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ppara5 · 01-12-2020

I currently run Linux via USB 3.0 on Intel hardware. All Intel and Crucial consumer SSDs I have tested run Linux fine. However, I have a 730 that complains about no bootable drive being present when I try to boot Linux after installing it. I suspect ...

ppara5 · 06-25-2019

I tried to use a 730, the first cousin of the S3500 DC, for Linux Mint in an external USB 3.0 enclosure. I tried two different enclosures which work for Linux with other SSDs, but after a successful installation and subsequent boot, I always received...

ppara5 · 06-20-2019

This question is a follow-on to "Does the 730 SSD use 12V power?."What happens when an Intel SSD does not receive all the power it would like? For example, a 730 has a maximum use of 5W/5.5W for 5V/12V, so what happens if less is supplied? Does the S...

ppara5 · 06-20-2019

One of the differences between consumer and enterprise SSDs is the amount of power they draw, with the latter not being limited to what a laptop SATA connector can supply. The 730 is half fish / half fowl, being a S3500 DC with some engineering chang...

ppara5 · 02-12-2017

I have a 530 120 GB SSD that exhibits problems when updating Fedora Linux. Messages along the lines of "write FPDMA queued" and "ATA bus error" are displayed. I removed the SSD from the PC and installed Fedora Linux on a WDC hard drive with no errors...

ppara5 · 06-26-2019

I spoke too soon. Whether used with a single or y-cord, I see an error message "attempt to read/write outside of disk hd0" (a GRUB error, I think), though it eventually boots into Linux. Some surfing suggests that there is an incompatibility between ...

ppara5 · 06-25-2019

I figured out what the problem was. It is the 730, but not in the way I expected.I have three external enclosures: Vantec NST-200S3-BK, Vantec NST-266S3-BK, and Inateck FE2002. The first has a y-cord to use when USB power isn't enough. I tried the tw...

ppara5 · 06-25-2019

I realize you must speak in generalities, but in this case I have proof that the 730 is the problem. The SSDs I use in external enclosures with Linux are Samsung 830, Crucial M4, and Intel 330. The Crucial uses the same NAND as Intel SSDs of that gen...

ppara5 · 06-25-2019

One of the things that often works is a complete disk wipe using either the shred (sudo shred -vn 1 /dev/sdX) or dd (sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX) commands in Linux. The OP mentioned GParted, so he was at least somewhat familiar with Linux. DBAN ...

ppara5 · 06-22-2019

As a follow-up, I tested whether a 730 240GB SSD can run Linux via an external USB enclosure. It cannot. Building the OS works okay, but booting does not work. I tried this with two enclosures that work with other SSDs. I suspect that all enterprise ...

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