Questions tagged [ssd]
Solid-state drive; a device that uses solid-state memory to persistently store data, often as a replacement for a traditional hard drive. Because SSDs do not use mechanical seeking to access data, they can provide much higher performance than hard drives especially with random I/O operations.
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MFT performance with fragmented SSDs
My undestanding is that NTFS's MFT maps file names with each physical location (or some kind of virtual address) of file fragments.
Therefore a highly fragmented disk such as a SDD will have a bigger ...
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How can I recreate CrystalDiskMark's disk benchmark on Linux?
I want to be able to test the read/write performance of my disks on Windows and in Linux, and get as accurate a comparison as possible.
On Windows I'm using CrystalDiskMark, because hey, it's OSS and ...
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Recovery of a Samsung SSD T5 Drive
I have a Samsung Portable SSD T5 1TB drive which has been partitioned under Windows 10. As of today, I can't access to the drive anymore, as the Samsung Portable SSD Software 1.6.6 tells me "Failed to ...
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AHCI required for new SSD?
I do not know too terribly much about computers, but I wanted to try to install SSD as my new boot drive. My computer does not have AHCI and I'm not sure how to update my BIOS or if it will even give ...
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Why is my SSD performing so far over spec? [duplicate]
While setting up a new laptop, I plugged in an SSD from an old computer, a 1TB Samsung 840 EVO 2.5" SATA III. This drive is rated for 540 MB read / 520 write according to Samsung.
At first it only ...
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Can I use PCIe SSD card in my motherboard?
My motherboard Name: GA-H61M-S2PV (rev. 2.2)
Detail link: https://www.gigabyte.com/bd/Motherboard/GA-H61M-S2PV-rev-22/sp#sp
Expansion Slots:
1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16
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Checking if SSD died
I've got a serious problem with my SSD.
Once, it failed to boot and all of partitions were lost. I managed to recover partitions by sticking it as an external drive to other PC. I copied all the data ...
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Windows 10 keeps blue screening
I have been getting a lot of blue screens recently with various errors such as "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA", "SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION"and "CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED_".
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Successfully cloned my HDD to a new SSD, but can only boot into SSD if the old HDD is unplugged
OS: Windows 10 Build 18363
Laptop: Acer Aspire E5-475
SSD: Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2
BIOS mode is UEFI
So following instructions on various websites, I installed my new SSD on my laptop. I used ...
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Diagnose failure of motherboard to recognize an M2 drive
I have a WS C422 Sage/10G motherboard which supports two M.2 slots. I got 2x Inland Premium 1TB SSD 3D NAND M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 Internal Solid State Drives to go into those slots. According to ...
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In order to dual boot, is it necessary to install the second OS in the same drive as the primary Os?
So, basically i was thinking to Dual boot linux and windows ( windows pre installed)... But one question kept bugging me, and you might ask why it's a problem, since my Windows is installed in an Ssd, ...
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Is it an issue if my drive is assigned to B:?
I have read that drives are not typically assigned to B: because it used to be assigned to floppy disks in MSDOS. IS this still an issue? I partitioned my new SSD to the B: location.
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Is normal this speed of Reading an Writing in my SSD?
I'd realised that SDD's speed to move or copy folder is too slow (SDD M.2), I installed a software to see the spped that it could have, and ins't the same when for example I moving a folder or coping ...
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Is semi-unlocked BitLocker drive data fully decrypted?
My BitLocker encrypted SSD went corrupt after I started to decrypt it. Is my data on the SSD still encrypted? It was in the early stages of the BitLocker decryption and the drive was never fully ...
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New SSD not appearing in BIOS or Windows
I bought a second-hand HP Z820 workstation. Upon turning it on for the first time, Windows 10 installed and everything works smooth. The machine has two storage devices: a 512GB SSD (slot 0) and a 2TB ...
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What's the difference between a USB 3.0 to SATA III adapter with an AC power supply and one without?
I need an adapter for transferring files between my SSD and my laptop (Dell Latitude E7440). Will there be a difference in performance with a power cable? Will one without a power cable be reliable ...
