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For a more permanent setup, then an external USB caddy to enclose it. For a quick connection, then one of the USB to SATA adaptors that just plugs into the drive but does not necessarily include an enclosure.

Formatting may or may not be required depending on what it was used for previously. Either way, its usually pretty straight forward.

Not denigrating that particular make (not used any), but even the worst SSDs also tend to "work fine" for a period of time :-)

It's been going for 8 months or so now with no issues.

... and it's a KingDian one actually, I just latched on to the King bit and assumed mine was the same! :-)

Having let it cool down overnight, I stacked half a dozen £2 coins on it as a makeshift heatsink, that helped but it still got over 65°C, so with a 1.5 lb chunk of copper sitting on the flash chip it stays at 48°C and let me robocopy stuff ... I'll doubt I'll ever trust the files copied off it, so they'll be 32GB sitting in limbo for years, just in case.

Assuming it's a 2.5" SATA drive, something like this

I find the UASP versions are worth the extra couple of quid, performance wise.

You may be versed with some of keying issues with these SSDs but this article illustrates that not all drives are the same:

yes, reasonably well versed with that, doesn't seem amazingly well thought out, if you have a card that can fit in both B & M slots, that means it has two groups of missing pins, which means that even in a machine that provides 4x PCIe lanes, the card can only use 2 of the lanes (I think I have that the right?)

For longer than 13 months? :-)

Seems that heat is the main issue with the Lexar NVMe, if I keep it under 50°C it's fine, having zeroed it (yes that's added 0.5TBW to the counter) and re-formatted. The original machine didn't come with thermal pad and neither did the replacement drive, the laptop is an appleesqe one carved from from somethingium, so a thermal pad is worth investigating, I think.

For now I've ordered the Sabrent, and will see how that goes, the Lexar can sit in the USB enclosure as a portable disk for now, or maybe I'll send it back and see what they say, it's used up 3% of its spare sectors.

I got the caddy suggested earlier in the thread and plugged it in to a blue usb port on this Mint 17 machine.

The ssd is formatted EXT and seems to be owned by root.

I ought to be able to change ownership and rights with CHMOD but dammed if I can figure out how. It's SDB with SDB1 as the single partition but I guess it must be mounted on media somewhere.

sudo apt install disktype

sudo disktype /dev/sdb

Does all look in order ?

That's a very basic scan that a file system header is present, implying the user formatted at some point. Lots of tools rely on the partition type, like 0x82 or 0x83, but you also need to verify what's been stuffed into the partition as well. Disktype helps with that. The only thing I know of that Disktype does not handle, is Veritas Dynamic Disk metadata. I have a Cygwin port of disktype in Windows, for the same purpose.

Look in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab and see if you've selected a too-rigid mounting option. Mount options are applied with things like "-o loop,ro". The "ro" would be deadly because it's "Read Only" and no amount of shmodding will make a bit of difference. There are also other security options in there.

Check and make sure the mount was not bungled first. I've had all sorts of these miserable surprises over the years, to provide entertainment when I had better things to do.

Paul

How odd. Mostly they come FAT or NTFS

You can explicitly mount it anywhere using te mount command.

If you unmount it you can re format it to your needs

And give it a nice label too. I think all mounted *disks* are 'owned' by root.

You can change permissions of the partitoins within, only...

It was previously used as second disk in linux pc

Thanks but that was not necessary, I managed to change the properties in the GUI without resorting to command line.