Hello,

I recently ran a full diagnostic scan of my Intel 530 240GB SSD the other day and saw that it failed at 9% during the Read Scan portion of the test while showing this message: "Error: An error was detected reading data from the selected Intel SSD. Contact your reseller or local Intel representative for assistance."

Since then, I have updated to the latest version of Intel SSD Toolbox (v3.4.7) and ran the test again with the same result. I have owned my drive for three years now and use it in my home desktop. After looking around at some of the other posts regarding SSDs, it was a common theme for an attachment of the SMART details provided by the Intel SSD Toolbox.

Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated,

KR

Hello All!

I am using 2 800GB DC P3700's as cache drives in a Storage Spaces Direct Implementation. There seems to be a huge issue using this drive as it is affecting the performance of the overall cluster. There has been an article posted by Microsoft concerning the issue and a small suggestion to remedy the event from popping up, but not actually fixing the storage issue. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4052341/slow-performance-or-lost-communication-io-error-detached-or-no-redunda

I have all the SSDs on the latest firmware provided and I am just wondering if Intel is working on this issue, or if there has been any recommendations by Intel to resolve this issue.

- Intel SSD DC P3700 Series CVFT724500ME800QGN -

Bootloader : 8B1B0133

DevicePath : \\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE0

DeviceStatus : Healthy

Firmware : 8DV101H0

FirmwareUpdateAvailable : The selected Intel SSD contains current firmware as of this tool release.

Index : 0

ModelNumber : INTEL SSDPE2MD800G4

ProductFamily : Intel SSD DC P3700 Series

SerialNumber : CVFT724500ME800QGN

- Intel SSD DC P3700 Series CVFT724500DP800QGN -

Bootloader : 8B1B0133

DevicePath : \\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE1

DeviceStatus : Healthy

Firmware : 8DV101H0

FirmwareUpdateAvailable : The selected Intel SSD contains current firmware as of this tool release.

Index : 1

ModelNumber : INTEL SSDPE2MD800G4

ProductFamily : Intel SSD DC P3700 Series

SerialNumber : CVFT724500DP800QGN

Hello there.

2 Weeks ago I broke my rule not to get any second hand storage media but the price was too tempting.

In short I have 2.5” Intel SSDSC2BF512A5 with Firmware: LB1i which turned out to be Dell OEM version of the drive obviously with custom firmware.

Before I go to the problems and what I did my question is simple is there any newer firmware for this device and can you provide it to me ? I checked Dell drivers section but there are firmwares only for the 2.5” 360GB and 180GB and mSATA 180GB.Any way I executed their setups and they informed that as of their current version there is no newer version of the firmware for my SSD.
I also downloaded and checked 2 of the latest versions of Intel SSD Toolbox and the Intel SSD Firmware Update Tool but they state I’m with latest version of the firmware.
Let me repeat I’m with LB1i Intel lists TG21 as the latest one for the Pro 2500 series (on multiple places says I should use OEM provided firmware for the OEM drives).
The 512GB version of the drive is not listed anywhere as supported by the Toolbox and FW Update Tool so I believe it is intended only for OEMs this is why I’m writing this because I’m unable to find any newer FW since the release of this drive but the rest of the Pro 2500 series obviously received one update.

Problem 1
BOOT - BIOS is not detecting for boot Windows 8.1 64bit from the drive after what I would call soft RESTART (both after Win restart or some other OS or Ctrl+Alt+Del reboot after being in the BIOS). SSD is in MBR style partitions boot is done in Legacy mode. SSD drive is detected but the BIOS is not finding anything to boot in this condition If I have bootable USB drive I can load an OS and can freely copy,paste and modify the SSD.

Solution
Problem is not occurring on full Power Cycle (Power OFF and Power ON the machine)
Problem is not occurring with Windows 7 64bit in MBR style
Problem is not occurring when the drive is in GPT style and booth is in UEFI mode.
Let’s say this is solved but still I can reproduce it easily.

Problem 2
Windows 8.1 Freezes / Hangs.
One by one all the open apps are freezing ( I can’t also start new ones) until everything freeze and I need a power cycle.
Nothing in the Event Log for this events (it hangs also and is unable to write errors in the event log , I tried to solve this by redirecting the event logs to external USB storage) but the only 2 times I was able to refresh it before it frezes I could see “Event ID : 129 – storahci resetting raidport0” this error was not recorded and not visible after system reboot.
This is the most annoying problem. After full 2 weeks spending 6 hours every night at home trying a lot of stuff I’m still unable to resolve it.

