A solid-state drive (SSD) is a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to store persistent data with the intention of providing access in the same manner of a traditional block i/o hard disk drive.
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Does RAID 0 (striping) with two SSD hard disk make any sense?
I have a notebook (Dell M6500, 16GB Ram, I7-940M) with RAID controller (hardware raid controller). At the moment I have two SATA HDDs in RAID 0 (stripe) for best performance.
I want to buy SSDs ...
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Windows 7 - Installed new SSD System Drive with strange OS issues
I've recently installed a new SSD as the main system disk on my computer, clean formatting the previous 2 disks, but i've noticed some odd issues with how Windows is regarding the hardware.
I have 3 ...
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User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded After system reboots from crash [closed]
This is a strange one, I attempt to logon to my windows 7 PC and it logs in fine, but any process that then gets focus crashes and the system resets itself.
Once it has rebooted you can not logon ...
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SSD, MBR, GPT and Linux (choices)
I'm getting a new computer with a 120GB SSD and a 500GB HDD @ 5400rpm, I will install Arch Linux on it and maybe Windows at some point. My indecision starts with the following issues:
I though about ...
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Can I easily put an SSD in an ASUS G75, and which ones?
I've been out of the hardware game for a while. I'm looking to buy a new laptop, but even the gaming laptops mostly come with a 5400 RPM HDD. I've got my eye on some variant of the ASUS G75 but I'm ...
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How can I tell if my SRT SSD cache is big enough? [closed]
I'm looking at buying a new laptop. My current system has an SSD for the OS and magnetic hard drive for media. All the new ones I'm looking at have a hard drive plus mSATA-based SRT cache (ex: ...
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Does an SSD help to speed up a Pentium D PC?
I have an office Pentium D PC that i have to use for work, and it is .. very slow. The only "enhancement" i can to it is perhaps to install an SSD for use as its primary drive. May i know if this can ...
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RAM as SSD in OSX
Let's say I have a Mac with 128GB of RAM and no SSD. Could I somehow configure OSX to use the RAM as an SSD, i.e. as part of a Fusion Drive?
Note: manually making a Fusion Drive is described here: ...
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clone a running Windows 7 from 240 GB SSD to 120 GB SSD
is it possible to clone my running Windows 7 from a bigger SSD to a smaller SSD.
or do i need to reinstall everything?
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Switching to SSD in Portege R830
I have a portege R830 - X3310. Unfortunately my HDD gave up and I am thinking of switching to a SSD. Does any one have any idea if a Corsair Force GS will fit? The SSD is a 2.5" disk. I tried ...
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Will an additional SSD Drive fit into Dell Latitude E5420 laptop?
I want to make my laptop boot faster and thinking of purchasing an SSD Drive. I have Dell Latitude E5420 model. Will it be able to take an additional SSD Drive into it?
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Is it possible to wipe SSD with strong magnetic force?
I know it is possible to wipe a hard disk, but I'm wondering if something similar can be done to SSD disks as well?
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hybrid ultrabook: install ubuntu on ssd keeping win8
I have the following configuration on a asus vivobook, with hdd+ssd: http://snag.gy/4Uq1b.jpg
Disk 0 is 500gb hdd, disk1 is 24 gb ssd.
I would like to keep the existing win8 installation, installing ...
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C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\ keeps growng and growing
What is it? Why is this so big? Can I savely delete it?
That's how my SSD grows so big by the way.
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Can't format my SSD anymore
I am not sure if my SSD is broken.
I tried to install Windows 7 on my SSD today and it somehow got stuck in the installation process.
After aborting the installation, I tried it again but I ...
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Can't mount SSD
I have a bit of a problem. I am running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on my laptop, and about 2 years ago I replaced the aging HDD with a 32 GB SSD. Today I tried to boot my computer, but it couldn't.
So I've put ...
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OCZ Onyx SSD will not boot until power turned off and on
There is a 64G OCZ Onyx working as the boot drive for my windows 7 box for little over a couple years now. What happens now is that the box will freeze like the HDD has disappeared and the box will ...
