Samsung 980 Pro Firmware Bug

Posted 4th Apr 2023
Had a problem with the Drive, possibly connected to the v3 Firmware Bug.
1TB 980 Pro is two Years old and has 15.7TB written to it. Updated Drive Firmware only last Month.
The Bug also affects 1TB Drives.

Failed on Magician Data Migration after an attempted clone to a new 990 Pro.

Failed on Diagnostic Scan (Full) showing 1 Bad Cluster in Red. It also failed on Gigabyte Master BIOS Disk Scan. Passed on Windows Disk Check.

Copying from this Drive had become very slow. Temperatures on all 3 installed M2 Drives were idle at 48 Degrees.

It went downhill after that, Start Menu became buggy and Calculator didn't exist on the Drive anymore.
Recycle Bin reported corruption.


In diskpart, protected Volumes can be removed.
delete par override

In Disk Man. create new GPT Volume.
Create Partitions and untick Quick Format - writes all Flash Memory with FF

Magician Diagnostic Scan (Full) and Gigabyte Master BIOS Disk Scan(Full) both Passed.

Disk Temperatures are now different where before they were around 48 C at idle (Magician had a recent update and it may have contained a Temperature bug fix)

970 EVO 512GB 18 C
980 Pro 1TB 48 C
990 Pro 2TB (Boot) 21 C

Clean the Drive before RMA.
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