Let’s clarify system was working without any of this issues with the Lenovo OEM Samsung 128GB SSD drive. Initially I cloned the Win 8.1 from the old drive but afterwards I did clean install in UEFI mode.

System : Lenovo x220 Tablet (model 4299CV8) , i7 -2640m , RAM Lenovo OEM Samsung 4GB + 2GB DDR3 1333MHz
BIOS : 1.43 (latest/modded)
Intel Management Engine Frimware 7.1.91.3272
Lenovo Battery Firmware 1.16
ALL the Firmwares were updated to the latest ones

So what I did so far
Lenovo X220 Tablet updated BIOS from 1.30 to 1.40 to 1.40 modded to 1.43(latest) to 1.43 modded BIOS no change in the behavior at all.
SATA is in AHCI ( I tried IDE It crashes the system just after 5min in idle reboots and drive is not detectable)
From the modded BIOS when in AHCI I set the “Aggressive Link Power” to Disabled and Port 0 “ALPM Mode Select” is Disabled this 2 settings are bringing some stability.

Windows 8.1 settings

SATA Drivers – the default Microsoft ones (edited registry more on that later) the latest one for the system from INTEL AHCI 12.9.0.1001 are freezing the machine in no more than 15 min work and 5 min idle in some cases with Blue Screen stating CRITICAL_PROCESS DIED and no dump for this screen/crash it is not going beyond 0% reboots and HDD is not detectable by BIOS (BIOS screams “2100: Detection error on HDD0 (Main HDD)” .

Power Options: All power plans both battery and AC power
Hard Disk – Turn Off hardisk after : Never

I edited the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\0012ee47-9041-4b5d-9b77-535fba8b1442\0b2d69d7-a2a1-449c-9680-f91c70521c60 and here “Attributes” is set to 2 to Expose “AHCI Link Power Management” in Hard Disk power Options.
“Active” It can still freeze.
“HIPM” – freezes very fast sometimes I don’t have the time to get to the Control Panel after boot.
“DIPM” – the most stable one I can get the system up to 12h constant work without letting the machine idling for more than a minute (that is the record without freezeing)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\0012ee47-9041-4b5d-9b77-535fba8b1442\dab60367-53fe-4fbc-825e-521d069d2456
“Attributes” is set to 2 to Expose "AHCI Link Power Management - Adaptive" tried both 0 milliseconds and 300000 milliseconds

PCI Express link power management is OFF

Microsoft storahci
I edited the registry in the following way.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\storahci\Parameters\Device
NoLPM – I added the following to the list of devices there
INTEL SSDSC2*
INTEL SSD?C??????A5*
INTEL SSD?C??????A5?*
INTEL SSD?C??????A5??*
INTEL SSDSC2BF512A5*
INTEL SSDSC2BF512A5 SATA 512GB*

NoidleD3 : I saw that INTEL SSD?C??????A4* series are added there on Windows 8.1 and in the office I also saw my SSD added on Windows 10 INTEL SSD?C??????A5*
so I copied the settings from my office computer and added my own like this

INTEL SSD?C??????A5
INTEL SSD?C??????A5?
INTEL SSD?C??????A5??
INTEL SSDSC2BF512A5
INTEL SSDSC2BF512A5 SATA 512GB

NoFUACommand – after some reading here and there I understood that most of the SSDs most probably are disregarding this command so I decided to add the following here

INTEL*
INTEL SSDSC2*
INTEL SSD?C??????A5*
INTEL SSD?C??????A5?*
INTEL SSD?C??????A5??*
INTEL SSDSC2BF512A5*
INTEL SSDSC2BF512A5 SATA 512GB*

All this changes made the system much more stable and is even capable in 2/3 of the times to enter and exit sleep while solely on battery.

Next iaStorV
Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\iaStorV\Parameters I added new key Port0 and there I added the following DWORDS
LPM = 0
LPMDSTATE=0

I haven’t felt any change from the last but it was worth trying.

If you gonna ask me about SSD Toolbox SMART shows all OK Media Wear shows 75% left and I have run Quick Diagnostic scan.

I did all the dumb stuff like switching off prefetch , defragment , pagefile , assuring that TRIM is running and all the basic stuff you can think of.

