NVME Wear Rate on 6100
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@keyser Thank you.
Yes, looks like syslog is consuming a tonne of writes my side. I've turned off default logging for deny rules and moved things to a ram disk for the time being.
This is insane though that we're buying equipment with very finite storage lifetime.
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@ahxcjay curious but whats writing so much?
I have had my 6100 Max for 3x years. I intentionally log every rule (compliance) along with pfblocker logging. There was a brief stint where i had to have ntop-ng running for a week.
No suricata/snort.== START OF SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02) Critical Warning: 0x00 Temperature: 59 Celsius Available Spare: 100% Available Spare Threshold: 1% Percentage Used: 31% Data Units Read: 35,772 [18.3 GB] Data Units Written: 28,839,860 [14.7 TB] Host Read Commands: 597,968 Host Write Commands: 929,740,937 Controller Busy Time: 11,409 Power Cycles: 37 Power On Hours: 6,553 Unsafe Shutdowns: 30 Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0 Error Information Log Entries: 0 Warning Comp. Temperature Time: 0 Critical Comp. Temperature Time: 0 Temperature Sensor 1: 83 Celsius Temperature Sensor 2: 59 Celsius Temperature Sensor 3: 59 Celsius Temperature Sensor 4: 60 Celsius Thermal Temp. 1 Transition Count: 1 -
@michmoor Your R&W stats are way below mine, yet you're at 31%. It's a really sucky situation.
I wish I knew what was writing so much. I run NextDNS, maybe it's that?
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@ahxcjay yep it is
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@michmoor Currently looking for a decent B+M key SSD to replace it with. I have a remote pfSense instance running on Protectli hardware. About to replace that with a Samsung Evo 870 when I'm on-site. The current WD one it has isn't in the smartdb. The wear indicator is '101' which is clearly wrong.
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@ahxcjay If it makes you feel any better, my production box's M.2 NVMe drive is currently sitting at 133%. You got time. ;)
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@tinfoilmatt hah! Appreciate it! I've mounted RAM disks for now. I wouldn't mind replacing the NVMe, it's just that finding a decent B&M keyed one now is so difficult.
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@ahxcjay said in NVME Wear Rate on 6100:
It's also written 186TB.
I had the same issue:
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/189820/how-do-i-find-out-what-write-continuously-on-my-pfsense-ssd -
@keyser said in NVME Wear Rate on 6100:
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/195990/another-netgate-with-storage-failure-6-in-total-so-far/38?_=1744872979707
I agree that thread contains an excellent analysis of the problem described in this thread together with solutions, so probably a better place to continue this conversations.
Starting near the end is easiest https://forum.netgate.com/topic/195990/another-netgate-with-storage-failure-6-in-total-so-far/
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@ahxcjay The KingSpec NE 2242 is one of the few widely-available options:
https://www.amazon.com/KingSpec-256GB-Performance-Internal-Ultrabook/dp/B08TTDQ5WH?th=1 -
@andrew_cb said in NVME Wear Rate on 6100:
@ahxcjay The KingSpec NE 2242 is one of the few widely-available options:
https://www.amazon.com/KingSpec-256GB-Performance-Internal-Ultrabook/dp/B08TTDQ5WH?th=1Installed yesterday. It's tiny.
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Number: NE-256 2242 Serial Number: Firmware Version: SN25845 PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID: 0x1e4b IEEE OUI Identifier: 0x0c82d5 Total NVM Capacity: 256,060,514,304 [256 GB] Unallocated NVM Capacity: 0 Controller ID: 0 NVMe Version: 1.4 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: 0c82d5 9581000413 Local Time is: Tue Apr 22 21:16:29 2025 EDT Firmware Updates (0x16): 3 Slots, no Reset required Optional Admin Commands (0x0017): Security Format Frmw_DL Self_Test Optional NVM Commands (0x001f): Comp Wr_Unc DS_Mngmt Wr_Zero Sav/Sel_Feat Log Page Attributes (0x06): Cmd_Eff_Lg Ext_Get_Lg Maximum Data Transfer Size: 128 Pages Warning Comp. Temp. Threshold: 90 Celsius Critical Comp. Temp. Threshold: 95 Celsius Supported Power States St Op Max Active Idle RL RT WL WT Ent_Lat Ex_Lat 0 + 6.50W - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 + 5.80W - - 1 1 1 1 0 0 2 + 3.60W - - 2 2 2 2 0 0 3 - 0.7460W - - 3 3 3 3 5000 10000 4 - 0.7260W - - 4 4 4 4 8000 45000 Supported LBA Sizes (NSID 0x1) Id Fmt Data Metadt Rel_Perf 0 + 512 0 0 === START OF SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02) Critical Warning: 0x00 Temperature: 41 Celsius Available Spare: 100% Available Spare Threshold: 1% Percentage Used: 0% Data Units Read: 2,707 [1.38 GB] Data Units Written: 9,386 [4.80 GB] Host Read Commands: 50,627 Host Write Commands: 189,770 Controller Busy Time: 0 Power Cycles: 4 Power On Hours: 28 Unsafe Shutdowns: 2 Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0 Error Information Log Entries: 0 Warning Comp. Temperature Time: 0 Critical Comp. Temperature Time: 0 Temperature Sensor 1: 41 Celsius Temperature Sensor 2: 49 Celsius
