To be clear, I am not saying that those are good or bad. I am just saying that this particular conclusion seemed to be based on incorrect deducing. With all respect to NorthridgeFix and his awesome work!
@@maklogetrich2378 I get an abnormal number of RMA from those SP, specially the A55 model. They just start to fail, not being detected sometimes, or awfully slow.
@@davidlguerr I have only bought and used Samsung and Crucial and one time Kingston. Some of my Samsungs are 6 years old, Crucial 3 years (I use them in my servers) The Kingston I bought dies after 6 months
You get Samsung and Crucial SSDs failing the most because they're the most popular, not because they're more prone to failure. If you sell 1000x more units than the competitor, even if you have a failure rate 10 times lower than the competitor, you will have 100x more SSDs failing.
That is absolutely correct. Samsung/Crucial are on a different level. From my experience, the worst SSDs are the white label SSDs, which in most cases are just a DRAMless SSD with Kyoxia NAND and a Phison controller. Those fail alot. There are some Kingston models prone to failure like the V300. Most of the issues are not shorts, but rather the controller or the NAND itself.
Great video! Careful implying that Samsung and Crucial are less reliable and more likely to fault as they are very common drives and it could just be that there are more of them on the market, so higher qty to go wrong, but this might not be a higher PPM failure rate
Good job. 👍 I have a crucial drive in my laptop, and it's almost 3 years 😅. Samsung evo Plus in my pc. I think it's just that they are the most popular, that why you gonna find a lot of them in the market that got broke. Most of my friends have crucial ssds. So I believe it's very popular.
I got nervous when he said that but it only makes sense there would be more repairs if they are more popular. I just bought some new Crucial SSD and NVME to upgrade existing drives.
As a Hvac tech, I am looking to add ECM control board repair to my arsenal. No other company that does furnace repair offers the service around here so it is a niche market for me. I look forward to learning more from your videos and thank you for posting so often.
Crucial and Samsung are the two larger flash memory manufacturers. They're not inherently worse, just more prevalent. Crucial is the consumer arm of Micron, one of the largest flash memory manufacturers in the world.
They are for sure the most popular solutions, I have like a 10 year old Samsung EVO 256GB SSD and it still works so I can't complaint. On the latest PC I have 990 PRO nvme and no issues. I have many samsung ssds and no issues. The only disk that died on me was Corsair MP510 960GB which they also replaced under warranty.
Samsung & Micron are the lead manufacturers for both NAND flash and also RAM & VRAM chips, so it makes sense for you to keep repairing them. Even less known/cheaper brands often use Micron chips.
That’s pretty quick work… Good job Alex…. I just got package from Temu from hot air gun for temporary that I am learning.,, man it’s not easy as you think guys… it’s pretty hard for me to replace capacitors, it’s so tiny thing to see,, I need buy hdmi camera someday… well, enjoy watch your experience…. )
Yes, he's working under a microscope and feeding the 'scope's output into the video feed, but in reality those components are *tiny*. That's why Northridge gets the big bucks.😀
Also, northridge do sell the microscopes. They have them improved from their experience so would be worth it to you perhaps. In these days of competition, the edge is found in technology and knowledge.
The SSDs are failing because of stupid system builders and not because of bad quality. The power density is quite high in big SSDs and even higher in fast ones. They will reach their MTBF without any problems if the airflow is good, but with too little airflow (like in many prebuilts and in cheap watercooled PCs without case fans) they will die to the heat quickly.
I'd have thought you would have a separate "sacrificial" system to power drives on test, maybe even run an over voltage/current limiting circuit inline.
I guess I have been lucky then. I had my Samsung EVO for almost 5 years now. But again, I think you have lots of these because they're so popular, and maybe the most sold units world wide?
I have repaired some of these myself, mostly Western Digital. But once fixed we do not discard the drive, we keep using it at least for less important data and that's because here in my country they are quite expensive. PD: I miss the ending tune.