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My SSD keeps getting full. What files are there anyway? [duplicate]
I do not install new software. I do not download new movies. It starts of at 90GB and then now it's 110GB. Slowly but surely the space is taken.
I don't know what takes it.
How do I know?
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Kingston SSD with several bad blocks and zero reallocated sectors
My Windows 8 installation was freezing randomly and I started to suspect my SSD drive.
After running HD Tune, I got a lot of damaged blocks, but S.M.A.R.T. shows zero reallocated sectors.
I thought ...
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Windows 8 EFI boot issue
I've got a simular problem as described in How can I repair the Windows 8 EFI Bootloader?, but with some different details.
When I tried to change the bootsequence of my harddisks (of which 1 SSD) in ...
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ExpressCache vs. Intel's Rapid Storage and Smart Response Technologies
What is the difference between Samsung's ExpressCache Technology and Intel's Rapid Storage Technology? From the very little I understand about computer hardware, it seems that they both use a small ...
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SSD high Disk Queue length; slow computer - what is the cause or solution?
According to this, disk queue length is the number of hard disk requests stacked up.
I have a laptop with a SSD drive. The disk queue length consistently gets up over 10.00 when doing things like ...
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New OS SSD - unable to boot with it
Yesterday I connected my new 240GB SSD disk which is meant to replace my old 60GB SSD, which is my current OS disk.
I used "Paragon Migrate OS to SSD" to copy the OS (Windows 8) from the 60GB disk to ...
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SATA3 6Gb/s HDD vs SSD [closed]
So I know a SATA3 handles a maximum speed of about 750MB. But when comparing this HDD and this SSD, what would be the difference in terms of read/write speed. Won't they both be using the SATA3 busing ...
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nginx configuration forvideo streaming server
I run nginx for few websites and for video streaming using h264 module from code-shop.com.
When I start or restart nginx it works normally for a while after it starts generating very high load ...
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Save a failing solid-state drive?
I have a solid state drive I'm using for the OS + swap (mac os 10.6.8). Recently, I've seen an increasing rate of kernel panics. If I reboot and run Disk Utility, I can repair the drive, and I get ...
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Dual boot SSD with rapiddrive and separate OS
I have Lenovo Y470 series laptop with Windows 7 home premium installed in 750Gb HDD.
I bought new SSD (Crucial M4 64Gb msata) yesterday and installed it in the slot.
Now i want to partition my SSD ...
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Partitioning / data layout with SSD and HDD in (X)Ubuntu
So my system has a 60GB Mushkin SSD, and a 1TB Seagate HDD. Both of them use SATAIII. I'm going to be using a fresh install of Xubuntu (from Windows), though I haven't ever manually set the ...
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Is it worth buying a SSD disk for a motherboard that only supports SATA I?
The title says it all:
I wanted to make an upgrade to my old computer.
The motherboard only supports SATA 1 (Asus P5GD1 Pro).
Do you think that I can still have significant gains in performance ...
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Raid 0 with Sata 3 and MSata SSDs
I have a Lenovo IdeaPad Y580 laptop, which has an MSata slot for MSata SSDs. The laptop came with a Seagate 5400 RPM 1TB HDD which I put in an external enclosure and installed an AData SP 900 Pro SSD ...
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Is it worth to get a SATA-3 controller to max my SSD out?
I have an OCZ Agility 3 on a Gygabyte GA-P55-UD5 (it only has native SATA-2 support, not SATA-3).
I have to admit performance is already interesting but should be half of total possibilities.
I've ...
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SSD write usage & AntiVirus impact on SSD life
I have the following SSD, a generation 1 OCZ 60 GB Vertex: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227394
I'm currently trying to extend the longevity of it. I've been keeping tabs ...
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Odd HDD issue, should I be worried?
Ok, so I get my build up and running on Friday and everything was working great. I have two drives, a 256GB SDD connected via SATA 3(which is the boot drive.) and a 1 TB 7200RPM connected via SATA 2. ...
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One Step Migration to SSD?
I've read several of the migration guides for moving an existing windows install from a HDD to a SSD.
