Hello,
My KDE Neon has crashed 2 times this week and has now (I believe) completely crashed my drive (nvme ssd).
Here is how it went both times : I open Obsidian (note taking app) and after few minutes the app freezes. Few seconds later, the desktop freeze, and again some seconds after whole PC can’t move.
The first time, I waited 3 minutes or so and then forced-shutdown the system. After rebooting, It want to GRUB. After some search I was able to go back to the boot process.
The second time exactly the same. Except when I try rebooting, it went to the BIOS. It is as if I do not have drives.
I tried installing it in another machine and it was visible as 2gb drive (normally 1Tb).
Here are some commands I used on windows to help see the state of my drive.
(The Samsung SSD 990 EVO is my windows drives)
The “corrupted” drive is originally GAMMIX S70 BLADE 1To
Get-Disk | Format-Table Number, FriendlyName, SerialNumber, Size, PartitionStyle, OperationalStatus
Number FriendlyName SerialNumber Size PartitionStyle OperationalStatus ------ ------------ ------------ ---- -------------- ----------------- 0 MN-5236 SSD-5236 2147483648 RAW Online
Samsung SSD 990 EVO 1TB 0025_3829_41A1_4A2E. 1000204886016 GPT Online
Get-PhysicalDisk | Format-Table FriendlyName, SerialNumber, MediaType, Size, HealthStatus, OperationalStatus
FriendlyName SerialNumber MediaType Size HealthStatus OperationalStatus ------------ ------------ --------- ---- ------------ ----------------- Samsung SSD 990 EVO 1TB 0025_3829_41A1_4A2E. SSD 1000204886016 Healthy OK MN-5236 SSD-5236 SSD 2147483648 Healthy OK
Get-PhysicalDisk | Get-StorageFirmwareInformation
ObjectId : {1}\\DESKTOP\root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/Providers_v2\SPACES_StorageReliabilityCounter.ObjectId=“{b19300f5-bfc6-11ef-af61-806e6f6e6963}:RC:{5ff82bf1-a9cd-74af-caf8-12c229b4ed4c}” PassThroughClass : PassThroughIds : PassThroughNamespace : PassThroughServer : UniqueId : {b19300f5-bfc6-11ef-af61-806e6f6e6963}:RC:{5ff82bf1-a9cd-74af-caf8-12c229b4ed4c} DeviceId : 1 FlushLatencyMax : 1 LoadUnloadCycleCount : LoadUnloadCycleCountMax : ManufactureDate : PowerOnHours : ReadErrorsCorrected : ReadErrorsTotal : ReadErrorsUncorrected : ReadLatencyMax : 1461 StartStopCycleCount : StartStopCycleCountMax : Temperature : 35 TemperatureMax : 85 Wear : 0 WriteErrorsCorrected : WriteErrorsTotal : WriteErrorsUncorrected : WriteLatencyMax : 71 PSComputerName :
ObjectId : {1}\\DESKTOP\root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/Providers_v2\SPACES_StorageReliabilityCounter.ObjectId=“{b19300f5-bfc6-11ef-af61-806e6f6e6963}:RC:{9641ee66-e384-6333-a0c1-24be4f75e6fd}” PassThroughClass : PassThroughIds : PassThroughNamespace : PassThroughServer : UniqueId : {b19300f5-bfc6-11ef-af61-806e6f6e6963}:RC:{9641ee66-e384-6333-a0c1-24be4f75e6fd} DeviceId : 0 FlushLatencyMax : LoadUnloadCycleCount : LoadUnloadCycleCountMax : ManufactureDate : PowerOnHours : ReadErrorsCorrected : ReadErrorsTotal : ReadErrorsUncorrected : ReadLatencyMax : 6 StartStopCycleCount : StartStopCycleCountMax : Temperature : 0 TemperatureMax : 0 Wear : 0 WriteErrorsCorrected : WriteErrorsTotal : WriteErrorsUncorrected : WriteLatencyMax : PSComputerName :
smartctl -a /dev/sda
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Number: MN-5236 Serial Number: SSD-5236 Firmware Version: 2.0.0.3 PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID: 0x1dbe IEEE OUI Identifier: 0x000000 Controller ID: 0 NVMe Version: <1.2 Number of Namespaces: 1 Namespace 1 Size/Capacity: 2 147 483 648 [2,14 GB] Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size: 4096 Local Time is: Sun Mar 15 20:41:07 2026 PM Firmware Updates (0x12): 1 Slot, no Reset required Optional Admin Commands (0x0004): Frmw_DL Maximum Data Transfer Size: 32 Pages Warning Comp. Temp. Threshold: 87 Celsius Critical Comp. Temp. Threshold: 100 Celsius Supported Power States St Op Max Active Idle RL RT WL WT Ent_Lat Ex_Lat 0 + 0.30W - - 0 0 0 0 5 5 1 - 0.0050W - - 1 1 1 1 2000 22000 Supported LBA Sizes (NSID 0x1) Id Fmt Data Metadt Rel_Perf 0 + 4096 0 2 === START OF SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02, NSID 0xffffffff) Critical Warning: 0x00 Temperature: - Available Spare: 0% Available Spare Threshold: 0% Percentage Used: 0% Data Units Read: 0 Data Units Written: 0 Host Read Commands: 0 Host Write Commands: 0 Controller Busy Time: 0 Power Cycles: 0 Power On Hours: 0 Unsafe Shutdowns: 0 Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0 Error Information Log Entries: 0 Warning Comp. Temperature Time: 0 Critical Comp. Temperature Time: 0 Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 1 of 1 entries) No Errors Logged Self-tests not supported
Also joining CrystalDiskInfo screen from the drive.
I send all this to chatgpt, it tells me the storage is okay but the nvme controller is completly dead.
If any of you can tell me definitively if my drive is dead (I don’t care for the files in it, at this point if I can get the drive it’s all good).
Thanks