Turns out it wasn't the RAM nor the graphics card but the barely used NVME (that I recently started using with linux as boot) that was causing random crashes.

Very tempted to still just replace the whole thing...

Nothing too important on there other than my bash history and LLM models

Both of those are important to me. Backup, replace, and restore

Turns out it was my dev drive :( I thought it was another drive. Most projects are on git but still. Will probably be able to fiddle and get access but still that's a while to copy

@asgs LLM models are the least important thing on those drives, can just download them again, internet is fast enough

@BordedDev ah. I thought those were your customized ones

@asgs AH yeah, that would be hell that's a good chunk of change if it was

Everything I've heard about NVME has been the same: They're unreliable, they fail sooner, they have a shorter lifespan, etc.

@Wisecrack I have heard the opposite, BUT you have to have get once which are made well (aka has it's own ran and the not shit type of flash), this one is the only one that isn't and I got with something else.

So far in my life I've had only 2 flaky drives, a HDD and this NVME (though it also possible it's the port on the mobo, since a wiggle and it comes back before disappearing again)

@BordedDev a port wiggling is never a good sign.

But if it works, it works.

@Wisecrack at least for long enought to get the data off of it, going to replace it with a good WD or samsung