Since the easiest way to hang the system is by letting it go on it’s own in Sleep and wake it up in which cases depending on the configs and drivers is either hanging just prior to enter Sleep or when it get out of it or 10min after it got out of Sleep I believe that the problem is purely in the way the SSD is handling the power states either the SATA ones or the ACPI ones. And my ultimate conclusion given the fact that I saw it added to the Windows 10 NoidleD3 that it has troubles with the D states. In some very rare cases when windows is able to crash with bluescreen after the freeze and restarts the SSD is not visible for the BIOS which means that a soft restart is not able to get it out of the power state it got itself into.

I tried both with and without the Lenovo Power Management driver installed and no difference.
So if someone knows how and from where I can completely disable the power states for the SSD in Win8.1 you are welcome to share it either of this I believe the solutions are Windows 7 (not yet fully tested) or newer SSD firmware in order this system to work in its current config Win8.1 + X220+ Pro 2500.

Fun fact about Intel SSD Toolbox it says that DIPM is not set and when I click Optimize and check the Power Settings I see it set on HIPM

I have tried everything I can think to try. I've been on my motherboard manufacturer's website, I've searched amongst all of these community posts, and I've tried every solution that everyone has suggested, but intel optane still won't enable.

I am running an Asus prime-z270-a motherboard with an I7 7700. I have a 16GB optane module installed. I can see it in device manager. I can see it in bios. I have CSM turned off, UEFI only boot, Intel Rapid Storage Technology enabled. Can anyone help???

My computer has mostly 2012 parts, Windows 7 Home Premium, with a Geforce 1080 video card. Hard drive setup is 2x Intel 335 series 240GB SSDs in RAID 0, a spare Samsung 840 250GB SSD, and a Western Digital 2TB Black.

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/mhunt0007/saved/#view=ZZGjXL

I just acquired the Intel 900P 480GB version, plugged it in, turned on the computer, didn't see it show up on BIOS flash screen, and upon reaching desktop there was some message about not finding the driver etc, and there appears to be 0 drivers of any sort with the product. I came to Intel's pages and ran the Intel Driver and Support Assistant which didn't detect anything other than Intel HD 4000 to update. Then I manually fetched the SetupNVME.exe, which seems to have done absolutely nothing after installation. I downloaded the x64 zip file but it doesn't have any installation instructions inside it. I'm stalled at this point.  I know there's very likely some manually work around I have to do because of Windows 7's age, but I don't know what it is. My intent is to get the driver operable so I can install 8.1 on it and update that to 10.

Download NVMe* Drivers for Intel® Optane™ SSD 900P Series

Hi you,

My ssd:  cvtq613603sa240b    h74084-601

Why it not warranty on the web ?

Thank you.

Hello I have a 535 ssd bought in Feb, 2016

Now my PC may reboot suddenly and in BIOS I see my drive's name becomes

sandforce(200026BB)0.0GB

I tried to shut down my pc's power for a while,

and the ssd could be accessed again.

Afer some time, pc crashed again.

what's the problem?

Should I contact the agents for help and send it to them to fix it?

Hi all,

I'm having a hell of a hard time getting my 1.2TB Intel 750 SSD to boot Windows 10. I installed the SSD correctly and it was recognized by Windows just fine. I then ran the Acronis 2018 Clone drive tool and cloned my existing Windows drive to the 750 - and all seemed well. However, when I disconnect the spinning hard drive and try to boot from the 750, I don't see it in the boot menu or listed anywhere in the bios.

I have a Supermicro X10DRG-Q motherboard with two Xeon processors. I also have 128GB of RAM and no other drives connected. Does anyone have any tips for me? I really need this to work since I'm writing an article about this system for publication in an HPC-related online news site.

Thanks in advance!!

Dan

Hey guys! I recently purchased an Intel 900p 280 GB and I've installed it into my ASUS Z370-E motherboard but not matter what I do I can't get it to be recognized and assigned a letter by the system. The Intel SSD Toolbox recognizes the drive and everything appears to be fine diagnostic wise but Windows 10 64 bit simply won't recognize it and the NvME Installation Setup won't detect the drive either. Any help you all could give me would be very appreciated!

Hi to all.

I've seen that a new SSD model was released: S4600.

Is this the proper replacement model for S3610 ? Is S3610 dismissed ?

If I saw properly, these two models doesn't have the same specs, endurance for S4600 is a little bit lower (a little bit less than 3DWPD),

write speeds seems to be higher and read speed lower.

Am I missing something ?

