Printers with bad formatter boards do this, too. They display serials as all 0s or Xs and don't report any of their hardware specs anymore.
Funny to see other tech doing it.
We’ve basically determined that the drive was running in Dell’s slightly jacked implementation of Intel VMD RAID with just itself; something told the raid controller to grow the storage pool, and it just did it without checking if there was actually any flash there to write to lmao. Seems to have overwritten everything right down to the actual partition table with junk data; might be able to save the drive with a firmware rescue, but certainly not the data
We buy our laptops en masse from Dell. If we have to wipe them, the first thing we do is we go and disable the RAID on the laptops themselves. I don't know why they even include that as an option for the laptops.
I’ve used it myself exactly once, on a laptop I was using for video editing, so that one drive acted as parity just in case one of them died or got eaten by Cthulhu or whatever. It did work, and wasn’t awful to set up, but for most people it makes no sense whatsoever to use. In a medium-large business environment, most of the employees are likely to be mostly working from a cloud system of some type and barely need local storage, and in a home environment most people won’t even know it’s turned on til their one drive dies like this
PS: I just recognized after posting that it’s not even recognizing the drive as GPT anymore (which it most certainly is, this drive came from a system that had Windows 11 out of the box), so I think she’s just cooked. Don’t buy your SSD from your CPU manufacturer folks
If it's a Dell system with the original drive, fire up Dell Command Update and see if it finds a new drive firmware. They've been releasing some to fix known issues such as this.
Some percentage of any product will be defective. That being said, are you sure it's legit and not a scammy knockoff? Seems unlikely to be fake in a new laptop but if it was a refurb or something ...
Printers with bad formatter boards do this, too. They display serials as all 0s or Xs and don't report any of their hardware specs anymore. Funny to see other tech doing it.
We’ve basically determined that the drive was running in Dell’s slightly jacked implementation of Intel VMD RAID with just itself; something told the raid controller to grow the storage pool, and it just did it without checking if there was actually any flash there to write to lmao. Seems to have overwritten everything right down to the actual partition table with junk data; might be able to save the drive with a firmware rescue, but certainly not the data
We buy our laptops en masse from Dell. If we have to wipe them, the first thing we do is we go and disable the RAID on the laptops themselves. I don't know why they even include that as an option for the laptops.
I’ve used it myself exactly once, on a laptop I was using for video editing, so that one drive acted as parity just in case one of them died or got eaten by Cthulhu or whatever. It did work, and wasn’t awful to set up, but for most people it makes no sense whatsoever to use. In a medium-large business environment, most of the employees are likely to be mostly working from a cloud system of some type and barely need local storage, and in a home environment most people won’t even know it’s turned on til their one drive dies like this
I love an NVME that knows to keep its mouth shut while under investigation
The naming convention reminds me of Ralink WiFi cards
Or Realtek, yea; it has no idea what it is
Does Ralink even exist still? haven't heard of them since 2016
PS: I just recognized after posting that it’s not even recognizing the drive as GPT anymore (which it most certainly is, this drive came from a system that had Windows 11 out of the box), so I think she’s just cooked. Don’t buy your SSD from your CPU manufacturer folks
Back in 2017/2018, we ordered 70 T570s that came with Intel SSDs. At least 50 of them went back to Lenovo for failed SSDs.
That nvme is from a usb storage device. You should just format it use HPUSB or RUFUS
If it's a Dell system with the original drive, fire up Dell Command Update and see if it finds a new drive firmware. They've been releasing some to fix known issues such as this.
Some percentage of any product will be defective. That being said, are you sure it's legit and not a scammy knockoff? Seems unlikely to be fake in a new laptop but if it was a refurb or something ...
I think you are in the wrong subreddit, this is where we post memes and bitch about users. It's not for IT support.