Hi Malcolm, thanks for your hint, but the media wear-out indicator is at 83 of 100 (see my opening post), indicating no problems at all.
The Limited Warranties for Intel® Solid State Drives defines the warranty period as whichever comes first: five years from date of purchase (depending on model) or once the SMART attribute E9 reaches the normalized value of one. This value starts out at 100 on brand new, unused drives.
The total amount written I calculated as about 1.5 TB, which is not that much imho.
Why should there be a problem installing TW to a SSD? I don’t get it…
I can reach the green progress bar at the very beginning of the install process and two times I reached the “choose System Role” screen and choose “Desktop with KDE…” but after confirming the system did not proceed to the next step even after waiting for some 45 min…
I’m just downloading the TW full installer DVD and give it another try. Then I have no ideas left. Maybe installing Leap would be the next option…
PS: The read-only is reversible (for some time at least…) by rebooting the system, which definitely will not be the case if the SSD is end-of-life, or?
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I would suggest contacting Intel, it could be a bug somewhere (I see you have the latest SSD firmware) particular to that SSD… else we would see other folks complaining about it? Then would look at an openSUSE bug…
I had to disable the built-in SAS RAID controller, otherwise the TW installer (both full and net) will hang at step “Disks” (before you can choose the partition layout). Don’t think this has to do with the Intel SSD firmware, as the SSD was doing now for about 3 years and nothing has changed in the setup for the last 4 weeks.
I installed now a fresh TW (copying over the /home partition from the old install) to a brand new Intel 535 120 GB SATA device. Will see how this works…