As we have a bounch of S3610, should I buy and replace them with S4600 when needed ?

would be possible to know the exact blocks number for both model (480gb) ? In other words, would be possible to replace a S3610 with a S4600 in the same RAID array ? (blocks must be the same)

Physical Installation Instructions for Intel® Optane™ SSD 900P Series

Above is the instruction link, I am a little confused that

when it says

If you are using a third-party (add-in card) video card, place it in the PCIe connector closest to CPU (F)

So it means Video card?

My question is

if I have 2 PCIe 3 X16

             1  PCIe 3 X16 (x2 mode)

optimal placement for the cards is that , put video card close to CPU, and 900P next to it?

what if the space between 2 slots is small (mATX), if I don't want to restrict the air flow on the video card

can I put it to the PCIe 3 X16 (x2 mode), if it is x2 mode does that mean even if it is a by 16 connection, but

it will only have X2 bandwidth?

Thanks in advance!

How could I get ssd life information（whole life and remaining life）in my system？

I tried "smartctl" and "isdct", but they do not work:

#smartctl -i /dev/nvme0n1 :

(smartctl can not recognize intel pcie ssd)

isdct:

#isdct show -a -intelssd

DeviceStatus:Healthy

EnduranceAnalyzer:XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

....

I want specific remainning life but a flag that show the ssd is healthy or not.

#isdct show -a -smart -intelssd

- AD -

AverageEraseCycles:65

Description: Wear Leveling Count

ID:AD

MaximumEraseCycles : 83

MinimumEraseCycles : 48

Normalized : 100

Raw : 279178313776

- E2 -

Description: Timed Workload - Media Wear

ID : E2

Normalized: 100

Raw:65536

- E4 -

Description: Timed Workload Timer

ID : E4

Normalized : 100

Raw:65535

- F4 -

Description: NAND Bytes Written

ID : F4

Normalized : 100

Raw : 4208175

- F5 -

Description : Host Bytes Writen

ID : F5

Normalized : 100

Raw : 2865299

(and  several attributes)

Is there a mathematical formula describing the remainning life of the dc p3600 using these attributes ？

================================================================================

Or other way to get specific whole life and remainning life？

Have a good day!

What minimum cluster size provides Intel for its SSDrives ?

I know, 4kb is standard, but can I make it smaller ?

Hello. I'm interested in what will happen to the drive, if the recorded data exceeds 128TB (the declared resource of the drive): it will go into read mode or continue working further, until the reserve blocks are exhausted, or some other condition (what?) Is reached. Very strange is the limitation in 128GB for recording this drive for enthusiasts, for MLC memory in comparison with the budget segment's 600p drives, in which the resource is claimed to be 2 times larger for a similar volume. The same question is of interest for the DC P3600 series.

Hello

I am using P3600 Intel NVME. I am wondering whether they support SR-IOV. I am planning to run some performance isolation test on them on a virtualized environment.

Regards

Mania

I recently added a 600p SSD to a new AMD build. The utilites refuse to update the drivers, and the provided linux distro failed to boot (likely due to the being Intel specific).

Is there any way I can update the firmware that doesn't require access to a computer with an intel based processor?

Motherboard: Asus Strix X370-F

Processor:     Ryzen 1800X

I have experienced horribly slow write performance on both my S3520 240GB drives on Windows 7, and would like some guidance.

The details:

I have 4 Intel SSDs : 2 x  530 Series (SSDSC2BW120A4 and SSDSC2BW240A4), and 2 x S3520 240GB (SSDSC2BB240G7).   I have the same very disparate performance with both pairs.  In addition, I have 3rd S3520 in the field with the same problem.

The pair I will highlight is as follows:

          530 Series 120GB

          F/W version : DC32

          S/N: PHD A41 660 0Z8 120 7GN

          DC S3520 240GB

          F/W version : N2011021

          S/N: BTD V72 750 FRY 240 AGN

The problem:  I have a proprietary OS running on a Pentium server box, which has its own driver to talk to these SSDs in IDE mode.  The 530 performs very well, in line with benchmark data I can find on the Web.  The S3520 performs well also, except In certain cases, where its average sector write time is 26x (yes, 26) that of the 530.  We have managed to produce a specific test case where we write 15,634 single sectors of a 13MB file, with specific content in each sector, and the same non-consecutive order of disk addresses being written.  The average write time for sector writes to the 520 is 0.06ms, and the average write time for the S3520 is 1.56ms.

At first we thought there must be some compatibility problem between our disk driver and this specific drive.