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Firmware interface changed itself after disk replacement, laptop dead
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Asus X556 8GB RAM with CD ROM 2 USB slots Nvidia GeForce 940M Intel core i5
I replaced Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD which was preinstalled with a new WD NandBlue 3D 500GB SSD.
First boot with ...
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SSD Trim on Archlinux
I heard a lot of different opinions about SSD Trim and normally it's not very important to know how that is handled because you know that is handled unless I use systems where most of the installation ...
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Can't remove old hard drive without getting no bootable devices found message
I have my OS installed on an SSD, and a 2 tb hard drive in my PC that I primarily use, but I left my old 500 gb hdd in there, and unless it's in my system I get an error saying no bootable devices ...
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Cloning hard drive with rsync and accidently deleted home folder
I want to replace my old SSD hard drive with a new one that has double the size, but somehow fail to understand how rsync is working.
I read this post Copy entire file system hierarchy from one drive ...
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2100: Detection error on HDD0 black screen error lenovo thinkpad carbon x1
I am having an issue with this lenovo thinkpad carbon x1, It's about 3 months old. With normal use, It all of the sudden goes into a black screen saying 2100: Detection error on HDD0 (Main HDD) Press ...
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Problems because of HDD drive letter changed
The laptop is booting from the new SSD. But all my apps are on the HDD. After adding the new SSD, the drive letters of the HDD were changed. Now when I try to run an application that is on the HDD, it ...
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How to move apps from HDD to SSD without reinstalling them?
I gave the store today, to add a new SSD to my laptop. And I assumed that when I receive the laptop, it will be as normal as before but with a good performance and an increase in speed.
But after I on ...
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How to boot from hdd?
HDD + SSD(boot). The laptop is booting from a new SSD with a fresh OS installed on it. Is it possible to boot from the HDD for once and then the next time to boot from the SSD again?
How can I boot ...
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SSD NVMe drop in write speed
I bought a Corsair Force MP510 NVMe SSD 480 Go 4 months ago, it was such a breeze with significant high read/write speed and the benchmark was as announced in CrystalDiskMark7 (I had 3,3GB/s (3.5 in ...
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SSD suspected to be failing, failing to boot
Here is the complete story. I have this ROG Strix G g531gv laptop for almost 6 months now.
specs: i7 9750h, rtx2060(mobile), intel SSD 660p M.2 nvme 512gb, 16gb 2666mhz ram, 1tb 5400 seagate HDD
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Installing an SSD to a laptop w/o the nest
I have an ASUS FX505-DT. It had an HDD, it was in a box or something and I took both of them out. Now I want to install an SSD but I don't have that box with me. I couldn't find a place to buy it ...
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Moving Windows 10 installation to another drive
There are a lot of questions like this, but given the specific circumstances I am adding this one as a new question as there are some specific issues that need to be tackled.
The steps that got me to ...
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MacBook Pro A1706 BridgeOS and external EFI
I have recently acquired a MacBook Pro with dead SSD, which seems irreparable. I cannot find the fault on the board. I am running Mojave off an external SSD which gives me no Touch Bar, KB backlight, ...
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Broken SSD. What should I do?
It seems my SSD is broken. I can't boot my laptop. The SSD including operating system does not appear in the boot menu anymore anymore.
Is there an easy way to repair the SSD or to extract all my data ...
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SSD M2 not recognized after graphics card change
I am having a very strange problem with my SSD M2. After I have changed my graphics card from MSI GTX 950 OC to Asus Strix RX580 8GB my SSD M2 is not recognized anymore by the PC. The HDD is fine all ...
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What are those SATA connectors?
I have bought a Dell Poweredge T440. I'd like to use embedded SATA for one of my SSD but i can't figure out what is this SATA connector on the motherboard:
https://qrl.dell.com/Files/en-us/Html/...
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How to increase virtual memory in Windows 10
Premiere Pro is complaining when I import more than 120gb of video. I have 240gb ssd, 10gb RAM.
When I increase virtual memory to 15GB, max 30GB, I still getting the low memory import error once the ...
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Windows 8 Hardware Diagnostics
I have a new high spec. Windows 8 Pro work station that has now BSOD three times in 5 days due to NTFS problems. Is there a tool I can leave running after work that try to determine the root cause of ...
