7 Sep
2024
7 Sep
'24
7:51 p.m.
On Saturday 07 September 2024 10:26:55 E. Liddell via tde-users wrote:
On Sat, 7 Sep 2024 08:53:54 -0700
William Morder via tde-users <users(a)trinitydesktop.org> wrote:
Indeed yes, I believe that it is a Samsung 970 SSD. (I need to shut down the
machine and take it apart to look, but I believe it's one of those.)
Going to dig out my SATA/SSD tool, similar to that to which Felix gave a
link -- and, if it fits my newer SSD -- I will be better prepared. It may be
that I will need an adapter, or even need to buy a new one of these tools,
but I was imagining that I might have to do that anyway. If this tool works,
at least with an adapter, that will be a simple and cheap fix, just requires
a bit of walking and digging, and I need the exercise.
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
More later.
Bill