I didn’t see that anyone posted about the new Samsung drive that dropped a few days ago. My new Framework is currently shipping to me and wanted to run the 980 Pro, When I went to buy from Samsung direct I saw the new 990 was out for preorder. I I ordered it. Sadly it won’t be here until late in the month, so I won’t be able to use my brand new 1280P until later, unless I get my hands on another drive before 990 arrives. Which may happen, I may borrow a older nvme in the meantime. I didn’t get it for the faster speed, It’s also supposed to have less power usage. We will see.
Thanks @Second_Coming. I’m not a heavy tech user and a lot of this is new to me. I don’t really care a lot about battery usage as I’m sure I’ll be on power most of the time or at the very least very close to a power. But I did think it would help. I do like Samsung products and that is why I wanted to go with them, and I get a military discount. That helps.
So I guess I’ll just get the newest Samsung drive to have the newest drive. Seem for me it’s always the other way around. As soon as I buy the latest and greatest, it’s replace a few days later. LOL
I have this drive. I’ve had it running for about a month now. But I honestly don’t know how to measure it’s efficiency. I was running another drive for a few weeks while waiting on this one. My daily use is usually plugged in and I haven’t done any testing to know if there is a difference. I also don’t know even how to test this.
So just to clarify: You are not using any acpi, aspm or nvme-kernel-bootargs in order to use the drive? This drive does not automatically disconnect every once in a while and remount as read-only?
Welp, I don’t know what most of that means. so no, I’m not. I’m running Win11 and drivers. I installed the drive, installed windows and it just works. I’ve had no issues so far. Samsung Magician works fine and reports everything is ok.
Hmm, thanks for the heads up, I’ll keep an eye on it. The screen shot above was taken just before I posted. I looked all through magician and couldn’t find a % usage anywhere. if I’m missing where it’s at let me know. I downloaded the Crystal Disc info and here is what I got. It’s a fresh download so I don’t know if that skews anything but I looks like it tracks pretty well to my usage. I’m not a hard user and rarely shut down my PC. When I’m done for the day I put my computer into hibernate so I don’t have to reload everything the next day. Not sure if any of this info help.
@Gunner how is it going?
I’ve ordered a 990 Pro myself, because the WD SN770 1TB one still disconnects every once in a while and I believe my NVME drive to be faulty.
@Usernames While I would agree that I would hold off on buying one until they get it figured out, it would be the right move. If you don’t own one yet why are you so worried. Just wait until they figure it out or go buy another drive.
I preordered mine and of course none of this was going on. I’m stuck with what I have and I’m not gong to throw it away and get a new drive because of internet reports. If it fails early it fails, I’ll get another drive. It’s damn near the cheapest part of your whole computer, thought still top price for a NVME. But as I mentioned above, I have the 2TB model and I’m not see anything bad with my drive. It just works and the drive is still at 100% health per Crystal disk.
Samsung Magician just updated, I haven’t looked at the notes to see what the update was but I just did it yesterday. Magician shows my drive health is good. Magician does not give a %, at least not that I have found.
Supported LBA Sizes (NSID 0x1)
Id Fmt Data Metadt Rel_Perf
0 + 512 0 0
=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 34 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 10%
Percentage Used: 0%
Data Units Read: 180,327 [92.3 GB]
Data Units Written: 572,972 [293 GB]
Host Read Commands: 1,798,994
Host Write Commands: 5,953,179
Controller Busy Time: 66
Power Cycles: 16
Power On Hours: 8
Unsafe Shutdowns: 1
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0
Warning Comp. Temperature Time: 0
Critical Comp. Temperature Time: 0
Temperature Sensor 1: 34 Celsius
Temperature Sensor 2: 34 Celsius
Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 64 entries)
No Errors Logged
I have no baseline to compare the energy consumption to, no help there.
All I can offer is an update/snapshot of my usage from smartmontools, if anyone is still gun-shy about picking up the 990P
=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 39 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 10%
Percentage Used: 0%
Data Units Read: 9,437,853 [4.83 TB]
Data Units Written: 10,887,623 [5.57 TB]
Host Read Commands: 70,576,872
Host Write Commands: 43,921,657
Controller Busy Time: 541
Power Cycles: 93
Power On Hours: 58
Unsafe Shutdowns: 11
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0
Warning Comp. Temperature Time: 0
Critical Comp. Temperature Time: 0
Temperature Sensor 1: 39 Celsius
Temperature Sensor 2: 43 Celsius
Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 64 entries)
No Errors Logged
so no, I’m not. I’m running Win11 and drivers. I installed the drive, installed windows and it just works. I’ve had no issues so far. Samsung Magician works fine and reports everything is ok.
