I have a ~5-year old ThinkPad x201 and it worked fine until I chose to update my ram and disk to now:
- description: SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous (according to
sudo lshw -class memory(M471B5273CH0-CH9 and JM1333KSN-4G) 1334 MHhz) - and samsung ssd 850 Evo
After this files especially files causing package errors, but also a git-repo are constantly being corrupted (like so).
I did one run of Memtest (my laptop is getting really hot, causing a shuthdown. So no overnight-runs) and the integred SMART test (from the Disk gnome-disk-utility), both passing.
What I would like to now, is how can I track down what's really going wrong. Could it be the new SSD, the ram, or maybe after 5-years the mainboard?
(I am using 14.04)
update 21.9.
I changed back to my old hdd and no file erros anymore. So I assume it's a hardware error. I am still curious, if there is a way to check this software-wise.
update 28.12.
I sent my ssd to Samsung, they did a erase with their smart-suite (they have linux version as well, but I couldn't get it to work). I reinstalled ubuntu, but a bit differently (lvm and encrypted). No file errors happend in a very short (meanwhile I got a new computer) usage period.
On a sidenote this launchpad-bug seems quite similar.