Hmmmm i have 1 MX500 in my desktop and just bought one for ny sons laptop for a dead WD Blue and i have not had an issue. VERY popular drive. Mind you I now have an NVME / PCI-E SSD as main boot.
I just watched the first seconds, Samsung and Crucial may are the most popular but for sure not the worst. I am personally using Samsung SSDs since the first one came out and exactly this only one died but after more than 10 years for a 120GB drive it's okay. That one was more than 1€ per GB lol. Crucial I also used some times also no problems only one has been DOA. Also sold my "old" ones everytime I can. Nobody's drive has failed until today except that oldest one.
from time to time I watch your videos. I totally enjoyed them all. I did some electronic certifications in my younger life and always wanted to learn to troubleshoot devices like what you are doing now. Any suggestions how can educate myself to do stuff like what you do? Thank you and godbless!!
Great job Alex. Is there a reason for not replacing both caps(both because other was getting hot as well) as well as backing it up so the person can have a working SSD back as well.
I was going to ask the same thing. Odds are, once the shorted caps were replaced, the drive would continue to remain reliable for many more years, assuming the power supply to which it was connected was not having power surges.
Hearing this is I am counting my blessings. I have the same Crucial drive only its a 512 and have had it running just fine for more than 10 years now. Dont think I will get many more out of it but dont think I will be getting another one knowing the issues they have.
have had multiple samsung 850 and 860 evo for years all doing fine, as a comment i read saying the same thing i immediately thought, samsung and crucial sata ssds are the most bought by far and therefore you'd see alot more of them.
Had Samsung Evo DOA, Sandisk SATA SSD (old version, not the new ones having issues) get corrupted. It happens to any brand. Currently run a mix of WD Black, Hynix, Crucial, Samsung and Inland. The Crucial and Inland are in things I don't care about. The Samsung likewise is not critical. Hynix and WD Black have been very good to me. But no matter what brand, have a backup. Any drive can fail. Protect yourself at all times.
Samsung und Micron are selling millions of SSDs, compared to other manufacturers. Some of them fail, it's like the all 4090 conectors are burning up, if one company dropshipped them to you.
So what was the capacitor responsible for? I assume the drive shouldn't be used anymore, just to copy data to a new drive? If you replaced the capacitor would the drive be working like new?
maybe people who buy cheaper SSD drives are not the kind of people that would pay for a repair service, we use a lot of Samsung EVO drives in servers are the fail rate is quite good considering they are SSDs, most datacenters prefer them for servers, i means, used 24/7 during years
Saying that Samsung and Crucial are the worst SSDs because you see more of those than anything else is like being a PC tech and saying that Windows is the worst OS because almost every PC that you work on is Windows. Of course it is. It's the most popular OS. I suspect if you look at failures as a percentage of sales volume, the picture changes.
I have a crucial P3 Nvme internal SSD. I was using it as an external in a SSD housing. It failed yesterday. Will not show in Apple Finder or Windows Explorer. Like in this video the drive blue light stays on when plugged in. Does not start flashing. I removed it from the housing and installed anothe r SSD to test the housing was not faulty. The SSD loaded fine so it is definitely the SSD that's the issue. Is this something you could look at? Thanks. And happy Christmas from Ireland.
But it's still less likely to die than most other brands. And all electronics can fail, so if you store, uhhh, "crucial" data on this drive, taking a frequent off-site backup is highly recommended.
Would replacing the faulty cap have fixed the issue long term or is it's failure attributable to another undiagnosable/not worth fixing/diagnosing reason.
Well done once again! Another Crucial SSD!? It may be because the market is flooded with them because of their very aggressive pricing policy... Just like Samsung SSDs!
The first thing I would do is back it up before I started plugging and unplugging I get to nervous LOL!! Because it'll be that one time you unplug it and plug it back in and then it doesn't work
When I worked in electronic manufacturi g we tested all componets before insertion to boards. If 1 % failed spec test the whole batch og componets was rejectex ans sent back to the manufacture. These days they dont even test the compents. Thats why we have higher failure rates now and life.
