Failed m.2 - how to clone without reinstalling?

Och

Och

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Built a computer for my daughter about two years ago, and her m.2 SSD failed. It still works, but on reboot BIOS gives warning to replaced, and Samsung Magician shows drive is critical.

I ordered a new identical drive, but how do I clone it? I see there are "duplicator" docking stations sold on amazon, anyone have experience with these?

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Use something like this to image the drive,

https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

also going to need to make a recovering drive with it (USB drive will do), then put the new drive in one of the other M.2 slots (assuming you're not using all three), boot off of the rescue media drive and use it to image the new drive. Then just swap out the old drive for the new. Could probably get away with leaving the new where it is and just remove the old.
 
I bought a docking duplicator station on amazon, hopefully I'll be able to successfully clone it without messing with software. I've done this before with SATA hdd/ssds.
 
It failed today, system wont boot.

I will def claim warranty, it was over $500 when I bought it.
 
Wasn't able to clone it, read errors on some files, but at least the important stuff was saved.

Word of warning, I used the stock Asus motherboard heatsink with the drive, and when I removed it, the thermal pad was kind of gooey and I think it might have contributed to the drive failure.
 
Och said:
Wasn't able to clone it, read errors on some files, but at least the important stuff was saved.

Word of warning, I used the stock Asus motherboard heatsink with the drive, and when I removed it, the thermal pad was kind of gooey and I think it might have contributed to the drive failure.
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Interesting, I had my Samsung fail on my asus board. Just dead on boot one day. I know these things don't give much if any warning when the go, but I didn't even consider it may have cooked to death. :lol:

The replacement is running at 47C right now. No idea where these things typically run temp wise.
 
Greasy said:
Interesting, I had my Samsung fail on my asus board. Just dead on boot one day. I know these things don't give much if any warning when the go, but I didn't even consider it may have cooked to death. :lol:

The replacement is running at 47C right now. No idea where these things typically run temp wise.
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Idle usually around 50ish, depending on your airflow.
 
You don't want the temps to be too low because the controllers actually like to run warm, but you don't want it to high as the chips want to be cool. I'd say no more than 60c for optimal performance from the controller and chips, but no less than 35-40c either.
 
Nunz said:
You don't want the temps to be too low because the controllers actually like to run warm, but you don't want it to high as the chips want to be cool. I'd say no more than 60c for optimal performance from the controller and chips, but no less than 35-40c either.
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Actually I think it's the NAND chips that like to be hot around 70C, but the controller, which is essentially a processor, likes to be cool.
 
I had to double check, but no, I had it right. The chips will begin throttling above 70c, but the controller will go upwards of 90c+, and if the controller is too cold (think 20c or something) you'll also see a reduction in performance.

Any mobo worth a damn should have a built in heatsink/cover for the M.2 drive, and keep those temps in check. Unless you're blowing 45c air into the case :lol: but then I'd imagine you'd have more important problems than your M.2 SSD temps haha
 
A lot of motherboards have very poor placement for the m.2 drives, for instance I built a system for my niece and the m.2_1 drive is right under the GPU. Ugh.
 
Samsung has the worst ****ing warranty service I have ever experienced. Takes them forever to respond, phone support is horrible, they called me and said they will be issuing a refund for the broken drive and the link to the refund coupon they send does not work.
 
I honestly don't think at this point i'll get a refund or a replacement, they are all acting clueless and keep transferring from one dept to another.
 
The problem is, apparently Samsung's hard drive division belongs to Seagate, so their support setup is a complete clusterpluck. I might have to take this to small claims court since it is impossible to reach the department responsible for the refund.
 
Still haven't got a response from them, called several times every time they tell me they are sending message to the upper management.

I will actually take them to small claims court just out of general principle.
 
I ended up sending them a letter with demand for arbitration. They called me today, apologized, and provided me with a working promo code. Very frustrating to jump through all these loops, can't believe they have such awful support.
 
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