Questions tagged [nvme]
NVMe is a communications interface/protocol developed specially for SSDs (Solid State Drives).
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Unable to install GRUB in /dev/nvme
I booted from a live usb and installed 15.10 but at the end of the installation process, I get an error:
Unable to install GRUB in /dev/nvme.
Next, it gives the option to change where the ...
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How to check serial number of NVMe disk?
How to check serial number of NVMe disk?
To check serial number for sda and sdb I used:
sudo lsblk --raw -o name,type,serial
However it does not work for NVMe disks (nvme0n0, nvme0n1 etc). No ...
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How can I check the NVME specs
How can I check the specs of the installed NVME other than lshw which only shows the brand. I am looking to know the model and voltage/power.
Moreover, is there anything one should know before buying ...
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"initramfs" error on boot ONLY on Dell XPS 13 (boots fine on other computer)
Been struggling with this for a few days now. I am an absolutely green and non-technical Ubuntu user (I like it for it's lightweight/malware-free nature).
I repaired a hinge in the laptop that ...
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How do I setup a self-encrypting Opal 2.0 SSD?
I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04.1 on a Lenovo ThinkPad L480 with an Opal 2.0 compatible NVMe SSD inside. As far as I understand, the drive is always encrypted, but I need to set a password so ...
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How to *secure erase* a NVMe SSD
Since SSD has write amplification, I want to reset the SSD to the initial out-of-box performance. Most tutorials are for SATA SSD (hdparm --secure-erase), I want to know how to erase a partition of ...
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Why are writes on an NVME slower under Linux than under Windows?
I am using a 970 EVO 1TB NVME SSD (2500MB/s SLC-Cached (1200MB/s TLC)) and a MX300 SATA SSD in my system.
After running some benchmarks I realized that the NVME SSD is not as fast as I hoped it would ...
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After Ubuntu 22.04 upgrade NTFS is read only problem?
I have a NTFS partition. Before upgrading to Ubuntu 22.04, it was working perfectly and I could read/write/delete files with no problem.
However, after upgrading I can only read the disk and it says ...
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SSD slow write speed on Ubuntu
I installed Samsung nvme 960 ssd on my laptop a few days ago which has max write speed up to 1500MB/s. Performance improved greatly but writing speed max at 600MB/s when I test benchmark with Disk ...
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identify M.2 SSD from BASH Script
I am writing an installation automation BASH script. I'd like to install the nvme-cli package only if an NVMe SSD is actually present.
I couldn't find a simple way to query the hardware (say, using ...
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How to know if my NVMe SSD needs TRIM
Running Ubuntu 22.04 on my main laptop. I am using 4TB TEAMGROUP MP34 NVMe as my main drive. The file system is ext4.
Yesterday (Nov 16), while downloading some large files (about 300 files, 600GB ...
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Very poor NVME performance
I first installed Windows and ran a benchmark on the samsung 950 Pro, and saw 2700 MBps read speed. I did this to confirm that the motherboard could use the full x4 lanes with NVME on the boot device.
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New USB NVMe drive does not show up in lsblk, dmesg says 'Unit Not Ready', Any Suggestions?
I've got a Brand New ORICO TCM3-C3 NVMe M.2 SSD enclosure which I am using with a WD Blue WDS500G2B0B-00YS70 500Gb NVMe ssd (also new)
When I plug it in I get the usual ping of a USB device being ...
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18.04 and 18.10 fail to boot nvme0: failed to set APST feature (-19)
I’m a relatively new Ubuntu user and I’ve bought a new laptop for developing. However, I’ve had a whole host of problems trying to get it working with Ubuntu. I’ve agonised over this for nearly two ...
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Virtualbox Windows 10 guest cannot boot from NVMe
I have the latest Virtualbox 5.2.18 in a Ubuntu 18.04.1. I have a guest system Windows 10. I have a vmdk hard drive ( virtual drive) saved in a SSD disk ( the file .vmdk.
So i have recently upgraded ...
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NVMe SSD slow write speed
I have a NUC (BEH model) and a M.2 SSD PCIe gen3 NMVe card (Samsung 970 pro 512GB) and I have a slow and fast write speed result in Ubuntu 18.04.3 with two different kernels. I used ukuu for kernel ...
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Booting a NVMe drive
Note: this is kind of follow-up of this post: https://superuser.com/questions/1318478/booting-nvme-drive-with-a-bootloader, but I decided to post here since I'm trying to install and boot Ubuntu.