I have she same issue my the OS freezes 1st than BSOD ..afther reboot the machine can't find boot drive...I plugged it in docking station and still not recognized...I think I'm going to bring it to you @northridgefix.
Wait, so did you replace the capacitor or did you just remove the bad one and it allowed the drive to read? Also, what were the symptoms, did it show up but not allow any access to data, or not show up at all?
Those 2 companies also sell millions more units than their competition. At least that's what my fellow technicians tell me when I say similar things about other devices. LOL
Not because u get more broken Samsung or crucial drives to fix means they are no good it can mean that they are more popular choices so u going to get more of those repairs
those components are not made equal, some have really good quality and can last longer and some have average quality that breaks within the warranty time, it's like gambling
Well… Crucial and Samsung ones can be the most popular and that’s why you may receive those the most…
In the video gaming scene those are the most popular too with machines that are always on.
To be clear, I am not saying that those are good or bad. I am just saying that this particular conclusion seemed to be based on incorrect deducing. With all respect to NorthridgeFix and his awesome work!
That is right. In fact Crucial and Samsung SSDs are the most reliable ones. The thing is, Alex gets alot of them because alot of them are sold.
was about to say the same. Samsung is known to be most reliable.
Like Asus laptops
I don't think Crucial and Samsung are worse, I think they are just the most used drives. The only SSD I have had die on me was a Kingston.
I, as a professional, I am seeing dead SSDs all over the place, but Adata and SiliconPower are one of the worst.
@@davidlguerrsillicon power is truly the worst 😂
@@davidlguerri have that siliconpower for about 6-7 years, still going strong
@@maklogetrich2378 I get an abnormal number of RMA from those SP, specially the A55 model. They just start to fail, not being detected sometimes, or awfully slow.
@@davidlguerr I have only bought and used Samsung and Crucial and one time Kingston. Some of my Samsungs are 6 years old, Crucial 3 years (I use them in my servers) The Kingston I bought dies after 6 months
You get Samsung and Crucial SSDs failing the most because they're the most popular, not because they're more prone to failure.
If you sell 1000x more units than the competitor, even if you have a failure rate 10 times lower than the competitor, you will have 100x more SSDs failing.
That is absolutely correct. Samsung/Crucial are on a different level. From my experience, the worst SSDs are the white label SSDs, which in most cases are just a DRAMless SSD with Kyoxia NAND and a Phison controller. Those fail alot. There are some Kingston models prone to failure like the V300. Most of the issues are not shorts, but rather the controller or the NAND itself.
So, they are cheaply made then...............
IF they are the most sold then it's because of how cheap they are.
Bayes' theorem at its finest.
I have Crucial MX500 128GB. I bought it on the year 2012. So far for 11 years it is still working. 😅😅😅😅😅😅
Samsung and Crucial could be most popular drives so more fail.
@@pow9606 i think if ur drive is 24/7 turned on it will likely to fail within 2-3yrs.
Great video! Careful implying that Samsung and Crucial are less reliable and more likely to fault as they are very common drives and it could just be that there are more of them on the market, so higher qty to go wrong, but this might not be a higher PPM failure rate
Good job. 👍
I have a crucial drive in my laptop, and it's almost 3 years 😅. Samsung evo Plus in my pc.
I think it's just that they are the most popular, that why you gonna find a lot of them in the market that got broke.
Most of my friends have crucial ssds. So I believe it's very popular.
Just do regular backups to an external drive + a couple of cloud storage solutions
And I have an older Crucial BX100 model running 24/24 and it is has been very reliable.
I have that Samsung 850 Evo since 2016, still fast
I got nervous when he said that but it only makes sense there would be more repairs if they are more popular. I just bought some new Crucial SSD and NVME to upgrade existing drives.
