Kernel Panic Nvme

You are using a drive not officially supported by Apple along with an M.2 NVME Sintech adapter. You might need to change the internal drive to something else not so bleeding edge and / or downgrade to Big Sur until Apple fixes this problem, which may never actually happen as they don't officially support the drive.

Since Apple has been using soldered internal SSDs since 2016 on MacBook Pros with a Touch Bar and since they are changing from Intel to Apple Silicon SoC processors the chances of this being fixed are very low. When Intel based Mac's are 5-7 years old Apple will drop support for Intel entirely. The last MBP's to support upgrading the SSD is the 2015 13" / 15" and the 13" MBP non-Touch Bar (2016-2017). So at best you are looking at about 1-3 years in the best case scenario for a MacBook Pro with a replaceable internal SSD to still be supported by a recent macOS version.

There is a large discussion on MacRumors and several people report similar problems with kernel panics on Monterey with 2013-2015 MBPs. Sounds like a driver problem. Especially if you didn't have a problem before Monterey.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/upgrading-2013-2014-macbook-pro-ssd-to-m-2-nvme.2034976/page-386

Others are reporting issues with higher power draw resulting in large battery drains and seeing data errors via DriveDX disk diagnostics. Many with 3rd party SSD's are finding they had to re-install the Apple SSD so macOS Monterey would install a required firmware update that would not work with the 3rd party SSD installed. Then revert back to the 3rd party SSD and quite a few people have experienced kernel panics with the 3rd party SSDs. Apple may or may not decide to fix this problem. You should submit bug report feedback regardless using the Apple Feedback Assistant. https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/

Don't know if Sabrent offers drivers or not but they might not be compatible with Monterey. May require a kernel extension.

FYI, the M1 Pro / Max SSD speeds are incredibly fast, up to 7.5Gbps Read Max. They are also far more energy efficient drawing less power. Real world benchmarks are seeing 6.8Gbps or 6.9Gbs depending on 14" versus 16" as well as the size of the Apple SSD 512GB / 1TB / 2TB / 4TB. Even the M1 MBP/Air is twice the speed of the 2019 MBA.

Best of luck

Check the firmware version of the NVMe SSD and go about updating the drives firmware if an update is available from the drive manufacturer. You will likely need to do it on Windows.

Most likely it is a compatibility issue with the SSD Adapter if you are using a standard M.2 SSD. It seems the most compatible adapter is from Sintech according to the forum posts I've seen here. If you are using a SSD made for an Apple laptop such as from one from OWC, then contact their tech support team for assistance.

There is also a chance you could have an issue with some installed third party software such as an anti-virus app, cleaning app, or third party security software that is interfering with the SSD's NVMe driver.

This looks like an NVMe failure. You are using a 3rd party SSD, so it is possible it does not meet the specs that Apple needs for their Macs.

Maybe check with your SSD vendor.

You should also try an SMC reset and an NVRAM reset

Reset the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac - Apple Support

How to reset NVRAM on your Mac - Apple Support

I do not think they will help, but they will not hurt.

>Kenneth Nelson said

>I installed a Crucial SSD with a Sintech controller. It worked perfectly for six months with Mojave (10.14). I get 2-3 crashes a day with Catalina (10.15), Big Sur (11.1), and Monterey (12.1).

Contact Crucial, and see if they have a solution.

Please post one or more panic reports

Finder -> Go (menu) -> Go to folder -> /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports

Command-Shift-Period will show invisible files. Look for files that end in the word .panic or .contents.panic and post them in an Additional Text box

Press Command-Shift-Period to hid the Finder invisible files again.

NOTE: without seeing the panic report, I am leaning towards HWTech's answer, that this is a hardware issue.

I have the exact same issue, am using Sabrent Rocket 1TB NVME with Sintech adapter, and getting many crashes after upgrading to Monterey. No issue with Big Sur or Catalina for the past 3 years.

panic(cpu 0
caller 0xffffff8016542836): nvme: "3rd party NVMe controller. Loss of MMIO
space. Write. fBuiltIn=1 MODEL=Sabrent FW=ECFM12.2 CSTS=0xffffffff US[1]=0x0
US[0]=0x5a VID=0x1987 DID=0x5012 CRITICAL_WARNING=0x0.\n"
@IONVMeController.cpp:6053

I'm also getting similar error randomly, has started happening since a month. before I upgraded to Monterey.

I'd swapped the Apple SSD to other SSD in Jan 2021, never had this problem till last month.

Can you suggest what can be the cause & what can be done to fix it?

I installed a Crucial SSD with a Sintech controller. It worked perfectly for six months with Mojave (10.14). I get 2-3 crashes a day with Catalina (10.15), Big Sur (11.1), and Monterey (12.1).