Questions tagged [nvme]
NVMe is a communications interface/protocol developed specially for SSDs.
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nvme performance difference (OS dependent)
My laptop has two nvme drives:
WDC PC SN730 SDBPNTY-512G-1101 (512GB)
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus (1TB)
I guess I have performance issue under Linux Mint 21.1 (5.15.0-56-generic). To determine ...
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Win10 x64 StorNVMe Flooding DebugView?
All of a sudden I'm getting flooded in DebugView with a loop of this information:
587615937500 - STORMINI: StorNVMe - POWER: Setting F-state idle timeout to 200ms
587617968750 - STORMINI: StorNVMe - ...
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Manjaro won‘t recognise nvme ssd
So I tried to dual boot with 2 nvme ssds however manjaro won’t recognise my 2nd nvme ssd.
In fact it won’t recognise any. I tried reformating it’s file system into pretty much everything and also ...
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Windows 10 not recognizing my second NVME drive
I recently installed a second NVME SSD drive and can't get Windows to recognize it. My setup looks like this:
System: AsRock X470 Taichi, Ryzen 5 2600X CPU
C: - 250 GB Samsung 970
EVO (M2_1 slot)
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Do virtual machine snapshots shorten the life of SSDs?
A long while ago, I read that HDDs should be preferred over SSDs for virtual machine workloads because frequent snapshot creation and deletion would shorten the life of the SSD. I'm a developer and I ...
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Windows 10 laptop > Reset this PC > now stuck in boot loop
TLDR: This laptop is a Dell Latitude 5420 with an NVMe SSD drive -- and apparently Windows has lost the driver for that drive? It can't boot, and I can't (re)install Windows on it without that driver....
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MSI B550-A Pro Motherboard Inquiry
Can the MSI B550-A Pro Motherboard take a Samsung 980 Pro 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD?
I have the motherboard and the NVMe drive in front of me, but do not see any ports/slots on the board where this SSD drive ...
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Can GRUB access an NVMe drive when the BIOS lacks support for it?
An NVMe drive can be installed in a computer whose BIOS doesn't have support for it; any running OS can still access it using drivers, it just cannot be used as a boot drive. Does GRUB have the ...
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Difference between modprobe and pci files to remove add devices
I am trying to see how these two set of commands differ if I just have one nvme device.
Block device
ls -l /sys/block/nvme0n1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Apr 28 11:59 /sys/block/nvme0n1 -> ../devices/...
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I can't boot from USB on my Asrock Steel Legend X570
I recently replaced my NVMe on my system. Before I replaced the NVMe, I used Windows Media Installer to create a bootable USB stick. Everything went perfectly. After I finished replacing NVMe, my BIOS ...
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Which is newer firmware, and how could I update mine?
I have an NVMe SSD: SAMSUNG MZ9LQ1T0HBLB-00B00.
My firmware on it is: "FXM7601Q".
However I have seen people in forums with the same SSD with firmware of "FXM7AK1Q".
I tried to ...
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Is 100 Celsius considered too high for an NVMe during filecopy?
I have a Samsung PM991a NVMe SSD, and during idle it's pretty cool (around room-temperature).
However, during filecopy (10ish GB total size), it gets pretty warm (ie. HOT):
Is 100 °C considered too ...
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NVMe PCIe SSD using 2 lanes instead of 4
I recently installed an WD Blue SN570 500GB NVMe SSD in my HP laptop and I did a benchmark test in crystal disk software and got 1700MBps read speed but this SSD supports 3500MBps.
When I checked in ...
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Can You Help me Understand This M.2 SATA NVMe PCIe SSD Gen 3/4 x34 x64 4x4 Nonsense?
So right off the bat I'll say that I'm a Software Engineer and I've been building computers for decades (up until 5-6 years ago) so I am technology literate, however trying to understand these new ...
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Unable to create a bootable partition on NVME drive
Booting Windows off M.2 NVMe doesn’t work even though it is recognized by the BIOS on a dual boot machine
I was delighted when I found the above answer explaining how to create a boot partition, as ...
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New SSD not recognised by new laptop
I have just bought a new laptop (an Acer Swift 314-512-56QM) with the intention of upgrading the SSD with one the I already own (an Adata XPG SX8200 Pro - 2TB). However the replacement drive is not ...