As a Hvac tech, I am looking to add ECM control board repair to my arsenal. No other company that does furnace repair offers the service around here so it is a niche market for me. I look forward to learning more from your videos and thank you for posting so often.
Crucial and Samsung are the two larger flash memory manufacturers. They're not inherently worse, just more prevalent.
Crucial is the consumer arm of Micron, one of the largest flash memory manufacturers in the world.
They are for sure the most popular solutions, I have like a 10 year old Samsung EVO 256GB SSD and it still works so I can't complaint. On the latest PC I have 990 PRO nvme and no issues. I have many samsung ssds and no issues. The only disk that died on me was Corsair MP510 960GB which they also replaced under warranty.
Nice! The things that we can find fast with the thermal camera are amazing...wouldn't be without it.
Better than factory.. I'll say. You're the best Alex & Bossman. Love this channel ❤️
Samsung & Micron are the lead manufacturers for both NAND flash and also RAM & VRAM chips, so it makes sense for you to keep repairing them. Even less known/cheaper brands often use Micron chips.
That’s pretty quick work… Good job Alex…. I just got package from Temu from hot air gun for temporary that I am learning.,, man it’s not easy as you think guys… it’s pretty hard for me to replace capacitors, it’s so tiny thing to see,, I need buy hdmi camera someday… well, enjoy watch your experience…. )
Yes, he's working under a microscope and feeding the 'scope's output into the video feed, but in reality those components are *tiny*. That's why Northridge gets the big bucks.😀
Also, northridge do sell the microscopes. They have them improved from their experience so would be worth it to you perhaps.
In these days of competition, the edge is found in technology and knowledge.
WOW! The heat coming off that capacitor was insane. I've never seen one evaporate alcohol that quickly.
I work on these SSD’s too. Most of the Time it is the Controller IC itself. (My Opinion)
The was incredible! I would love to learn to test and troubleshoot circuit boards!
The SSDs are failing because of stupid system builders and not because of bad quality. The power density is quite high in big SSDs and even higher in fast ones. They will reach their MTBF without any problems if the airflow is good, but with too little airflow (like in many prebuilts and in cheap watercooled PCs without case fans) they will die to the heat quickly.
I'd have thought you would have a separate "sacrificial" system to power drives on test, maybe even run an over voltage/current limiting circuit inline.
I enjoyed the video, always do Alex. You've inspired me to fix more electronics and save the planet from ewaste. Thank you, eternally.
I guess I have been lucky then. I had my Samsung EVO for almost 5 years now. But again, I think you have lots of these because they're so popular, and maybe the most sold units world wide?
short n sweet! always good! thanks for the quickie!
that trade mark " Smile of Success " ... 😄
short n sweet 7:30am here with cuppa tea great video,,,,, keep safe and well
Short and oh so sweet! Loved it.
I have repaired some of these myself, mostly Western Digital. But once fixed we do not discard the drive, we keep using it at least for less important data and that's because here in my country they are quite expensive.
PD: I miss the ending tune.
Hmmmm i have 1 MX500 in my desktop and just bought one for ny sons laptop for a dead WD Blue and i have not had an issue. VERY popular drive. Mind you I now have an NVME / PCI-E SSD as main boot.
I just watched the first seconds, Samsung and Crucial may are the most popular but for sure not the worst. I am personally using Samsung SSDs since the first one came out and exactly this only one died but after more than 10 years for a 120GB drive it's okay. That one was more than 1€ per GB lol. Crucial I also used some times also no problems only one has been DOA. Also sold my "old" ones everytime I can. Nobody's drive has failed until today except that oldest one.
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Gotta love a quick fix. Good job!
from time to time I watch your videos. I totally enjoyed them all. I did some electronic certifications in my younger life and always wanted to learn to troubleshoot devices like what you are doing now. Any suggestions how can educate myself to do stuff like what you do? Thank you and godbless!!
