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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 I am replying here, as this was the last response that I got; not ignoring Felix, Nik, et al. Well, so I went across town and dug out my SATA/SSD connector tools out of storage. It turns out that I have not just one, but two of them, and they are both USB 3.0, so I assume that they are pretty up-to-date, even though I haven't used them at all in a couple years. They have just been sitting tight in a sealed plastic bag. Neither of these SSDs are recognized by my machine, using either connector. (Don't know what they are properly called, but there is a picture in that links that Felix sent: https://www.newegg.com/rosewill-rcuc-16001/p/N82E16812119874 https://web.archive.org/web/20240907172904/https://www.newegg.com/rosewill-rcuc-16001/p/N82E16812119874 Mine look pretty much the same, except my brands are, respectively, StarTech and Sabrent. The internal SSDs are, respectively, a Samsung 2 tb, 970 EVO Plus, and the factory-installed 128 gb SSD, don't know a brand name, other than that it shipped installed with a Lenovo Ideapad 3.15 laptop, and was never used. Only when this Samsung 2 tb SSD started misbehaving, then I tried out the factory-installed SSD, and that only seemed to make things worse, as now I cannot use either one, nor even get my machine to recognize them. When the Samsung is installed as the internal drive in my system, it is locked, and I cannot get into my system at all; When the factory SSD is installed as the internal drive, I get the startup menu trying to get me to register my "new" machine, which is now of course at least 2 years old. It may be that I can take these drives to somebody who knows better, and get them wiped clean, reformatted, breathe some new life into them. Otherwise, this 2 tb Samsung is a waste of money and time, as I just barely managed to back up all my data (and not as organized and neatly as I would like) before everything went to hell. At present I have install my entire system on a 256 gb flash drive, complete with root, swap and home partitions, with no internal hard drive at all. I boot from grub, and superstitiously avoiding UEFI and everything from Mc$haft, the rotten Apple, or other similar places of origin. Any ideas about how to proceed are welcome. I can look around for a new laptop, but I think that it will just be more of the same. I hesitate to put another SSD in my machine, as I fear that I will get caught in that same endless loop again. Well, at least I didn't lose any data, and all my work is still intact. I am once again considering how feasible it would be to move into a cave up in the mountains, buying a solar panel setup, using stone tools, and living as a hermit. Bill ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