But  I have constructed a Windows program which writes these same sectors to a second pair of drives, in the same order, on Windows 7 (using FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING).

The result is the same: < 1 sec to write the 15,634 sectors on the 530, and > 20 sec on the S3520.

I can only conclude that the S3520 has some severe firmware problem which makes it sensitive to the content (and/or the order) of certain data being written.

Does anyone have any experience with similar problems here?

Hello there.

2 Weeks ago I broke my rule not to get any second hand storage media but the price was too tempting.

In short I have 2.5” Intel SSDSC2BF512A5 with Firmware: LB1i which turned out to be Dell OEM version of the drive obviously with custom firmware.

Before I go to the problems and what I did my question is simple is there any newer firmware for this device and can you provide it to me ? I checked Dell drivers section but there are firmwares only for the 2.5” 360GB and 180GB and mSATA 180GB.Any way I executed their setups and they informed that as of their current version there is no newer version of the firmware for my SSD.
I also downloaded and checked 2 of the latest versions of Intel SSD Toolbox and the Intel SSD Firmware Update Tool but they state I’m with latest version of the firmware.
Let me repeat I’m with LB1i Intel lists TG21 as the latest one for the Pro 2500 series (on multiple places says I should use OEM provided firmware for the OEM drives).
The 512GB version of the drive is not listed anywhere as supported by the Toolbox and FW Update Tool so I believe it is intended only for OEMs this is why I’m writing this because I’m unable to find any newer FW since the release of this drive but the rest of the Pro 2500 series obviously received one update.

Problem 1
BOOT - BIOS is not detecting for boot Windows 8.1 64bit from the drive after what I would call soft RESTART (both after Win restart or some other OS or Ctrl+Alt+Del reboot after being in the BIOS). SSD is in MBR style partitions boot is done in Legacy mode. SSD drive is detected but the BIOS is not finding anything to boot in this condition If I have bootable USB drive I can load an OS and can freely copy,paste and modify the SSD.

Solution
Problem is not occurring on full Power Cycle (Power OFF and Power ON the machine)
Problem is not occurring with Windows 7 64bit in MBR style
Problem is not occurring when the drive is in GPT style and booth is in UEFI mode.
Let’s say this is solved but still I can reproduce it easily.

Problem 2
Windows 8.1 Freezes / Hangs.
One by one all the open apps are freezing ( I can’t also start new ones) until everything freeze and I need a power cycle.
Nothing in the Event Log for this events (it hangs also and is unable to write errors in the event log , I tried to solve this by redirecting the event logs to external USB storage) but the only 2 times I was able to refresh it before it frezes I could see “Event ID : 129 – storahci resetting raidport0” this error was not recorded and not visible after system reboot.
This is the most annoying problem. After full 2 weeks spending 6 hours every night at home trying a lot of stuff I’m still unable to resolve it.

Let’s clarify system was working without any of this issues with the Lenovo OEM Samsung 128GB SSD drive. Initially I cloned the Win 8.1 from the old drive but afterwards I did clean install in UEFI mode.

System : Lenovo x220 Tablet (model 4299CV8) , i7 -2640m , RAM Lenovo OEM Samsung 4GB + 2GB DDR3 1333MHz
BIOS : 1.43 (latest/modded)
Intel Management Engine Frimware 7.1.91.3272
Lenovo Battery Firmware 1.16
ALL the Firmwares were updated to the latest ones

So what I did so far
Lenovo X220 Tablet updated BIOS from 1.30 to 1.40 to 1.40 modded to 1.43(latest) to 1.43 modded BIOS no change in the behavior at all.
SATA is in AHCI ( I tried IDE It crashes the system just after 5min in idle reboots and drive is not detectable)
From the modded BIOS when in AHCI I set the “Aggressive Link Power” to Disabled and Port 0 “ALPM Mode Select” is Disabled this 2 settings are bringing some stability.

Windows 8.1 settings

SATA Drivers – the default Microsoft ones (edited registry more on that later) the latest one for the system from INTEL AHCI 12.9.0.1001 are freezing the machine in no more than 15 min work and 5 min idle in some cases with Blue Screen stating CRITICAL_PROCESS DIED and no dump for this screen/crash it is not going beyond 0% reboots and HDD is not detectable by BIOS (BIOS screams “2100: Detection error on HDD0 (Main HDD)” .