Great job Alex. Is there a reason for not replacing both caps(both because other was getting hot as well) as well as backing it up so the person can have a working SSD back as well.
I was going to ask the same thing. Odds are, once the shorted caps were replaced, the drive would continue to remain reliable for many more years, assuming the power supply to which it was connected was not having power surges.
It's because the drive will soon fail again. You can't 100% repair these SSD's. Alex said he will backup the drive. Maybe you misheard him.
Dicas valiosas sempre!!. Obrigado, gratidão eterna.
Hearing this is I am counting my blessings. I have the same Crucial drive only its a 512 and have had it running just fine for more than 10 years now. Dont think I will get many more out of it but dont think I will be getting another one knowing the issues they have.
I bought a Samsung Evo 850 8 years ago. I still use it regularly.
In Bulgaria the MX series has 60months warranty. Failure on the 3rd year would cover the drive, the data you have to cover yourself.
Lucky customer got the data back. Nice job.
That was good! Short and quick job. Hey let me know if you want some Micron Crucial MX550 1tb drives that work great just sata locked for parts
I have 1 crucial mx100 and 1 sandisk with over 20k Hours each one still going strong, over 80% health.. got one pny and not even two years lasted.
Great job
have had multiple samsung 850 and 860 evo for years all doing fine, as a comment i read saying the same thing i immediately thought, samsung and crucial sata ssds are the most bought by far and therefore you'd see alot more of them.
Had Samsung Evo DOA, Sandisk SATA SSD (old version, not the new ones having issues) get corrupted. It happens to any brand. Currently run a mix of WD Black, Hynix, Crucial, Samsung and Inland. The Crucial and Inland are in things I don't care about. The Samsung likewise is not critical. Hynix and WD Black have been very good to me. But no matter what brand, have a backup. Any drive can fail. Protect yourself at all times.
3 years at how many write cycles?
Samsung und Micron are selling millions of SSDs, compared to other manufacturers.
Some of them fail, it's like the all 4090 conectors are burning up, if one company dropshipped them to you.
The master at work! 👍
Fantastic work as always! I was wondering, where did you learn how to repair electronics like this?
Watch this video th-cam.com/video/2I3N5g7-FMk/w-d-xo.html
Kindergarten 😜
That smile is amazing .
Alec, even though you used your precision fingers to diagnose the fault lol, it's great to see it on the thermal camera :-D
Smd capacitors are a pain.
Great episode
nice, great work
So amazing how one tiny part can spoil the fun! How many would have just gotten rid of the drive and replaced it with another one?
Nice video,can someone explain me why this ssd can't be used anymore with this removed as it work without?thanks!
Is the drive fixed? What caused the cap to go bad?
Hi friend, could you tell me what thermal camera you use?
Well done.
Hi,what thermo cam do you use in this video?
Many thanks.
Hey can you tell how you use your alcohol? You open the bottle and then put your cotton swabs?
Nice Great Job as usual
So what was the capacitor responsible for? I assume the drive shouldn't be used anymore, just to copy data to a new drive? If you replaced the capacitor would the drive be working like new?
maybe people who buy cheaper SSD drives are not the kind of people that would pay for a repair service, we use a lot of Samsung EVO drives in servers are the fail rate is quite good considering they are SSDs, most datacenters prefer them for servers, i means, used 24/7 during years
Great job Alex! Your skills are Crucial to the circuit board repair community! Lol
Or when you make the video game with the virtual Alex repairing stuff, Big Boss checks it to certify and then gives you back 3 items to go on. 🤣
How were you able to recover the data without replacing the broken capacitor first? What's even the purpose of that cap?
In my grocery shop, the most of my customers are human. Ir's amazing!
In our repair shop we let out hundreds of mx500 SSD upgrade and very seldom see issues, maybe one a year
😊love from India 🇮🇳 bangalore
There's a bad batch of Samsung Evo drives from the second half of 2021. If you own a drive, it's only a matter of time before they fail.
