Recent content by Black6spdZ

Garbage Samsung products apparently.. anyone old enough to remember IBM "deathstars" was bad enough to make them sell off their entire storage division

I love how everyone here is pointing the finger at everything else besides Samsung.. nothing on my system has changed, in the two months.. hell I hardly use this PC!.. take that back, started with the 2x firmware then upgraded to the 3 and now 4.. so if ANYTHING is to blame it's Samsung...

I may do a backup and secure erase on this drive to see if it really is an issue with Samsung refusing to do nand garbage collection in firmware now.. has anyone else with low writes now tried this?

134GB of data with a 200GB unallocated overprovision space too

since this thread has revolved around the write reduction problem I presented proof of this.. guess you overlooked that aspect

I know this! did you look at all at my screenshot? no, but I want an SSD that doesn't halve the writes in 2 months! I'm willing to bet Samsung disabled or greatly reduced garbage collection to reduce the write error from early firmware. Use a band-aid to fix one problem to create another.. are...

This problem is NOT just for the 4TB drives and it even shows on an older PCIe Gen3 system! Latest 4B2QJXD7 firmware with full performance mode enabled as well. These drivers are utter garbage!! Regret my purchase now. Samsung NEVER again!! My guess is they had to do something to the write...

flashing will solve nothing, it has a hardware fault.. the rest of my cards work fine

I have more than one of these cards.. the one in the OP has the bad VRM and is dead

I started this new thread from your suggestion.. I have also verified the DP port does indeed work on these cards

yea that's pretty much what I thought.. only thing I can guess is it lost contact with the heatspreader and ran away and just fried

at first I thought this was just a corrupt BIOS with the "unknown memory" error but now I can see damage to the memory VRM/PCB. This look repairable?

haven't considered this, any recommendations or price estimates?

at this point it definitely looks like this card is FUBAR'd.. tried two different computers, and both Win 10 and Win 8.1, system freezes as soon as I attempt to load the driver. If you think there are other steps that could unbrick this card I'll start a new thread for it.. but past experience...

so this was all from an incorrect BIOS? I have a FirePro S9150 "R9 290x/390" that has been working flawlessly with a modded BIOS to limit power that all of a sudden started doing the same as OPs cards, "unknown memory" I have tried flashing back to a couple original BIOSs that I had but with the...