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Kernel 4.11 (rc) on Ubuntu 16.04.2
I have a Dell XPS 13 (9360) running Ubuntu 16.04.2
This machine has an NVME SSD drive which seems to draw much more power on Linux than on Windows since it cannot go to lower power states. Also, it ...
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18.04 or 19.04 on Samsung NVMe SSD → Bus errors
Beforehand:
Did update BIOS (MB: Asus Z390-F)
Did update NVMe SSD firmware (Samsung 970 EVO Plus, 500G)
Did run memtest86 for hours (after the problems happened: is OK)
CPU is Intel i5-9400 providing ...
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How to get the temperature using hddtemp for a Samsung SSD/NVMe in Thinkpad T480
I try to read my SSD/NVMe temp in my T480. Therefore I want to use hddtemp as it runs as daemon in the background.
Debugging hddtemp I get the following:
sudo hddtemp /dev/nvme0n1 --debug
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How to extend the root partition in Ubuntu 18.04
I have the following situation:
Where I would like to extend the size of nvme0n1 from 8GB to 78 GB using the command line.
Adding also fdisk as requested in comments:
Any help is appreciated.
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WD (Sandisk) NVMe M.2 stick not quite working
To be clear, I expected trouble. The computer is an old HP Z820 (certainly no BIOS support for NVMe) with the latest 2018 BIOS update. The stick is a new(-ish?) Western Digital (Sandisk) model:
WD ...
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NVMe Error Log Increases but not further information is given
Since a few days I get the hard disk health warning that the error log increased from X to Y (see code below). The error log increases after every reboot of the notebook or wake from hibernation. ...
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Slow NVMe speed on new install
I've just setup an HP z230 Xeon E3 1225 v3 machine with an HP TurboDrive G1, with a Seagate Firecuda NVMe SSD. I was expecting 2-3000MB/s read speeds, but am seeing way less than that. I don't care ...
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grub2 not detecting pci-e nvme disk (in GRUB command line) old BIOs motherboard
I have an old motherboard that doesn't support nvme boot. I've connected nvme disk using a pci-e expansion card.
NVME is detected in windows and Linux when booted up from old HDD.
Since my ...
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Mounting a drive is chaotic with the two NVMe SSD drives
My new computer has two NVMe SSD chips. Both are on the motherboard (no PCIe cards involved). On one of them there's the operating system and the other is for large data storage. For that, I wrote ...
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Nvme faulty drive? SMART Error Information Log Entries fastly increasing
Running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
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, ...
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NVME can't see S.M.A.R.T. in gnome-disk-utility
I am using Ubuntu Mate 16.04. I bought an nvme ssd (Intel 600p) and am no longer able to view SMART data through gnome-disk-utility.
I was able to see SMART using my old SATA ssd through this ...
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/dev/nvme0n1p2: [ 4.772818] Bluetooth: hci0: Malformed MSFT vendor event: 0x02
Goal: Boot to GUI Login.
Had warnings of disk being almost full. Deleted some conda venvs and docker images. Crashed immediately upon executing run of docker image.
Error at Bootup:
[ 0.453097] ACPI ...
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NVMe partitions, dev/loop partitions?
I'm using an NVMe drive, but I don't understand what all these dev/loops- partitions are. Should I do something about it, or is this perfectly normal?
df -h
Filsystem Størrelse Brukt Tilgj. ...
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failed to set APST feature (2) on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Since I update my ubuntu to 22.04 LTS, I get these errors during boot:
Jun 13 14:37:55 ubuntu kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Failure creating named object [\_SB.PCI0.XHC.RHUB.HS01._UPC], ...
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NVME Disk failure causing boot partition corruption, bad-superblock error
I recently installed Ubuntu 18.04 Server on the nvme drive of a PC. During installation, I chose to use GPT and EXT4. After operating normally for a few weeks, the system had a disk failure, and then ...
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GParted not showing M.2 NVMe SSD [duplicate]
I just bought an Acer Aspire 7 and I installed a 250Gb M.2 NVMe SSD to use as the boot source. I wanted to check that the SSD was working so I opened Disks and GParted, but neither of them show the ...
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Computer does not support booting to a NVMe SSD
I have a Dell Optiplex 3040MT which runs Ubuntu 19.04 from an HDD via UEFI. I installed a NVMe SSD through a PCIe card adapter; Ubuntu sees it and I have R/W acccess. I want to use the SSD as my main ...
