New SSD going read-only at random times about once a month.
by k.yepes from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5B170)
I have a PC that I built in 2010 that had 3 different old-style mechanical rotating hard drives for the last 10 years. A few months ago I thought it would be wise to replace the main drive (which my OS is installed on - I use Linux mint, I think it's version 20?). I bought one of the samsung evo 500gb SSDs.
I did this mostly because I didn't want to deal with O.S. drive crashing - this computer is my "daily driver". I cloned the Old style mechanical HD with clonezilla onto the SSD. When I was done I noticed a huge increase in performance.
A few days went by, and I noticed that a bunch of things stopped working and behaved strangely. I found that this was because the drive suddenly became 'read only' when I was using it. (I can't remember what I was doing when I discovered this). I figured I'd reboot- and see if the problem went away. When I rebooted I could not get past GRUB. It would only give me an INITRAMFS prompt.
I found this link- which I followed the instructions (this fixed it)
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1243...n-ubuntu-20-04
This fixed worked for about a month or so, and one day when I fell asleep watching youtube I noticed that the video was stuck "loading" when I woke back up after about an hour or so napping. The same thing had happened - the drive went read-only. Being that I dealt with this before, I threw in a linux live ISO DVD and fixed it just like before.
About another month went by, and today this happened again. Today I was copying some files (from a DIFFERENT hard drive inside of the same PC to my laptop via SSH) and I went into my garage to do some work because it was going to take about an hour or 2. I came back and noticed that the file system had become read only again.
I am at work now, so I figured I'd use my spare time to research this and ask questions because I do not know what is causing this. I am worried that I may have received a bad SSD. (I bought it from NEWEGG). I don't want to keep operating this way.
I did this mostly because I didn't want to deal with O.S. drive crashing - this computer is my "daily driver". I cloned the Old style mechanical HD with clonezilla onto the SSD. When I was done I noticed a huge increase in performance.
A few days went by, and I noticed that a bunch of things stopped working and behaved strangely. I found that this was because the drive suddenly became 'read only' when I was using it. (I can't remember what I was doing when I discovered this). I figured I'd reboot- and see if the problem went away. When I rebooted I could not get past GRUB. It would only give me an INITRAMFS prompt.
I found this link- which I followed the instructions (this fixed it)
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1243...n-ubuntu-20-04
This fixed worked for about a month or so, and one day when I fell asleep watching youtube I noticed that the video was stuck "loading" when I woke back up after about an hour or so napping. The same thing had happened - the drive went read-only. Being that I dealt with this before, I threw in a linux live ISO DVD and fixed it just like before.
About another month went by, and today this happened again. Today I was copying some files (from a DIFFERENT hard drive inside of the same PC to my laptop via SSH) and I went into my garage to do some work because it was going to take about an hour or 2. I came back and noticed that the file system had become read only again.
I am at work now, so I figured I'd use my spare time to research this and ask questions because I do not know what is causing this. I am worried that I may have received a bad SSD. (I bought it from NEWEGG). I don't want to keep operating this way.