01-16-2020, 02:35 PM
Earlier this week I got a Sabrent Rocket NANO 512 to try out in my PBP as a shared data drive.
Upon installation and first boot, everything seemed hunky-dory and normal. I took it to work, as usual, and noticed more battery drain than normal. After poking around with nvme-cli, I learned that drive doesn't have ideal power consumption or power savings settings for the PBP. When I took it home, I put it back on the charger, as I usually do, to let it sit until the next morning.
The next day (NVMe still installed) I grabbed it, went to work, and started it up. It was then that I noticed the PBP started with only 66% battery and it was still dropping fast. That day I initiated a return of the drive, wiped it, and removed the drive when I got home. I, again, plugged it back into the charger while off, to sit until the next morning.
Now that the drive is out, I'm still getting a max charge of 66%, whether I boot into Manjaro or Chromium OS. The only changes made were the installation of the NVMe drive, so I'm curious if anyone else has noticed this issue with a drive installed?
I'm pretty bothered that suddenly I lost ~40% battery life/capacity, and there's been no indication as to why or how to resolve it, from what I can tell. If anyone has any helpful suggestions to troubleshoot, please share!
Upon installation and first boot, everything seemed hunky-dory and normal. I took it to work, as usual, and noticed more battery drain than normal. After poking around with nvme-cli, I learned that drive doesn't have ideal power consumption or power savings settings for the PBP. When I took it home, I put it back on the charger, as I usually do, to let it sit until the next morning.
The next day (NVMe still installed) I grabbed it, went to work, and started it up. It was then that I noticed the PBP started with only 66% battery and it was still dropping fast. That day I initiated a return of the drive, wiped it, and removed the drive when I got home. I, again, plugged it back into the charger while off, to sit until the next morning.
Now that the drive is out, I'm still getting a max charge of 66%, whether I boot into Manjaro or Chromium OS. The only changes made were the installation of the NVMe drive, so I'm curious if anyone else has noticed this issue with a drive installed?
I'm pretty bothered that suddenly I lost ~40% battery life/capacity, and there's been no indication as to why or how to resolve it, from what I can tell. If anyone has any helpful suggestions to troubleshoot, please share!