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Is it possible to migrate a bootable NVMe SSD to a different one via a dd image?
I have a Linux Mint installation on a M.2 NVMe SSD in a laptop.
I'd like to move this installation to a new laptop with a fresh SSD.
Is it possible to create an image using dd on the old laptop and dd ...
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nvme m.2 SSD stopped booting Windows 10 after 1 year of working fine. How to get Windows to boot again without reinstalling?
For background, I did not update any software in the recent days. I did not have any power outages. I did not make any changes to my computer. I didn't update Windows and had windows updates turned ...
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NVMe faulty drive? SMART Error Information Log Entries fastly increasing
The Error Information Log Entries value showed by smartctl -a /dev/nvme0n1 in my NVMe is growing fast, by 1 per second. Is it indicative of a faulty driver?
At the same time, Media and Data Integrity ...
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Blank screen on a cloned nvme drive boot
Problem: A cloned hdd to a nvme drive with a Windows 10 system, on a Lenovo Y700 15ISK laptop boots into a blank screen. After pressing ctrl+alt+del it restarts and then Lenovo logo appears and it ...
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Second nvme missing in /dev/ after kernel upgrade
I have been pushing back my kernel upgrades on my arch machine because after upgrading from 5.14.9 my secondary nvme is not populated into /dev/ anymore.
But I want to tackles this now, hopefully with ...
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Clone LUKS encrypted SSD to NVME (slightly different size)
I bought a same sized NVME as my previous SSD to clone it.
I mean I thought they were of the same size. Both are supposed to be 1 TB discs.
I did:
sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/nvme1n1 bs=64K conv=sync,...
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SMART error on disk used with ZFS and mdadm
For some time now I've been getting emails like the following after every time I reboot my workstation (which is called 'charm').
Subject: SMART error (ErrorCount) detected on host: charm
This ...
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What is an NVMe controller?
This question may sound trivial but it isn't.
Take a look at this image.
You can see Windows device manager listing NVMe controllers. I expected it to list NVMe disks but not controllers.
It does not ...
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NVMe M.2 SSD missing after a windows update reboot + slow booting time since
I have 2 x 970 EVO Samsung NVMe M2 SSD on my motherboard.
The first one is where windows is installed on and it's working fine.
The second one is the one (now) missing that I use as a normal storage ...
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Why is NVMe better than ATA?
SATA M.2 SSDs use SATA on the physical layer and ATA as software protocol for data transmission.
NVMe M.2 SSDs use PCIe on the physical layer and NVMe as software protocol for data transmission.
I was ...
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Understanding M.2 protocols
(Some things I say in this question are false. Don't forget to read the accepted answer.)
First I want to say that there is no SATA software protocol for data transmission. SATA CD drives, SATA HDDs ...
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Unbearable slow with high-end built desktop
I have a recent build with an ASUS Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE Motherboard, AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5975WX Processor, 512GB of RAM, and 4TB NVME Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus, but it is unbearably slow.
My ...
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Freshly install windows 10 when you can't access BIOS
After a botched install of windows 10 due to the system fan failing, I've been unable to access the BIOS, as the recovery short cut doesn't work. Is there any way to force the laptop to boot from a ...
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Strange NVME Drive Behaviour with Arch/Windows 11 Dual Boot
I've got two nvme drives in my system, one with Arch on it, and the other with Win11 on it. Both operating systems share an EFI partition on the Arch drive.
I've noticed that the Windows drive ...
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Windows 11 Setup does not recognize NVMe drive in ASUS laptop S513E
I am trying to install Windows 11 on ASUS VivoBook S513E (11th gen Intel) BIOS states the SSD is NVMe Micron 2210 MT
I've downloaded the official drivers from ASUS and unpacked them to their folders:
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What are the 3 temperatures (composite and sensor) reported by a WD_BLACK SN770 NVMe?
I have a WD_BLACK SN770 SSD NVMe that may be running too hot under load.
So to monitor it, I installed Western Digital Dashboard and it reports 3 temperatures:
Libre Hardware Monitor reports 3 ...
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NVMe ssd life expectancy
I have a samsung NVMe SSD 500GB that has a warranty of 100TB.
My application reads and writes 300G~500GB daily.
should I be worried about the drive faulting out after the 100TB warranty?
Is there a ...
