I got my new PC for about 3 or 4 months. Today, I was using my PC as usual and suddenly everything stopped reacting. Rebooting just boots be into the UEFI interface. Which is very concerning.

Then I got a liveusb to look into what’s happening. Upon using smartctl. It shows that my SSD have 0% spare capacity despite only writing 15TB to it.

So far, I knew that Samsung’s EVO 980 and 990 SSDs have a firmware bug that can cause this. But this is the 1st time I know of 970 Pros having this issue.

I know there’s a lot of servers using consumer drives for their system. Be careful and check if you are using a 970. If so, check the spare capacity RIGHT NOW and decided if to upgrade the firmware or RMA the product.

  • clehaxze@reddthat.comOP
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    1 year ago

    Can you check your spare capacity? Run smartctl -a /dev/nvme<id>

    Also which FS are you using? I have switched to BTRFS root partition to catch these errors as early as I can.