11-21-2018, 10:22 AM
Hi,
The other day I purchased a cheap (on offer) new Crucial M.2 profile 1TB Sata SSD.
I also purchased from ebay a nice looking black anodised aluminium case to house the SSD. It has a Sata to USB 3 converter, and connects with a short cable and USB3 connector, It was about £7. It uses a J Micron I.C. control chip.
At first it all appeared fine!. I connected to my Linux mint dev system, formatted the ssd and downloaded 269GB of flac high def files at 100MB/s super I thought. I left the drive connected and when I returned to it after an hour, the drive had disconnected from my system. I had to unplug and replug it to get it connected.
I didn't pursue this problem, but moved the ssd over to a Moode system, which saw the drive as an external usb and started to catalogue it. This never finished, and when I investigated, the drive had vanished from Moode as well.
Googling this type of problem, I found lots of similar issues. One fellow claimed (unsupported) that Micron chipset controllers were responsible but other chip vendors were OK. Other people claimed it was a heat issue in the aluminium enclosure as there are no vents, others claimed low power. At the mo, I have a 5.2v 8A yes 8A, power supply feeding my Moode system, don't ask, and I never see any lightning symbols on the PI! I have an usb inline checker connected and it is showing 5.1v and 240 mA for the USB to SSD set.
I have just ordered and am waiting for it to arrive, a Starcom ssd to usb adaptor, id SM2NGFFMBU33, which has a ASMedia - ASM1153E chipset. It was more expensive, so I hope this one works correctly.
I will keep you posted on progress.
Has anyone else had a similar problem?
regards
Patrick
The other day I purchased a cheap (on offer) new Crucial M.2 profile 1TB Sata SSD.
I also purchased from ebay a nice looking black anodised aluminium case to house the SSD. It has a Sata to USB 3 converter, and connects with a short cable and USB3 connector, It was about £7. It uses a J Micron I.C. control chip.
At first it all appeared fine!. I connected to my Linux mint dev system, formatted the ssd and downloaded 269GB of flac high def files at 100MB/s super I thought. I left the drive connected and when I returned to it after an hour, the drive had disconnected from my system. I had to unplug and replug it to get it connected.
I didn't pursue this problem, but moved the ssd over to a Moode system, which saw the drive as an external usb and started to catalogue it. This never finished, and when I investigated, the drive had vanished from Moode as well.
Googling this type of problem, I found lots of similar issues. One fellow claimed (unsupported) that Micron chipset controllers were responsible but other chip vendors were OK. Other people claimed it was a heat issue in the aluminium enclosure as there are no vents, others claimed low power. At the mo, I have a 5.2v 8A yes 8A, power supply feeding my Moode system, don't ask, and I never see any lightning symbols on the PI! I have an usb inline checker connected and it is showing 5.1v and 240 mA for the USB to SSD set.
I have just ordered and am waiting for it to arrive, a Starcom ssd to usb adaptor, id SM2NGFFMBU33, which has a ASMedia - ASM1153E chipset. It was more expensive, so I hope this one works correctly.
I will keep you posted on progress.
Has anyone else had a similar problem?
regards
Patrick