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Space needed for Kali-Linux?
I am curious about how much space to allocate on SSD for Kali-Linux as a second operating system.
I've read requirements ranging between 10 GB and 17 GB. It seems like it would be safest to assume ...
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size on disk is too less than actual size
Thıs was happened when someone tried to transfer photos from his mobile device to my computer. Every single file is taking 13GB of size, and literally 8kb on disk I am using Windows 10 and have an ...
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Is there a way to revert/destroy/disassemble a RAID-0 set with Disk Utility?
And recover/reconstruct the data (that is split in half) across two SSDs? I just haven't noticed enough real-world-usage improvement using RAID-0 (perhaps related question) and would like to use the ...
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How to add Hard Drive to Dell Optiplex 330 Desktop?
I read in the manual for the Dell Optiplex 330 that I can use second HDD. Actually I want to place 2.5" SSD. But I don't even understand where can I place 3.5". Tried to remove the 1st HDD and find ...
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I purchased a used SSD. What should I do with it before using it to check that it's healthy, hasn't been "abused", and isn't counterfeit?
As per the title I purchased a "used" SSD.
I've read about cases where users have purchased used drives and discovered they are somehow unhealthy or have been abused or tampered with somehow, for ...
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Trying to set up the SSD portion of an SSHD as a cache in Windows 7 but it appears to be doing nothing
I just installed Windows 7 on my laptop which has a hybrid drive. I put the OS on the hard disk drive portion and left the SSD part untouched, currently it’s just unallocated space. However I want to ...
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Where are the capacitors for m.2-SSDs?
SSDs have physical block-sizes larger than the report to the operating system. These blocks can be only written as a whole, i.e. not partitially. But the write-requests made by the operating-system ...
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Is my SSD dead? 3 year old laptop will not boot into Windows 10 or safe mode
My 3 year old Dell XPS 15 9560 laptop will not boot into Windows 10 or safe modes.
UEFI and BIOS list the SSD (as follows) and Dell ePSA does not detect any errors/problems with any part of the ...
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Laptop won't power up after disk replacement, what should I do?
Asus X556 8GB RAM with CD ROM 2 USB slots Nvidia GeForce 940M Intel core i5
I cannot boot the computer. It's dead.
On my laptop, my old HDD stopped working so I've replaced it with an SSD (WD Blue ...
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Non-system-disk error on Windows 7/10 restart
I have a very specific error with an HP Elitebook 8540w notebook into which I have recently upgraded the hard drive, from a Crucial 500GB drive to a Samsung 1TB SSD.
Via booting to a Ubuntu 14 live ...
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Startup Time Slower On PC Than On Laptop
For a while I had an HP Omen now and it started up pretty fast: With an i7 7th Gen and M.2 NVMe it with "Fast Boot" enabled it was up and running in 3.5 seconds (Windows Task Manager "Last BIOS time")....
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Dual-Boot : Linux/Windows (mobo & hotswap options related)
I am currently running (successfully for the past 3 weeks) a dualboot system with :
Windows 10 Pro 1909 for professionnal reasons and gaming [480GB SSD on Sata port 3]
Arch Linux latest release for ...
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What to do if Windows keeps getting corrupted?
For the second time now, my PC has just randomly not been able to boot and got stuck in an automatic repair loop. The error code I get when trying to boot is 0xc000021a. I've tried everything and it ...
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Clone laptop SSD to bigger SSD via USB HDD - Windows 7
What would be the easiest way to do the above, having in mind that the usb HDD is not empty (but it has more than enough room for the SSD contents) and that it doesn't have a OS, and also, that I don'...
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Main Drive Not Listed on Boot Priority Menu - Asus
I've recently installed a drive that runs Linux but wanted to maintain Windows as my default boot drive. This hasn't happened and after tooling around in the BIOS for a bit, and doing some research, I ...
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SSHD failing - reading speeds under 100 Kb/s
My old Seagate SSHD (ST1000DX001) started responding slower. I've been trying to backup important files from it to a newly bought SSD and the reading speeds are under 100 Kb/s which often breaks to 0 ...
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