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NVME boot drive will boot from bios not from startup
Windows 11. Samsung 980PRO. Windows installed in UEFI mode. When startup, will just hang and never error or boot. Turn off, turn back on. Bios says failed last time, hit F1 to run setup. Select ...
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Cloned Windows 10 won't boot
Issue: Windows 10 clones to same disk/different SSD won't boot.
Why: I've got a M.2 NVMe with the following structure:
300 MB Recovery Partition
100 MB EFI System Partition
Windows 8.1
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How to determine if there is a support for NVMe
I have Acer Aspire 3 A315-53G, I want to upgrade my laptop with m.2 SSD. There is a slot for it but the manual of laptop doesn't provide any info on it, I asked official support but the answers are ...
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Vsphere 8.0 4k block size NVMeoF register device fail
I have encounter a NVMe-oF problem.
I have tried to use NVMe-oF drive with 4K block size through TCP as datastore.
And after doing command "esxcli nvme fabrics connect -a -i <ip_addresses> ...
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windows11 installation: can't read my storage - need storage driver
I want to install Windows 11 on my system. But it wants a storage driver and it can't read my storage (in partitioning level).
My storage is a Samsung MZVLQ1T0HBLB-00B00 nvme ssd (asus tuf dash f15).
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Is it possible to disable an M.2 SSD without physically unscrewing it?
I want to be able to "hide" the presence of my M.2 NVMe ssd. For example, it can be useful when experimenting with OS installation to experimental drive, and you want to be sure it wont ...
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SSD upgrade from M.2 SATA to NVME for Acer Aspire VX5-591G?
My laptop Acer Aspire VX5-591G-72DL came with following storage options -
128GB M.2 SATA SSD and
1TB HDD
Is it possible to upgrade the 128GB SATA SSD to a 1TB NVME SSD, preferably a Samsung EVO 970 ...
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Moving OSs from 1TB to 2TB
I have a 1TB nvme drive with windows and linux installed. The partitions look like this:
partitions
Now I would like to move both these operating systems to a 2TB nvme. How do I do this without ...
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Why am i being asked for my NVMe 1 Password?
I am using my work laptop which I got today. When I arrived home to turn it on I was presented with a screen asking me for my NVMe 1 password. I'm not sure how or why this has happened, the only ...
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Moving nonUEFI Ubuntu/Windows from SATA SSD to NvMe SSD
This question has already addresses but none of the solutions has worked. I replace my laptop from time to time. I even have a Clonezilla image that I restore to the new one. This approach had ran ...
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Unable to boot OS after assembling new PC. Keyboard and mouse stop working during 1st OS installation
I purchased Ryzen 3 3200g, Gigabyte A320 S2H motherboard, NVMe SSD and 8gb DDR4 RAM. After assembling everything I tried to boot from the USB flash drive. But on language selection screen in Windows 7,...
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Moving windows to another disk
I have a laptop that came with windows 11 home. The internal drive is 238.47GB nvme. It has 4 partitions, EFI, microsoft reserved, C drive, and windows recovery. I would like to move this windows ...
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Unable to figure out the type of SSD I have
SSD:
Can anyone please help me find out whether this SSD is SATA M.2 or NVMe?
Thanks
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Force Mount Samsung 970 SSD in linux
My OS NVME SSD drive went into "Read Only" mode once the "Available Spare" threshold was hit. The superblock seems to be bad, but I'm pretty sure most of the drive is otherwise OK....
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How to mirror remote external drive via file sharing in macOS?
I am trying to use an old iMac and NVMEs as a NAS and have it act as a local Google Drive on my Wi-Fi network.
The plan is as follows:
Get dual NVME enclosure and set it up as a RAID 1 drive on disk ...
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Unable to boot a fresh Windows 10 installation on M.2 NVMe
not sure where to ask this. Im struggling to boot/finish installation of Windows 10 on my SSD Crucial 500GB M.2 PCIe Gen4 NVMe P5 Plus - installed in slot M_2_3
MOBO: ASRock > B660 Pro RS
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PCIe link to NVMe drive downgrades to 2.5GT/s (PCIe 1.0) after writing data
I put a MKNSSDPL2TB-D8 NVMe drive in a Lenovo Thinkpad E595 laptop. When checking the speeds with dd, I noticed that they are not very good. It turns out that after the test,
the link speed was ...
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