09-13-2020, 07:45 PM
After more testing, I am fairly convinced that this is a heat issue. If I cold-boot and immediately run the command
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nvme0n1p1 bs=1M status=progress conv=fdatasync
then it will get a good 10 minutes in before freezing. The left palm rest (where the nvme drive is located) is very warm-to-hot at this point. But even when it freezes, it is only temporary, and the progress will eventually start again, but only for a little while. Eventually, it will get to the point where it will write a few blocks every 30 seconds or so.
Unless someone has another suggestion, I plan to return both drives and get a different make and model.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nvme0n1p1 bs=1M status=progress conv=fdatasync
then it will get a good 10 minutes in before freezing. The left palm rest (where the nvme drive is located) is very warm-to-hot at this point. But even when it freezes, it is only temporary, and the progress will eventually start again, but only for a little while. Eventually, it will get to the point where it will write a few blocks every 30 seconds or so.
Unless someone has another suggestion, I plan to return both drives and get a different make and model.
