The power supply sounds possible. To check one could connect the old one and see if the problem comes back.In my case it was definitely not the cable by the power supply. Just changing that has sorted the issue. It did however require a full rebuild of the OS. Just swapping the power supply was not enough as clearly a corruption took place beforehand.One thing I noticed when my USB SSD cable was going bad is that my PI would become almost unresponsive as well. I could ping it, but nothing else really worked. It was half alive. I could make a connection with SSH but it wouldnt follow through. I put a netdata monitor on it. That agent still worked when it went unresponsive a week later and showed everything working but the drive. Replaced the cable and it's been fine since.
You mention NVME, so likely not a cable issue. But your symptoms sound the same almost. Just a thought.
I think it is also possible a software update has happened to fix a 16K page-size incompatibility since your first install.
Statistics: Posted by ejolson — Fri Dec 19, 2025 4:16 pm