[kwlug-disc] m.2 data loss?

[Charles M]

It's a desktop Ron. I stuck that Sabrent rocket heat sink on the m.2
so it's well cooled.

On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 7:00 PM Ron Singh <ronsingh149 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is the device a laptop or desktop?
>
> See, your issue sounds similar to what I had happen last month on my play laptop --
> A T470 Thinkpad, Mint Xfce 20.2, Samsung 970 EVO NVMe SSD.
>
> I run TLP on it and thought I would be a smartypants and set TLP to do lazy writes to the SSD after 60 seconds of drive idle(when on battery) from the customary 2 seconds.
> Well, the T470 is set to "sleep" after 15 mins of idle time and I suppose the "sleep" sequence messed up ny install a bit. My problems were loss of Firefox private tabs when I rebooted and occasionally having to reboot as my cursor hangs in the upper left hand corner.
>
> My solution was to put the TLP settings back to default and my problems went away.
> Not sure if this is in anway relevant to your issues.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron S.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 6:20 PM Charles M <chaslinux at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Has anyone experienced issues with data loss on a new m.2 drive? I
>> installed a Samsung 980 NVMe m.2 drive a couple of days ago, installed
>> Xubuntu 20.04 and set up some software. I had somewhere to go this
>> morning and turned my system off. When I came back in the afternoon
>> and turned things back on it seemed almost as if my .config directory
>> became corrupted as a lot of software wasn't recognizing saved
>> credentials (Steam, MakeMKV registration was gone, Firefox was as if
>> it was refreshed). I had a look at auth.log and nothing looks
>> suspicious, and I had the machine off, so I don't think it's an issue
>> of being hacked.
>>
>> Are there other things I might check?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Charles
>>
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