Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe m.2 SSD Data Recovery

At Zero Alpha Data Recovery, we regularly recover data from failed Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe SSDs. These drives are fast and reliable, but can still suffer from various issues that lead to data loss.

Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD common problems

• Drive not detected by BIOS or operating system

• Sudden failure after overheating or power loss

• Controller failure (often S4LR020)

• Firmware corruption

• File system corruption or RAW partition

• Accidental format or deletion

• Slow performance or system freezing when drive is connected

Samsung 970 EVO Plus Power Management Schematic Diagram

	Part Number		S4LV003
	Architecture		ARM 32-bit Cortex-R5
	Host Interface		PCIe 4.0 x4
	Protocol Support		NVMe 1.3
	Number of IO Queues		128
	Fabrication Process		8nm
	DRAM Support		LPDDR4
	Client OEM Products		PM9A1

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Samsung 970 EVO Plus MZ-V7S1T0 1tb Data Recovery Caselog

This version was manufactured in 2021.06. Received this error message in Windows: A storage device requires your attention.This SSD failed its SMART Test but was readable using special data recover disk imaging tools.

See how we recover data from this SSD in our youtube video:

Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe m.2 SSD 1TB MZ-V7S1T0 

Data Recovery Caselog

05Aug24: A customer brought in an Samsung MZ-V7S1T0 SSD with model with part number MZVL21T0HBGLU, purchased in 2021, which has been giving them trouble with in an ASUS motherboard. Despite trying various procedures, they still encountered the warning screen below stating Warning: Please back-up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent and cause unpredictable fail" .When put into a docking station, the SSD was slow and crashed many applications. It was able to be read using our advanced software tools which allowed us to clone the data to another SSD. The customer was able to put the new SSD into his asus motherboard and run his computer again without any disruption to his work.

Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 SSD 2TB MZ-V7S2T0 

Data Recovery Caselog

17Apr24: This ssd came from a computer shop who said it was not working. It was removed from a desktop pc. We were able to get it to work in our special m2 reader slot on an asus motherboard. All data was recovered.

Error reported by the bios screen:

Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 2TB

Warning: Please back-up your data and replace your hard disk drive

A failure may be imminent and cause unpredictable fail

Press F1 to Run SETUP

SSD thermal signature was checked for electronics problems

normal heat signature for this model ssd in normal operating mode