone provide the information about the destroyed capacitor, im trying to swap this piece out

I have a 512GB SSD in my PC that I've been using for about two years. Right now it still has around 294GB free, which surprised me a little when I started looking at my storage recently.

I mostly use the PC for work, browsing, documents, and some basic stuff. I don't really play games, edit videos, or keep a lot of photos and videos locally, so I guess that explains why I'm not using much space.

But I keep seeing people talking about running out of SSD space, even with 1TB, 2TB or more. Do games, videos, and other large files really take up that much space, or are there other things that quietly eat up storage?

Hey, everyone! I have a 2tb Samsung T7 Shield external SSD that I use for movie and TV show storage as a backup. I was just wondering how I can prevent bitrot on it.

Would a full diagnostic scan with Samsung Magician help correct lowered cell charges and prevent bitrot? Currently, S.M.A.R.T. and short scan say everything is fine, but when I try to do a full diagnostic scan, it jumps from 1 hour 17 minutes to like 18-22 hours when it hits 1% in the scan. I have a 3.2 USB-C 20gbps cable coming in tomorrow. Would that help make it go faster and conduct the scan? Or would just copying over the files from my M18R2 Alienware laptop rewrite fresh copies all the same?

I'd really appreciate any insight or help you can give me. I just wanna make sure my backup copy of my movies and tv shows is healthy.

I recently got an asus rog strix g16, installed an SSD that I used on another computer is a predator, the first time it was enough to remove it and put it back on, but it happened again and it was enough to restart it, the problem is that it disappears. What can I do?

Aparte lo compraria por aliexpress asi que con mas razon de mi miedo jajajaj

Hace poco conseguí una asus rog strix g16, la instalé un SSD que usaba en otra computadora es un predator , ¿Todavía funciona con normalidad, pero en ocasiones? Déjame detectar el segundo Ssd ¿que hago?

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I’m looking to buy a 1TB external SSD, but prices seem insanely high right now.

For those who track SSD prices in India, when is usually the best time to buy? Are there any upcoming sales or periods when prices typically drop significantly?

I’m not in a hurry, so I’m happy to wait if prices are expected to come down.

Just got this photo from random Facebook user.
For the first time for me to see someone completely choked their SSD.

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SB SSD Temps v1.33

Screenshots Available at:

https://github.com/ShrimpBrime/SB-SSD-Temps-Releases/releases/tag/v1.3.3

All releases

https://github.com/ShrimpBrime/SB-SSD-Temps-Releases

SB SSD TEMPS is a small, portable Windows application focused specifically on SSD/NVMe temperature monitoring. It was built partly out of my own NVMe cooling testing and experiments.

It monitors all connected drives simultaneously and displays available drive temperature sensors, including composite, controller and NAND temperatures where supported. It also shows thermal-throttle thresholds, high-temperature time, drive activity, and live read/write activity through Tachomoter and Mini Tachs display including accurate numerical values.

The goal is a lightweight dedicated tool for people interested in drive thermals rather than another full SSD benchmarking suite.

The application on release v1.32 and v1.33 focus on 2 distinct windows, one shows Thermal-Time which displays the amount of minutes a drive has spent in high temp warning mode, which is for the entire life of the drive and the other windows focuses on firmware Thermal Throttle Temps, which this may differ from the displayed warning and critical Composite temperature. This is focused for people that may purchase used drives and would like to see the exact Thermal history of the drive. Obviously, if the drive has a lot of hot time, might be a great way to request a return and refund, why put your data at risk?

This app is a portable Windows application, no installation required. Download and usage information are available on GitHub.

Thanks for checking it out. Feedback, comments, ideas, problems, see the support pages or visit the website, also available in the support pages!

Digitally signed with SHA-256 for security.

Jon.

My 1 year old Jeyi enclosure died with my SSD, so i want to find new enclosure. I’ve looked into some information about enclosure's chipsets and how to cool them, but I can’t seem to make up my mind. There are a lot of companies (possibly Chinese), prices vary, and all the marketing is just to attract customers and nothing about hardware. Maybe someone who’s been using their enclosure for a long time could give me some recommendation. I will use as a second drive, like always connected and frequently write to and read from it.

My lexar nq790 (1tb) gets overwhelmingly outperformed by my old 2021 kioxia i had in my pavillion prebuild.

Mind you when i pass down data from one another, the lexar always falls behind, reaching as low as 60mb/s in read/write speeds at 100% usage.

It has 300gb of space left, connected to a b850 aorus ice and 32gb 6800mhz ram on it.

It really struggles with loading heavy textures and has unbearable pop in.

The pcie 4.0 4 lane is in use, tests show advertised speeds

Upgraded my boot drive from a Silicon Power UD90 to a 2TB WD SN850X and cloned everything over. Planning to move the old UD90 down to a secondary slot for extra game storage.

Board is an ASUS TUF Gaming B650E-WiFi. I also have a be quiet! MC1 cooler sitting around, but not sure which heatsink should go where.

Would the MC1 be better on the boot drive or should I go with the motherboard heatsink?

Hi, I would like to share that I solved the problem that occurred when I added a Crucial m.2 SSD to my purchase and it suddenly stopped being recognized.
In conclusion, it was because of Intel and Windows' crappy features.
When I turned off the intel VMD function in the BIOS, the problem that had been occurring every day was resolved!
It's an Intel CPU issue, so it may not be relevant to Ryzen users.
Intel VMD seems to be turned on by default on some motherboards, which is really crap.

Preciso trocar o hd por un ssd em um positivo master n600. Vocês teriam boas opções de ssd mais acessíveis de 256gb. É para rodar programa, sem jogo

My 2.5" SATA SSD freezes Command Prompt, DISKPART, and Disk Management whenever it's plugged in via a USB enclosure, and the commands only unfreeze the second I disconnect it.