Seems the SSD sometimes heats up and the content disappears from the device, mostly from my router, sometimes from my laptop.
Do you know what I should configure to put the drive to sleep or something similar to reduce the heat?

I’m starting up my datahoarder journey now that I replaced my internal nvme SSD.

It’s just a 500GB one which I attached to my d-link router running openwrt. I configured it with samba and everything worked fine when I finished the setup. I just have some media files in there, so I read the data from jellyfin.

After a few days the content disappears, it’s not a connection problem from the shared drive, since I ssh into the router and the files aren’t shown.
I need to physically remove the drive and connect it again.
When I do this I notice the somewhat hot. Not scalding, just hot.

I also tried this connecting it directly to my laptop running ubuntu. In there the drive sometimes remains cool and the data shows up without issue after days.
But sometimes it also heats up and the data disappears (this was even when the data was not being used, i.e. I didn’t configure jellyfin to read from the drive)

I’m not sure how I can be sure to let the ssd sleep for periods of time or to throttle it so it can cool off.
Any suggestion?

  • hedgehog@ttrpg.network
    15·
    9 months ago

    It sounds to me like you have a bad drive. I have several m.2 drives and they all run hot to the touch, but none of them regularly (if ever) lose data.

    What drive are you using? Have you run any diagnostics on it to see if it’s failing? Are only new files disappearing?

    If you just want to address the heat issue, have you tried a heat sink? If you already have one make sure you’ve taken off the plastic wrap or anything else that could be reducing contact with the drive.

    • pe1ucaOP
      2·
      9 months ago

      I don’t lose any data, it just hides, when I unplug then plug it the data is still there.
      All files hide during these issues, it’s as if the drive was empty.

      Since I’m just starting to play with having a samba share the drive is just in a m2 to usb-c adapter, so I don’t have a good way to put a heat sink.

      The model is INTEL SSDPEKNW512G8
      Not sure the drive is bad, I haven’t had any issues reading and writing when it stays cool.
      Nothing pops up here right now (I’ll run this again when the files go away):

      SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning:                   0x00
Temperature:                        27 Celsius
Available Spare:                    100%
Available Spare Threshold:          10%
Percentage Used:                    15%
Data Units Read:                    81,612,542 [41.7 TB]
Data Units Written:                 84,328,422 [43.1 TB]
Host Read Commands:                 1,451,227,797
Host Write Commands:                1,629,160,090
Controller Busy Time:               40,573
Power Cycles:                       1,648
Power On Hours:                     16,681
Unsafe Shutdowns:                   96
Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
Error Information Log Entries:      10
Warning  Comp. Temperature Time:    0
Critical Comp. Temperature Time:    0
Thermal Temp. 1 Transition Count:   338
Thermal Temp. 1 Total Time:         2915
  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    It’s dying, overheating, or both. If it’s overheating, you’ll need to cool it, by slapping a heatsink on it, probably. You’ll get better results by taking it out of the case.