Bought a new NVMe drive. Installed it using cheap PCIe adaptor bought off Amazon.
From /var/run/dmesg.boot
nvd0:NVMe namespace nvd0: 244198MB (500118192 512 byte sectors)
Surprisingly, the device is already partitioned.
[dvl@test ~]$ gpart show nvd0 => 34 500118125 nvd0 GPT (238G) 34 500118125 - free - (238G) [dvl@test ~]$
Eh, is is this a used device? The static bag it arrived in was sealed.
Let’s see.
[dvl@test ~]$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/nvd0 smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE-p3 amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org /dev/nvd0: To monitor NVMe disks use /dev/nvme* device names Please specify device type with the -d option. Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary
Oh, use the other device.
[dvl@test ~]$ smartctl -a /dev/nvme0 smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE-p3 amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org /dev/xpt0 control device couldn't opened: Permission denied Unable to get CAM device list Smartctl open device: /dev/nvme0 failed: Permission denied [dvl@test ~]$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/nvme0 smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE-p3 amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Number: WDC PC SN730 SDBQNTY-256G-1001 Serial Number: 21061V804801 Firmware Version: 11170101 PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID: 0x15b7 IEEE OUI Identifier: 0x001b44 Total NVM Capacity: 256,060,514,304 [256 GB] Unallocated NVM Capacity: 0 Controller ID: 8215 NVMe Version: 1.3 Number of Namespaces: 1 Namespace 1 Size/Capacity: 256,060,514,304 [256 GB] Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size: 512 Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64: 001b44 8b4851cd44 Local Time is: Mon Aug 9 13:49:10 2021 UTC Firmware Updates (0x14): 2 Slots, no Reset required Optional Admin Commands (0x0017): Security Format Frmw_DL Self_Test Optional NVM Commands (0x005f): Comp Wr_Unc DS_Mngmt Wr_Zero Sav/Sel_Feat Timestmp Log Page Attributes (0x1e): Cmd_Eff_Lg Ext_Get_Lg Telmtry_Lg Pers_Ev_Lg Maximum Data Transfer Size: 128 Pages Warning Comp. Temp. Threshold: 84 Celsius Critical Comp. Temp. Threshold: 88 Celsius Namespace 1 Features (0x02): NA_Fields Supported Power States St Op Max Active Idle RL RT WL WT Ent_Lat Ex_Lat 0 + 5.00W - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 + 3.50W - - 1 1 1 1 0 0 2 + 3.00W - - 2 2 2 2 0 0 3 - 0.0700W - - 3 3 3 3 4000 10000 4 - 0.0035W - - 4 4 4 4 4000 40000 Supported LBA Sizes (NSID 0x1) Id Fmt Data Metadt Rel_Perf 0 + 512 0 2 1 - 4096 0 1 === START OF SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02) Critical Warning: 0x00 Temperature: 38 Celsius Available Spare: 100% Available Spare Threshold: 10% Percentage Used: 0% Data Units Read: 133,366 [68.2 GB] Data Units Written: 203,997 [104 GB] Host Read Commands: 1,254,675 Host Write Commands: 1,332,160 Controller Busy Time: 2 Power Cycles: 56 Power On Hours: 4 Unsafe Shutdowns: 22 Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0 Error Information Log Entries: 1 Warning Comp. Temperature Time: 0 Critical Comp. Temperature Time: 0 Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 256 entries) No Errors Logged [dvl@test ~]$