Question Any chance to recover data from a dead NVMe m.2?

[JeepinEd]

I spent the day working on a video, which I was saving to my D: drive - Kingston 2tb NVMe m.2 drive. Before I had a chance to back up, I noticed the folder started getting really slow & I was having trouble accessing files on it. I rebooted and now the drive is totally dead. I tried putting it in an external NVMe to USB enclosure, but still nothing. Any suggestions?

 

[Tech Junky]

Send it somewhere to see if they can get the data off the chips. Depends on how much it's worth to you and whether or not to spend on recovery.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

It's an eye-opener when people such as the OP JeepinEd report failures such as this one. We expect NVME drives to have greater reliability than other storage units, whether SATA SSD or obviously your 2.5" and 3.5" HDDs.

I'm always looking for backup strategies which add another layer of backup to a primary strategy.

I've had Kingston products in the past -- RAM and USB flash items. I don't think they failed, but Kingston is not on the top of my list for such things as NVME sticks. I used to buy Samsung NVMEs, and I now choose SK Hynix. As I'd said today in comment to another thread, I've been looking at a 4TB TeamGroup NVME with a 5 year warranty and life expectation of 1,200 TBW. That is, I'm "keeping an eye" on the product, anticipating some use for it in the future -- or when the "price is right". By the time I'm ready for one, there will be more offerings from other manufacturers. And maybe I just didn't search hard enough this time around.

 

[mikeymikec]

It's an eye-opener when people such as the OP JeepinEd report failures such as this one. We expect NVME drives to have greater reliability than other storage units, whether SATA SSD or obviously your 2.5" and 3.5" HDDs.

One drive failure out of a sample of one isn't statistically anything, and a backup strategy should always be in place because no storage medium is perfect. (not intended as a criticism of the OP)

OP, when you say that you get 'nothing' when you connect the drive via USB, do you mean nothing in Explorer or the drive doesn't even show up in the USB disconnection list? Because if you do get partition layouts, then maybe recovery software will get something for you.