Appreciate it! Sorry to hear about your drives failing as well, you have my condolences, not a good feeling, that's for sure!
EXPIRED $50: 1.9TB Micron 9200 Pro with Adapter
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I’m more annoyed that they failed the way they did more than anything as luckily all I had on it at that point was just my steam library and other things that were very easy to reproduce so absolutely no data loss. I was prepared for it given that it was a RAID0 but even then I expected 1 maybe 2 drive failures. Not 3 out of 4.
Are you able to put the drive in a hotswap bay or external enclosure post boot to try to see if it shows different behavior?
Are you able to put the drive in a hotswap bay or external enclosure post boot to try to see if it shows different behavior?
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It's very astonishing that they'd go kaputz like that, I personally haven't seen any other enterprise drives fail in such quick succession as to raise flags.
The behavior, physically, is essentially the same, the green and orange LED's light up and flicker as usual, but that's about it.
I don't have any bays or enclosures to test it out on, and I'm not very confident that they'd allow any functionality at this point, as the M.2 adapter it had shipped with allows my desktop to boot just fine when the drive is unplugged.
Regardless, I've re-inserted it post-boot in my linux driver f, and it was still not detected after the fact.
I shall attempt to upgrade the firmware as you've done before and I will let you know if anything changes, if the drive is recognized at all that is.
What temps are we seeing? This thing runs stoopid hot and nothing I've tried fixes that. I've poked at it with hdparm, smartctl, nvme-cli, and directly poking it from the PCI device angle. No dice. Never a low-power mode, no D3cold, no DIPM.
I'm wondering if a component inside this thing is overheating due to lack of server-style strong front-to-back airflow. The temp sensors perhaps do not capture this pathology. This is with direct airflow across the heatsink from underneath:
Numbers are a bit high but not destructively so. It's acting fine so far but I'm getting a little worried. I honestly can't recommend this drive given the high heat and lack of power management.
I'm wondering if a component inside this thing is overheating due to lack of server-style strong front-to-back airflow. The temp sensors perhaps do not capture this pathology. This is with direct airflow across the heatsink from underneath:
Numbers are a bit high but not destructively so. It's acting fine so far but I'm getting a little worried. I honestly can't recommend this drive given the high heat and lack of power management.
It does look like there are some power components placed directly behind those little front vents, you can only get airflow through those with high static pressure suction on the connector end of the drive.
The question is how to duplicate this in a desktop. We need some kind of shroud that envelopes the front -- one with a fan mount to force-feed air into those 3-4mm wide slots. Everyone's cooling solutions look great for the heatsink underneath but... airflow through the enclosure?
Mine is mounted vertically, nose up / cables down so [hopefully] there's some stack-effect air convection, even if backwards.
I should sell this [drive] and try something else.
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I tried to improve the cooling on a Shuttle DH370 and had the same problem. No matter where or how I mounted extra fans it made no difference. finally decided that a shroud that forced air in was the way to go but decided not to bother. I figured that the older it got the cheaper the CPU will be so if I burned one or two up I'd just replace them. Hopefully the rest of the systems will survive. Seems like cooling is an after thought in consumer PCs, those who push them hard will always be looking for a cooling solution.
In my case the fan below has an opening which is 3/4 covered by the drive itself. Due to that it causes negative pressure on the back of the drive hence sucking the air 
And apparently it "sucks well"
Regarding the noise, actually the machine is not noisy at all considering how many HDDs and SSDs i have there.
And apparently it "sucks well" Regarding the noise, actually the machine is not noisy at all considering how many HDDs and SSDs i have there.
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You should be worried, not that I know what a healthy temperature should be, but your temps are the exact same as mine and I thought it wasn't an issue, and kept using it without adequate cooling, now I have a dead drive. The controller is detected with lspcie, and I'll try using testdisk as a hail mary in the off chance it's corruption and not a hardware failure.
I'm going on the unproved conspiracy laden hypothesis that the 9200 has had numerous heat output issues during R&D, that were then solved in the next generation of enterprise SSD. It's the black sheep of the micron family, once again, no proof, but I do have to contact a data recovery sect to get as much data back as possible, so many MP3's...and the price was really good, too good.
Anyone recovered their SSD data with Louis Rossman's services?
So mines were in a HighPoint SSD6540 enclosure that would have generated an alert if the temperature broke 65 C and it never did. In fact the current replacement array in it is only 30 C (granted they are different manufacturer).