Is this a hardware defect? The drive (PNY CS3140 1TB) is only about 5 weeks old. It seems to fix itself after a couple of reboots, but it's very annoying. Linux doesn't seem to have any issues with it yet.

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[–] fell@ma.fellr.net 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

@BananaTrifleViolin Good idea. The M.2 slot was left unpopulated for years before I added this drive. It's possible that some dust got in there causing a connection issue.

I re-seated it and wiggled it around a bit to ensure any dust between the contacts got out of the way. It's being properly recognised now, but we'll see for how long.

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You can power it off, unplug it, remove the drive, and use a small clean and dry paint brush to ensure there is no dust in there.

Since it is happening with Windows and Linux you may be looking at a bad drive. It would make sense to RMA it.

[–] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You can use ipa if you pull the cmos battery (backup your bios settings first)

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 1 points 4 days ago

I would only do that if it was grimy. Dust would normally brush off. If OP smokes or anything like that then rubbing alcohol would be appropriate.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Did you remember the standoff?

[–] fell@ma.fellr.net 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

@Thorry84 Yes, of course.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 2 points 4 days ago

Excellent! Just checking.

When I got an extra SSD for my system I spent an hour looking through bags of screws to find the correct standoff.