Steps are basically:
Attach external drive
copy hdd image to drive (conezilla)
install ssd
boot ...
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Wear leveling, Compression and Journaling Filesystem for SD cards [closed]
I'm looking for the ideal filesystem to place in my SD card holding the root of the operating system.
The FS must support journaling in order to provide better data safeness; compression is also ...
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RAID striping on a desktop machine
I currently have a 120Gib SSD which is pretty fast for things like game loading times and video editing.
However, I was wondering about getting another identical drive and hooking it up with a ...
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My hard drive is not showing up
I am having some difficulties.
I just install a new ssd into my desktop and move my old sata drive to be 2nd.
I boot my computer and install windows 7 home premium on my new ssd.
Please note the ...
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How safe is it to run CHKDSK on an SSD?
I recently saw Windows 7 pop up a warning or two that I should run chkdsk on my laptop. My laptop came with an SSD and I'm not sure if there are any negative implications to running chkdsk on such a ...
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Is it necessary to tweak config for a new SSD?
I've read some years-old posts that say you should tweak some options in Windows to get the best performance. But then I read that this is no longer necessary with today's SSDs.
I installed a new ...
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How do I disable the “SECURITY FREEZE LOCK” on my SATA hard disk?
I am sending ATA commands to SATA HDD using IOCTL_ATA_PASS_THROUGH in windows. IDENTIFY DEVICE (ECh) ATA commands returns 256 words of data.
Word 128, Bit 3 is set in the returned data, and according ...
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Why is my Hybrid Disk not Active?
Now that I found out that I do have a hybrid disk (AXM13S2-24GM-B), I'm starting to believe it is not active. Last night I started up Task Manager and I see 2 disks - Disk 0 (C:) and Disk 1.
Disk ...
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In Windows 7, can I create a Symlink or Junction for winsxs or installer folders
I have an SSD as my C:\ drive, and it's only 128 Gig.
I'm noticing that the C:\Windows subfolders "winsxs" and "Installer"--both of which I've read numerous places that one should never delete ...
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Hardware defect detection: Computer crashes after 1 hour
My config:
i5 2500
Asus P8P67 Deluxe
Asus HD6900
16 GB CORSAIR Vengeance
Crucial SSD 60GB
and 2 x 1TB HDD in Raid 0
Everything has been working fine for a year or so on Windows 7. Since Wednesday the ...
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How to transfer C drive with Windows 8 OS to a new hard drive [duplicate]
I have an OCZ Agility 3 SSD capacity 64GB, i bought a new SSD Vertex 4 capacity 128GB, how can i move all my C: drive contents including files \ windows 8 \ mbr \ boot basically everything to the new ...
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Do I have a hybrid hard drive?
I recently purchased a Sony - VAIO T Series Ultrabook 15.5" Touch-Screen Laptop - 8GB Memory - Silver Mist laptop from Best Buy. The specs tell me it comes with SATA (5400 rpm) and SSD (Solid State ...
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Macbook retina 15 partitioning, vital or useless? [closed]
Going to buy rMBP 15" with 512Gb ssd and switch from Linux to Mac.
Friend of mine advised to partition hard drive right after buying and create two partitions.
One for OS and Applications and second ...
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Changing the Hibernate File Location in Snow Leopard
I want to move my hibernate file a non-boot-drive disk. I see that the pmset utility is the way to do this but the documentation says that the file must reside on the boot drive. Does anyone know of ...
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Cannot configure SSD in Disk Management
This is a new laptop with Windows 8 preinstalled.
It has a 1TB HDD + 16 Gigabyte SSD installed on it. I'm trying to use the SSD but I cannot see the drive on my computer.
Then I went into Disk ...
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What if I checked the box “Compress this drive to save disk space” on an SSD?
I was wondering how it would effect an SSD if this was checked:
I was just curious whether it would save my SSD disk space?
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Windows 7 spins up HDD when files should be on SSD
I run 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate off a Corsair 128GB SSD (cmfssd-128gbg2d) and I've got two older HDDs I use for storing media. However even though the operating system and all the programs are ...
