Bought it on eBay, said it was basically pulled from a new laptop. No idea why they pull NVMe drives from new laptops though.
smartctl says “SAMSUNG MZVL21T0HCLR-00BH1”, the listing said “Samsung PM9A1”.
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02, NSID 0x1)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 35 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 5%
Percentage Used: 0%
Data Units Read: 480,678 [246 GB]
Data Units Written: 692,298 [354 GB]
Host Read Commands: 24,772,344
Host Write Commands: 32,548,451
Controller Busy Time: 15
Power Cycles: 71
Power On Hours: 5
Unsafe Shutdowns: 36
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0
Warning Comp. Temperature Time: 0
Critical Comp. Temperature Time: 0
Temperature Sensor 1: 35 Celsius
Temperature Sensor 2: 42 Celsius
It was under $150.
Looks like it’s the HP one, the firmware is HPS4NGXH. That firmware was from 2024.
Might be faster then my old Crucial, not why I bought it though. Wanted more space.
KDiskMark (3.3.0): https://github.com/JonMagon/KDiskMark
Flexible I/O Tester (fio-3.42): https://github.com/axboe/fio
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes
[Read]
Sequential 1 MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 6362.849 MB/s [ 6213.7 IOPS] < 1230.69 us>
Sequential 128 KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 6713.297 MB/s [ 52447.6 IOPS] < 596.86 us>
Random 4 KiB (Q= 32, T=16): 4058.173 MB/s [ 1014543.5 IOPS] < 496.64 us>
Random 4 KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 88.371 MB/s [ 22092.8 IOPS] < 41.31 us>
[Write]
Sequential 1 MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 4615.545 MB/s [ 4507.4 IOPS] < 1673.74 us>
Sequential 128 KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 4941.732 MB/s [ 38607.3 IOPS] < 794.19 us>
Random 4 KiB (Q= 32, T=16): 3440.288 MB/s [ 860072.0 IOPS] < 586.13 us>
Random 4 KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 253.760 MB/s [ 63440.3 IOPS] < 12.16 us>
Profile: Default
Test: 1 GiB (x5) [Measure: 5 sec / Interval: 5 sec]
Date: 2026-10-22 21:19:44
OS: arch unknown [linux 7.2.11-arch1-1]
Target: /home 28% (218.32/774.85 GiB) [SAMSUNG MZVL21T0HCLR-00BH1]
The plastic screw for my iFixIt NVMe enclosure, is only good for flying onto the floor. Luckily, I have some small non plastic screws.
That nice enclosure, messed up my fingernail too. Not very long either. Now it’s bleeding. iFixIt screwdrivers have a weak magnet, only works with very small screws. A cheap Chinese screwdriver set, from Amazon, has a stronger magnet, until it doesn’t.