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How to manually create an EFI System Partition in Ubuntu 24.04 during installation
Finally available, I downloaded the latest 24.04 LTS Desktop ISO and tried to install it on a test machine. I always choose to manually partition the drive, so I can create separate partitions for the ...
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Unknown error on Micron NVME disk
Recently I installed Xubuntu 22.04.1 on a system that contains a Micron MTFDHBA512QFD NVMe disk.
The last line on the smartctl -a report is the following:
Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 256 ...
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Moving entire installation to a new hard drive
This question is probably super common, but my situation might not be :) let's see..
I have a PC tower running as a home server using Ubuntu server 20.04 LTS (NAS, minecraft, etc random stuff). I want ...
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EXT4-fs (nvme1n1p1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
I just want to mount my nvme-ssd to /mnt/ssd-high-NVMe
$ sudo rm -rf /mnt/ssd-high-NVMe
$ sudo rm -rf /mnt/ssd-high-NVME
$ sudo mkdir /mnt/ssd-high-NVMe
$ sudo mkdir /mnt/ssd-high-NVME
$ ls -lh
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PCIe NVMe can't resume from sleep
I recently replaced my NVMe PCIe Intel 660 with a WD SN750 512GB and simultaneously installed a fresh Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS as the only OS with UEFI boot. Whenever the system sleeps and then I wake it ...
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TRIM on Samsung NVMe
Not sure if I properly unterstand they way TRIM on SSD is supposed to work. According to lspci I've got the following device: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller SM981/PM981. It shows up as ...
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NVMe SSD not visible in disk utilities when install Ubuntu 18.10 on macbook 2018
As the title says I'm trying to install Ubuntu on a MacBook 2018.
I installed reFind. Ubuntu boots properly when I set nomodeset in the kernel options.
Once the desktop loaded I do lspci -k but no ...
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Intel RST on ubuntu for NVME (not sata/ahci)
Plenty of questions surrounding this and people say switch to ahci. That would be awesome, but my nvme evo 980s don't have ahci options in the asus rog bios on the wifi gaming d4. AHCI is a sata only ...
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How to enable SED (self encrypted disk) on Samsung 980 pro (NVMe)
I am setting up a brand new laptop (Tuxedo Infinitybook 14 Pro). The drive is an NVMe Samsung 980 Pro SSD. This drive is supposed to support AES Self encryption.
Previously, I was using ATA drives (...
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What's causing my "No space for directory leaf checksum" error?
I have a new Ubuntu 20.04 HPE DL360 Gen10 server to replace an old 16.04 HPE DL360 Gen9 server for running Graphite and Grafana. The old server had a 2 TB hardware RAID10 (4 x 1 TB SSDs) ext4 ...
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Should I be worried about this nvme error-log output?
I ran the nvme error-log /dev/nvme0 command on the terminal. One of the entries gave this output
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Entry[ 7]
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error_count : 18446744069579341823
sqid : ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 fail to recognize my second nvme ssd
I've just purchased a second NVMe SSD for my laptop(which has dual m.2 slots both support nvme), planning to install ubuntu 18.04 onto it alongside windows 10 (which is installed on the first ssd).
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Server 18.04 install on NVMe?
I just got an NVMe in my machine that I using as a server, but I can't seem to get 18.04 installed. It crashes during the installation, as 17.10.4 does as well, that later crashes when it is trying to ...
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NVMe disk configured in RAID0 unable to install Ubuntu 16.04
I've tried to install Ubuntu 16.04 on my Asus ROG G752VY in dual boot with windows 10. The problem is that Asus ROG G752VY has a PCI Express SSD configured in RAID0 and Ubuntu is not able to see it.
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How to determine from command line if NVMe slot is gen 3 or gen 4?
The goal is to determine if a Gen-4 NVMe is supported (Gen-4 bandwidth) in a Dell 3090 micro i3 10105T (Comet Lake).
NVMe slot is vacant
SATA Drive outfitted with OSX and Ubuntu
How to determine ...
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Boot loop after installing Ubuntu 18.04 alongside Windows 10
I have a Dell G3 3590 laptop with Core i5 9300H CPU, GTX 1650 GPU and 8GB RAM. I have Windows 10 installed on my 256GB SSD and I have another 1TB HDD in my laptop, so I partitioned 300GB of the HDD ...
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