When You Know Your SSD Your Controller Is Dead

These messages are be caused by multiple reasons:

• external enclosure randomly and silently destroys data and reports weird stuff
• SSD type was SATA, not NVMe

While it reports Samsung 980, the real SSD was SanDisk X300e.

[   52.960435] usb 1-11: new high-speed USB device number 7 using xhci_hcd
[   53.204154] usb 1-11: New USB device found, idVendor=152d, idProduct=0562, bcdDevice=31.02
[   53.204162] usb 1-11: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[   53.204164] usb 1-11: Product: USB 3.1 Storage Device
[   53.204166] usb 1-11: Manufacturer: JMicron
[   53.204168] usb 1-11: SerialNumber: whocares
[   53.227861] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[   53.252536] scsi host12: uas
[   53.252628] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[   53.252954] scsi 12:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Samsung  SSD 980 1TB      3102 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[   53.253684] sd 12:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
[   61.513215] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] Unit Not Ready
[   61.513222] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] Sense Key : Hardware Error [current] 
[   61.513226] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] ASC=0x44 <>ASCQ=0x81 
[   61.513457] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] Read Capacity(16) failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
[   61.513459] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] Sense Key : Hardware Error [current] 
[   61.513462] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] ASC=0x44 <>ASCQ=0x81 
[   61.513698] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] Read Capacity(10) failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
[   61.513700] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] Sense Key : Hardware Error [current] 
[   61.513703] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] ASC=0x44 <>ASCQ=0x81 
[   61.514186] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] 0 512-byte logical blocks: (0 B/0 B)
[   61.514187] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] 0-byte physical blocks
[   61.514422] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
[   61.514503] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] Asking for cache data failed
[   61.514506] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
[   61.514745] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] Optimal transfer size 33553920 bytes not a multiple of physical block size (0 bytes)
[   61.515329] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] Unit Not Ready
[   61.515330] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] Sense Key : Hardware Error [current] 
[   61.515332] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] ASC=0x44 <>ASCQ=0x81 
[   61.515574] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] Read Capacity(16) failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
[   61.515575] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] Sense Key : Hardware Error [current] 
[   61.515577] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] ASC=0x44 <>ASCQ=0x81 
[   61.515813] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] Read Capacity(10) failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
[   61.515814] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] Sense Key : Hardware Error [current] 
[   61.515815] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] ASC=0x44 <>ASCQ=0x81 
[   61.533156] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI disk