essinghigh
Dabbler
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- Feb 3, 2023
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Hello folks,
Not looking for any support on this one - just thought it might be an interesting share.
I just killed a Sabrent Q4 2TiB NVMe by running a SMART test -- I'm not joking. It also happened to be my primary Windows machine's OS drive, so this will be fun to rebuild on a spare.
Was doing some performance testing and wanted to see how much the drive had been written to - so as any sane Windows user does I used scoop to install smartmontools. I checked the drive, smartctl -a C:, 16TiB, not bad!
Then came a fatal mistake, I thought "what the hell - let's run a SMART test". And I did (smartctl -t long C:).
At first it seemed fine, though after about 5 seconds Windows bluescreened, a critical process had died. Weird, but whatever. I let it collect a dump so I can take a look later, and uh oh! I've booted into UEFI. That's not good. I go to reboot and notice the NVMe is not in the boot list, that's more alarmingly not good. No problem though - probably just some weird issue I've run into, I'll just boot into a live mint env and fix it.
Nope.
Mint couldn't see the drive, odd, okay. I go into UEFI - it doesn't even see the drive connected at the PCIe level. Weird -- maybe I did something to the slot?
I switch slot, no dice. Okay, time to move to another machine.
Another machine, no dice. Shit. It's dead.
I'm ordering a USB enclosure for the thing on the off chance I can at least get some life out of it, but for now seems I've completely killed the thing. Very ironic, considering the method of it's execution. And I can't really chalk it down to random coincidence.
Not looking for any support on this one - just thought it might be an interesting share.
I just killed a Sabrent Q4 2TiB NVMe by running a SMART test -- I'm not joking. It also happened to be my primary Windows machine's OS drive, so this will be fun to rebuild on a spare.
Was doing some performance testing and wanted to see how much the drive had been written to - so as any sane Windows user does I used scoop to install smartmontools. I checked the drive, smartctl -a C:, 16TiB, not bad!
Then came a fatal mistake, I thought "what the hell - let's run a SMART test". And I did (smartctl -t long C:).
At first it seemed fine, though after about 5 seconds Windows bluescreened, a critical process had died. Weird, but whatever. I let it collect a dump so I can take a look later, and uh oh! I've booted into UEFI. That's not good. I go to reboot and notice the NVMe is not in the boot list, that's more alarmingly not good. No problem though - probably just some weird issue I've run into, I'll just boot into a live mint env and fix it.
Nope.
Mint couldn't see the drive, odd, okay. I go into UEFI - it doesn't even see the drive connected at the PCIe level. Weird -- maybe I did something to the slot?
I switch slot, no dice. Okay, time to move to another machine.
Another machine, no dice. Shit. It's dead.
I'm ordering a USB enclosure for the thing on the off chance I can at least get some life out of it, but for now seems I've completely killed the thing. Very ironic, considering the method of it's execution. And I can't really chalk it down to random coincidence.