Hi, please. Can SSD M2 health be repaired replacing the capacitor? Thank you for your response :)
After the fix, do you garbage the drive?
Saying that Samsung and Crucial are the worst SSDs because you see more of those than anything else is like being a PC tech and saying that Windows is the worst OS because almost every PC that you work on is Windows. Of course it is. It's the most popular OS. I suspect if you look at failures as a percentage of sales volume, the picture changes.
I have a crucial P3 Nvme internal SSD. I was using it as an external in a SSD housing. It failed yesterday. Will not show in Apple Finder or Windows Explorer. Like in this video the drive blue light stays on when plugged in. Does not start flashing. I removed it from the housing and installed anothe r SSD to test the housing was not faulty. The SSD loaded fine so it is definitely the SSD that's the issue. Is this something you could look at? Thanks. And happy Christmas from Ireland.
i've had a crucial 500 gig ssd for about 5 years now, and no problems so far.
guess it will just die one day without a warning...
It can happen with any drive, from any brand. Most likely it will get to the maximum TBW before it fails from a shorted cap.
But it's still less likely to die than most other brands. And all electronics can fail, so if you store, uhhh, "crucial" data on this drive, taking a frequent off-site backup is highly recommended.
Very nice job......
Would replacing the faulty cap have fixed the issue long term or is it's failure attributable to another undiagnosable/not worth fixing/diagnosing reason.
Hello, I Dont see hot tweezers to buy on your website
He doesn't want to shoot his business in the foot. I use two soldering irons ... not as convenient, but they work.
Well done once again!
Another Crucial SSD!? It may be because the market is flooded with them because of their very aggressive pricing policy... Just like Samsung SSDs!
The first thing I would do is back it up before I started plugging and unplugging I get to nervous LOL!! Because it'll be that one time you unplug it and plug it back in and then it doesn't work
agree with you brother
When I worked in electronic manufacturi g we tested all componets before insertion to boards. If 1 % failed spec test the whole batch og componets was rejectex ans sent back to the manufacture. These days they dont even test the compents. Thats why we have higher failure rates now and life.
I have she same issue my the OS freezes 1st than BSOD ..afther reboot the machine can't find boot drive...I plugged it in docking station and still not recognized...I think I'm going to bring it to you @northridgefix.
Nice work
Very good job 👏 👍 👌
So, does the drive usable after you would change that cap ?
I mean can we continue using such drive ?
the best hard drive for storing files HDD.
SSD only for gaming.
How much was that fix, I have a drive with probably the same issue
5yr warranty on them, Crucial would of swapped that out unless the user wants the data
Mashallah... Love from Pakistan
It's incredible the low condensers reliability
It is caused by heat. Heat changes the semiconductor's properties.
@@davidlguerr Thanks a lot for explanation
Capacitors capacitors capacitors...
Wait, so did you replace the capacitor or did you just remove the bad one and it allowed the drive to read?
Also, what were the symptoms, did it show up but not allow any access to data, or not show up at all?
I lol'd when you burnt yourself... thumbs-up
I thought you (Alex) was supposed to repair the ssd!?. Can you still access all data on the ssd without that component?.
❤❤always amazing 📷
Those 2 companies also sell millions more units than their competition. At least that's what my fellow technicians tell me when I say similar things about other devices. LOL
Not because u get more broken Samsung or crucial drives to fix means they are no good it can mean that they are more popular choices so u going to get more of those repairs
nice save!!
those components are not made equal, some have really good quality and can last longer and some have average quality that breaks within the warranty time, it's like gambling
Look how many chips they gave you in the past. Now 1 chip 1 TB. It could be a 16 TB disk with same material cost.
These drives are NOT for hot-swapping on the SATA port...
Yeah maybe that's what happened.
A "short" is always good..... for business :D
My 2.5" samsung evo 840 ssd is running non stop since 2015 and still going like the 1st day lol