Only for some reason, I cannot force Debian to install the amdgpu drivers and Proton won't work for me on the radeon ones. It arrived a few days ago, installed Debian on it and lo and behold, it works! No freezes, no problems, read speeds are at the constant advertised 530MB/s. I googled thoroughly with its make and model plus "error", "bug", "firmware" etc, found nothing. I even called Kingston support, but once I mentioned that I use Linux they pretty much said "well, yeah, good luck". I don't have a Windows PC laying around and to be honest, I don't fully trust the new firmware to fix the issue. And hey, it's easy to fix, just update the firmware! Unless you are on Linux of course, because they don't provide the firmware separately and force you to use their bullshit manager software. Turns out, it's a known firmware bug with the A400 line. I ran some tests with hdparm and found that the read speed was, at most, 200MB/s. All in all, it took me about three weeks until I finally found the culprit: the goddamn SSD! To my defense, it took so much time because I could barely find anything in the logs (and I scoured all the logs I could find), repeated runs of SMART gave me no warnings and I also had barely any free time.įinally I found some logs showing frequent read errors ("buffer I/O error on device logical block xyz") and discussions like this gave me the final push:
Reinstalling (Ubuntu this time), resizing swap, checking all drivers, updating BIOS firmware, KMS black magic.
And I also started getting very weird errors - sometimes the entire filesystem would lock up to read only.Īnd I tried everything. When the freezes not only didn't stop, but increased in frequency and length, I started troubleshooting. Sometimes, I got small freezes in games or when watching videos in Chrome, but I waved them away in lieu of the PC needing time to "burn in", and hey, maybe I was missing some drivers still.
I bought an SSD from this line: Īfter installing Debian, setting up everything I needed and trying out a few games, everything seemed to work fine. I've been using Linux (mostly Mint) on my laptop for years so I was no stranger to its quirks.īut boy, this was a bumpy ride. Pretty good specs for a good price, all working together in unison (well, almost all) to give me the best Proton-powered experience. Recently I built my first Linux gaming PC.
TL DR: Kingston A400 SSDs have fucked firmware and you cannot update it on Linux.
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