Hii, I have a 2TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD installed on my media server. It was purchased from TE 6-8 months back.
It was working just fine for me, but this morning I got ‘I/O error’ and unable to read data from this SSD. Data that was stored on this SSD is not that important for me. I have not yet rebooted my mini pc.
Host OS is Debian 13 and using mergerfs to combine multiple storage into single mount point.
The NVME controller has failed. You can see the kernel sees the NVMe namespace as 0B and marks it dead.
Which is why in the second pic you’re getting fuse.read: attempt to access beyond end of device errors.
The Scrutiny report in last pic says “PASSED” because your SSD’s NAND chips are fine - 0 bad sectors and 100% spare area.
Not sure if it can be repaired. May the storage gods be with you!!
Whom did you buy it from btw? Did you try upgrading firmware recently?
Nice to hear that. Not sure if this is the calm before the storm. But backup that data asap and try to reproduce the error. Hopefully it’s a software one.
I have also triggered ‘force recheck’ in qBittorrent to verify the integrity of the movies stored on this SSD. Once recheck is done, I will rsync to an external hdd.
@desi_gamer Do you have any suggestions to test the reliability of this SSD?
One thing I noticed is that the power-on hours for this SSD increases very slowly. For ref, when I got this SSD, it had 17 days of power-on hours, and now, after more than six months of use, it has increased only to 33 days. My mini pc is running 24/7 except when there is a power cut.
Maybe the ssd wanted your comfort and attention in this chilly wingter. And then sometimes the contacts needs to be cleaned. Same happens with sata drives. All of a sudden one fine day it will frighten you as if the drive is in her final moments but the moment you swap the cables and clean the pins things brighten up.