Power Options: All power plans both battery and AC power
Hard Disk – Turn Off hardisk after : Never

I edited the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\0012ee47-9041-4b5d-9b77-535fba8b1442\0b2d69d7-a2a1-449c-9680-f91c70521c60 and here “Attributes” is set to 2 to Expose “AHCI Link Power Management” in Hard Disk power Options.
“Active” It can still freeze.
“HIPM” – freezes very fast sometimes I don’t have the time to get to the Control Panel after boot.
“DIPM” – the most stable one I can get the system up to 12h constant work without letting the machine idling for more than a minute (that is the record without freezeing)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\0012ee47-9041-4b5d-9b77-535fba8b1442\dab60367-53fe-4fbc-825e-521d069d2456
“Attributes” is set to 2 to Expose "AHCI Link Power Management - Adaptive" tried both 0 milliseconds and 300000 milliseconds

PCI Express link power management is OFF

Microsoft storahci
I edited the registry in the following way.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\storahci\Parameters\Device
NoLPM – I added the following to the list of devices there
INTEL SSDSC2*
INTEL SSD?C??????A5*
INTEL SSD?C??????A5?*
INTEL SSD?C??????A5??*
INTEL SSDSC2BF512A5*
INTEL SSDSC2BF512A5 SATA 512GB*

NoidleD3 : I saw that INTEL SSD?C??????A4* series are added there on Windows 8.1 and in the office I also saw my SSD added on Windows 10 INTEL SSD?C??????A5*
so I copied the settings from my office computer and added my own like this

INTEL SSD?C??????A5
INTEL SSD?C??????A5?
INTEL SSD?C??????A5??
INTEL SSDSC2BF512A5
INTEL SSDSC2BF512A5 SATA 512GB

NoFUACommand – after some reading here and there I understood that most of the SSDs most probably are disregarding this command so I decided to add the following here

INTEL*
INTEL SSDSC2*
INTEL SSD?C??????A5*
INTEL SSD?C??????A5?*
INTEL SSD?C??????A5??*
INTEL SSDSC2BF512A5*
INTEL SSDSC2BF512A5 SATA 512GB*

All this changes made the system much more stable and is even capable in 2/3 of the times to enter and exit sleep while solely on battery.

Next iaStorV
Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\iaStorV\Parameters I added new key Port0 and there I added the following DWORDS
LPM = 0
LPMDSTATE=0

I haven’t felt any change from the last but it was worth trying.

If you gonna ask me about SSD Toolbox SMART shows all OK Media Wear shows 75% left and I have run Quick Diagnostic scan.

I did all the dumb stuff like switching off prefetch , defragment , pagefile , assuring that TRIM is running and all the basic stuff you can think of.

Since the easiest way to hang the system is by letting it go on it’s own in Sleep and wake it up in which cases depending on the configs and drivers is either hanging just prior to enter Sleep or when it get out of it or 10min after it got out of Sleep I believe that the problem is purely in the way the SSD is handling the power states either the SATA ones or the ACPI ones. And my ultimate conclusion given the fact that I saw it added to the Windows 10 NoidleD3 that it has troubles with the D states. In some very rare cases when windows is able to crash with bluescreen after the freeze and restarts the SSD is not visible for the BIOS which means that a soft restart is not able to get it out of the power state it got itself into.

I tried both with and without the Lenovo Power Management driver installed and no difference.
So if someone knows how and from where I can completely disable the power states for the SSD in Win8.1 you are welcome to share it either of this I believe the solutions are Windows 7 (not yet fully tested) or newer SSD firmware in order this system to work in its current config Win8.1 + X220+ Pro 2500.

Fun fact about Intel SSD Toolbox it says that DIPM is not set and when I click Optimize and check the Power Settings I see it set on HIPM

Hi,

we got a 4 node cluster running Storage Spaces direct, using P3700 NVMes as caching devices. There seems to be a problem with this combination:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4052341/slow-performance-or-lost-communication-io-error-detached-or-no-redunda

This can lead up to BSOD, which you can imagine is horrible in a production Cluster.

I could not find any information from Intel on this topic. Can anyone help me out with this? I don't know if this is a Microsoft problem, or if a new driver/firmware could help out.

I have also posted this in Microsoft TechNet.

Any help is highly apreciated!

Best regards,

Andreas

Hi,

I'm trying to activate eDrive on my Optane 900P. I've already tried the SSD Pro Admin Tool, but it doesn't seem to work.

Is there a way to enable it or is this feature unavailable?

Regards,

Chris