#NVME SSD seems dead

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potent portal
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My Kingston NV1 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD that I had been using in my Thinkpad T490 is no longer being booted it from as it is giving the error '2101 detection error on hdd0' after the nvme weeks after it was transferred to my thinkpad from my desktop.

Note that this nvme had been used in my desktop for about 3 years, and I have taken a look at the SMART data on it recently when I was transferring it, and iirc it was around ~150TB written (or read, cannot remember too well). Unfortunately the 3 year warranty is out of my favour.

And so I moved the nvme to another system, besides another nvme that is 256GB. The Kingston nvme (the one from the thinkpad) was not being recognised when the other drives connected to it are identified in lsblk.

Out of curiousity, I compared the temperature of the two nvmes side by side, and noticed that the Kingston nvme was hotter than the other nvme beside it. I've been checking the temperatures between the two over the past 6 hours or so, and the kingston is still noticeably hotter.

I've read somewhere of peoples experience from the same thinkpad error having their thinkpad magically work again after a few months. Is my nvme undergoing some kind of repair internally? is that even a thing? why is my kingston nvme that is seemingly dead still warm but not recognised? what is it doing?

The other nvme that is besides the kingston nvme is an Intel SSDPEKKF256G8L.

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I would really hate to buy another ssd, and would love to keep stretching this poor thing until it reaches its end of life

potent portal
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decided to plug it back into my thinkpad, and now its working as if nothing ever happened after waiting out the insanely slow boot up time

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thinkpad froze trying to install an update, I think it might be dead now again moai

potent portal
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I just don't want to end up buying another nvme for that too also go dead on me

muted sparrow
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@potent portal Which model NVMe?

potent portal
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I checked if these diodes all over the board are shorted or not, but none of them are

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except for this guy, but I think that's an inductor rather than a diode right?

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the NANDs are cold but, the control chip is hot

muted sparrow
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I can't tell the difference between inductors, diodes or capacitors on these small ones.

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Windows 11 24H2 changed how the RAM cache works for storage (If it's DRAMless) which caused lots of issues with Sandisk and WD drives. Just checking your drive if there are any similar issues

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