I bought the drive from Amazon and everything looks very genuine.
Nvme tool reports:
$ sudo nvme list
Node SN Model
Namespace Usage Format FW Rev
--------------------- --------------------
---------------------------------------- ---------
-------------------------- ---------------- --------
/dev/nvme0n1 S7DSNJ0X910743Z Samsung SSD 990 PRO with
Heatsink 4TB 1 1.19 TB / 4.00 TB 512 B + 0 B
4B2QJXD7
The firmware seems to be the latest version:
https://semiconductor.samsung.com/consumer-storage/support/tools/
I'm giving exfat a shot and so far I'm impressed with 160 MB/s average
transfer rate (HDD -> NVMe).
That's significantly faster than before.
Partially because I'm using "rsync -avh --no-perms --no-group --no-owner
..." this time.
On 14/01/2025 17:02, Michael Stone wrote:
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 03:30:17PM +0000, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
I need NTFS to connect it to a WS 2019 machine later.
Have you considered exfat? Support for that on linux is much better than
ntfs.
At the very least I'd format the drive as anything other than ntfs and
retry as suggested elsewhere to confirm that it actually works as
expected. (Storage fraud really is a thing, where people sell drives
that have less storage than reported, on the theory that most people
won't fill it up in time to get their money back.)
