Question Crucial P3 4TB Data Transfer messes up

[masterviper]

I bought a new 4TB Crucial P3 NVME and am having issues transferring data to it from my old nvme. This is the setup method:

- Old drive is a WD SN550 NVME 2TB inside of an ASUS ROG NVME Enslosure connected to an Asus PN53 AMD 6600 Mini PC via USB-C to USB-C.

New drive is just a secondary and doesnt have the OS on it (my main drive is a WD 850X 4TB NVME.

WHen starting the transfer of 1.6TB, it is fast initially at 990mbps and then after a few 100GB, it slows down to 20-100mbps (which is expected of a DRAMless NVME). What is not normal is that it then gets stuck at 0mbps for hours and never continues. I forced rebooted the pc and when retrying, it gives an error of some folders that the files dont exist. After I reboot and safely remove and re-add external NVME, it sees them as before and can start copying them, but then same issue again even with smaller increments of data transfers of 100GB.

What I'm wonderig is if one of the following is the problem:

1. the Crucial SSD is faulty
2. the Old WD Blue NVME drive doesnt work well inside an nvme enclosure
3. the initial transfer error corrupted the data on the two drives and I need to wipe and reformet them (I have a NAS backup of that data and am not worried of data loss)

I know the NVME enclosure is fine as it successfully transferred over 1TB of data from the SN 770 2TB drive to the SN850X 4TB drive using the same enclosure.

I have another Crucial 4TB NVME drive on another device that doesnt show any issues yet. But I never transferred data to it from another NVME externally. I used a SATA SSD for that.

I doubt its the NVME to NVME speed causing it to fail even if it slows down, but im not sure.

 

[Eximo]

The drive could be faulty, I suppose. Authentic drive? 4TB P3 exists, so as long as you got it for a realistic amount of money it is probably genuine.

Only other thing I can think of is some copying issue like a long filename path or something. Weirdly you can get into those situations through various ways. Usually software having a pre-defined location which is short, allowing the saving of a long filename or path, but the full path from the root can still be too long.

Bitwise cloning may be the way to go rather than a file transfer. Then you would have to extend the partition to fill the empty space.

 

[Ralston18]

Update your post to include full system hardware specs and OS information.

Include PSU: make, model, wattage, age, condition (original to build, new, refurbished, used?)

Open Disk Management: Expand the window so all can be seen. Take a screenshot and post the screenshot here via imgur (www.imgur.com).

Look in Reliability History/Monitor and Event Viewer.

Either one or both tools may have captured some error codes, warnings, or even informational events relevant to the described problems.

Is the data already backed up in other locations as well?

 

[masterviper]

its 100% authentic. ships from and sold Amazon. box came sealed and looked like my first one. Even Crystal Disk read it as 100% good and only had 1 bootup and 0 hours runtime when i first tried it.

 

[masterviper]

Asus PN53 AMD Ryzen 7 6800U, 32GB DDR5 4800mhz RAM, 130W Power supply brick. Windows 11 Pro

Data is already backed up. I dont need to recover anything on either drive. I just want to ensure the new drive is not faulty before using it fully. Will get the photos when i can access the pc.

 

[masterviper]

Update:

I reformatted the Crucial P3 4TB SSD and this time tried transferring 1.8TB from my NAS. I couldnt see it do the same thing, but my PC got a BSOD and the log is being analyzed. When I repeated the file transfer attempt, it gave an error about a file that could not be transferred. I retried the same files that included this one from the same NAS, only the destination drive is my primary, and no issues transferring.

I'm wondering now if the Crucial drive is defective.

Error code is:

An unexpected error is keeping you from copying the file. If you continue to receive this error, you can use the error code to search for help with this problem.

Error 0x800701B1: A Device which does not exist was specified.

 

[Lafong]

I am using a WD SN550 in an enclosure without issues.

But all enclosures are not equal. I know some don't support 4 TB drives but I don't exactly how that is presented to the user.

 

[masterviper]

this time when it failed again, I wasnt using the enclosure, The Crucial drive is installed into the 2nd nvme slot of my Asus mini pc. I analyzed the log and its ntoskrnl.exe which is pointing to high cpu usage/gpu which could be caused by the transfer failure

 

[masterviper]

What I know now is that it isnt my 2TB WD Blue nvme or the enclosure or the files being transferred.

 

[masterviper]

Just got a Samsung 990 Pro 4tb to replace the Crucial with (only single sided 4tb drive with dram out there that i know of.) Probably just a lemon i got with the P3 as my other one had no issues with large data transfers and its in my laptop as a secondary drive.

 

[masterviper]

Update:

the 990 Pro did the same thing as my crucial where it freezes on data transfer. I reformatted the drive and put it in an enclosure on another pc and started the same data transfer and to my amazement, it has not frozen since it started and got past the stuck part that was happening. It appears the culprit is either:

1. Corrupt Drivers on my OS drive (I Hope)
2. a bad NVME slot (I hope not as the first drive never had this issue).