Has anyone ever had this issue with NVMe SSDs?

"A device which does not exist was specified."

Is this a hardware defect? The drive (PNY CS3140 1TB) is only about 5 weeks old. It seems to fix itself after a couple of reboots, but it's very annoying. Linux doesn't seem to have any issues with it yet.

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Nevermind, Linux also doesn't like it now. I guess it's faulty. *sigh*

I don't think it's fake. I got it from a local shop which I usually trust.

@fell I avoid SSDs with Phison.controllers like plague after fiasco with Kingston KC400 (and other cheap SSDs using Phison S11). This one is using Phison PS5018-E18, so... I'm sadly not surprised.

I had similar issues with multiple NVME SSDs in NVME-USB enclosure if partition table got corrupted, nuking them with DD usually was enough to make them work again

@fell@ma.fellr.net @techsupport@lemmy.world smart readings? e.g. Crystal Disk Info

@aliceif @techsupport I have never seen SMART report an actual problem in a useful way, and also not this time. The drive claims it's fine.

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@BananaTrifleViolin Good idea. The M.2 slot was left unpopulated for years before I added this drive. It's possible that some dust got in there causing a connection issue.

I re-seated it and wiggled it around a bit to ensure any dust between the contacts got out of the way. It's being properly recognised now, but we'll see for how long.

@fell @aliceif @techsupport I find smartctl useful for confirming driver temperatures (it made me realize CPU can survive more than spinning rust). It may be also useful to determine "how worn out correctly working drive is"... but clearly your drive is broken in unexpected way.

@fell @techsupport you can read that error log with some command in the nvme executable on linux, might be a nothingburger though

@aliceif @techsupport It's just always the same entry saying something like "command completed successfully"

PNY's own "SSD Toolbox" reports 100% SSD Life (whatever that means) and no available firmware updates. I can also "optimizate" my SSD here, which is funny.

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@Thorry84 Yes, of course.