Question Samsung SSD 980 Pro Errors

[kirkdickinson]

I have a Samsung SSD 980 Pro that is showing some errors in both HD Sentinel and Samsung Magician. SMART health status is 87%. When I run a full diagnostic scan from Samsung Magician, it runs about 15 minutes then gives me this error:

"Recovery failed. Check the disk connection and perform a Diagnostic Scan again."

It shows 5 blocks as red (bad) instead of blue (good) in the scan results.

After the scan, it says "Magician has found an error on this drive, it is recommended to recover."

I click Recovery, It at first says recovery in process, then after only a couple of seconds, it says: "Recovery failed. Check the disk connection and perform a Diagnostic Scan again."

It also says:
"Diagnostic Scan has stopped to to unknown error."

Seems like last time I ran it, there were more than 5 bad blocks. Do I need to just keep running this over and over until all the bad blocks are gone? Does this software actually reroute bad blocks or do I need some other software for that? HD Sentinel seems more of a diagnostic utility than a repair utility... right?

What are my options? Normally, I would use a USB to M.2 adapter and clone a failing drive and then swap them out. Macrium Reflect clone of this drive fails because it doesn't like the errors.

 

[Lutfij]

I would back up all mission critical data off the drive, then check to see if the drive has any firmware updates pending. After all of that, place it an external enclosure or use the drive internally as a disposable drive...meaning nothing mission critical resides on it.

Cloning failing drives are pointless, you'll migrate the corruption over to your new drive.

 

[USAFRet]

It appears you waited too long to do any backup.

Is this the OS drive?
What is on it?

 

[kirkdickinson]

It appears you waited too long to do any backup.

Is this the OS drive?
What is on it?

It is the OS Drive. I have a Macrium Reflect Drive image of this drive, but MR reports that the image was created with errors. This computer is running smooth with no odd behavior.

 

[kirkdickinson]

I would back up all mission critical data off the drive, then check to see if the drive has any firmware updates pending. After all of that, place it an external enclosure or use the drive internally as a disposable drive...meaning nothing mission critical resides on it.

Cloning failing drives are pointless, you'll migrate the corruption over to your new drive.

It is my OS drive and I don't keep any mission critical data on it except for the programs and configuration that I need to run. All my data is stored either on a NAS or a large HD. It is only a 1TB M.2 drive and other than as the boot drive, I don't think I have any use for it.

I do use a smaller M.2 drive for only Windows Temp, Swap, and all the Adobe temp files. This drive could serve that role, but the current drive is doing a fine job.

 

[USAFRet]

It is the OS Drive. I have a Macrium Reflect Drive image of this drive, but MR reports that the image was created with errors. This computer is running smooth with no odd behavior.

Copy any personal data off to elsewhere, and consider a full wipe and reinstall.
A corrupted MR image is pretty useless.

 

[kirkdickinson]

A corrupted MR image is pretty useless.

Can you please tell me what happens if I would try? If I were able to clone this drive to a new drive, the bad physical blocks wouldn't be bad... would they? If I cloned it, wouldn't it basically keep my OS and installed programs in place?

I did restore a MR image to an external drive, but I haven't tried to boot from it or anything.

I run so many different programs and have so many things on this computer that doing an OS up reinstall will take me the better part of a week before I could be back in production. I am hoping to avoid that.

 

[USAFRet]

Can you please tell me what happens if I would try? If I were able to clone this drive to a new drive, the bad physical blocks wouldn't be bad... would they? If I cloned it, wouldn't it basically keep my OS and installed programs in place?

I did restore a MR image to an external drive, but I haven't tried to boot from it or anything.

I run so many different programs and have so many things on this computer that doing an OS up reinstall will take me the better part of a week before I could be back in production. I am hoping to avoid that.

No, the corrupted physical blocks won't transfer to the target drive.
But Macrium will stop once it sees corrupted space on the drive.

Even if it completes, the data from the Source may be corrupted. Leading to corrupted at the Target.

You can try.
Don't expect good results.

 

[USAFRet]

doing an OS up reinstall will take me the better part of a week

So what would you do if the actual physical drive were to die right now?