Almost exactly a year ago after having my secondary NVMe unmount randomly, beginning as an infrequent occurrence and ending with it being completely unusable. I have now had the same thing happen to me again, this time a on a completely new drive and from a completely different brand. (previous drive was a Kingston NV2 and the new one a WD Black SSD SN770)
The conclusion before the re:occurrence was that this was a unlucky draw from the silicon lottery. But now that it has happened to two different drives, mounted on the exact same motherboard NVMe slot, on the same install of EndevourOS.
Could this be a software issue or is my motherboard killing my drives?
edit 1: It shows up normally right now and unmounts as soon as I try updating Marvel Rivals a game I have downloaded on my main drive.
That’d be where I start investigating. It could be a motherboard physical or firmware fault, or it could be environmental, such as a contact issue, or temperature.
Have been looking at your BIOS with version 36d, on the Gigabyte site I couldn’t find a 36d bios version, so maybe it was a Beta? Anyway the BIOS is somewhat outdated, a update might or might not solve your problem, and I guess if there is a serious problem with the motherboard, the update might fail, but at least you know where you are at.
I’ve been sick for the last couple days but finally managed to to get the time to update the BIOS. But it still just unmounts my drive as soon as i update a steam game stored on the secondary drive.
Managed to find someone on the manjaro forums who seems to have had a similar problem but no solution seems to have been found.
edit: If it’s faulty hardware destroying my drives, what hardware would be the cause/need to be changed.
If I understand right your inxi-output, you’re driving all your nvme’s as SSD (-serial), not native nvme (don’t just remember the correct name)?
Did you check in your MoBo-manual, if there is some shared port (nvme/SATA) like in mine MoBo?
And do you some over-/undervolting or overclocking?
Furthermore in the c’t magazine they wrote, sometimes the nvme’s get too hot in some MoBo’s because the fan(s) are too poor?
Some idea’s only…
Not touched overclocking (except enabling XMP)
The sata drive you see is not connected by default because its a windows boot disk for playing Fortnite with my younger cousins.