7 Sep
2024
7 Sep
'24
5:26 p.m.
On Sat, 7 Sep 2024 08:53:54 -0700
William Morder via tde-users <users(a)trinitydesktop.org> wrote:
My internal 2 tb SSD has suddenly become "locked"; even though I myself
didn't
lock it. The good people at Mc$haft started nagging me about enabling UEFI
partitioning, but I had managed to get round that by using grub instead.
[...]
This newer SSD, where for the past couple
years I have had my system installed, been running fine, will not boot at
all.
Is this a Samsung SSD? The reason I ask is that they've had issues recently:
some 970/980/990 SSDs were shipped with bad firmware that causes them to
age and die prematurely. A firmware update was published, but it only
prevents further premature aging and doesn't fix drives that have already died,
from what I understand. (There are also rumours of some batches of 870 EVOs
being flaky, but I don't think that was ever confirmed by the manufacturer.)
If your drive is one of the affected Samsung models, you may be out of luck,
although your description of the failure doesn't match the most common
manifestation of this issue, which has the drive dropping to read-only.
E. Liddell