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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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Windows 10 disk layout for single SSD: do I need a separate data partition?

I have new 250 GB SSD and want to install Windows 10 on it (after replacing previous died SSD). I wonder do I need a separate data partition (d: for projects, video, music) from Windows partition (c:)...
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Cloning fail and missing SSD volume

I have WIn10 and a Samsung 250GB SSD. Since the SSD was almost full I bought another to use for extra storage. I followed the Samsung instructions for cloning but it was VERY slow, would have taken ...
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Windows 10 won't boot via UEFI after fresh install

I'm running into a strange issue with a Dell Inspiron 3455 AIO system that came with Windows 10 pre-installed. I started by booting the system up with the existing hard drive to make sure everything ...
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I would like to buy a SSD but before, I want to know something

So I would like to have a SSD and I would like to know if you can store the data of your programs on a HDD. So my SSD would be used just to run the OS mainly. Would it be worth getting a SSD and using ...
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Bitlocker & Hardware encryption on Samsung EVO 850

I have SSD of Samsung 850 EVO, it support hardware encryption. On SSD drive I have multiple partition, one for SYSTEM (C:) and one for DATA (D:). I want use hardware encoding with bitlocker for ...
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M.2 SSD disappeared from Windows, can't install Windows 10 version 1703

I have a new Fujitsu D957, which comes as standard with an M.2 SSD. The company I bought it from have added, at my request, two SATA SSDs and configured them in RAID-1, and made Windows 10 Pro boot ...
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Lenovo Legion Y720-15IKB SSD replacement

Hi I currently own the Lenovo Legion Y720-15IKB, which has a 1TB hard drive and a 128GB SSD. I want to replace my current SSD with a Samsung M.2 960 EVO 500GB SSD. I understand how to actually replace ...
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Windows 7 Clone HDD to SSD – System unstable issue

I have seen many questions about Windows crashes after changing to SSD, but none that explain my issue.  In the last week I have replaced Graphics card, RAM and now added an SSD.  I have Windows 7 ...
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Would it be better to overwrite files that I don't need with nothing

Main goal: Delete specific files without the use of CCleaner and Eraser in the shortest time possible without decreasing the life of a SSD drive. Here's the thing. I have my C:\ drive and it's an SSD....
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Is there a way to know how many times an SSD cell have been written?

When the system writes a SSD cell, does it increase a counter somewhere for each cell or in the MFT? If yes, is there a way to know the counter of the cells, like a graph map of each cells ordered by ...
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Regular freezes on my Asus Zenbook laptop

I've been using an ASUS UX310U NotebookPC equipped with W10 for a year. For a few months my PC has randomly freezed for some seconds or has even crashed (blue screen). I've checked my SSD and my HDD ...
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Did I burnout my graphics card?

I have a computer that I built about 4 years ago, with a few variously upgraded parts. The GPU is 1.5 year old Nvidia GTX 980 ti, and about 2 weeks ago I put in a Samsung 850 EVO SSD. I'm still using ...
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Windows 10 Activation when swapping hard drives

I'm in the process of building a new PC but slowly, as I only buy the components when I have extra cash due to overtime but because of this, it could be a few months before I have everything together. ...
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Swap memory on SSDs

Swap memory isn't very worth it in a HDD because of the low writing speed. However with the increasing popularity of SSD, and their faster writing/reading speeds, Does having a swap memory on a SSD ...
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Would Optane drive or SSD benefit more when web browsing is slow?

I have a specific performance issue, which is that I tend to have many windows with many tabs open (across both FireFox and Chrome). This leads to frequent stalls/freezes, presumably when either (a) ...
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Is my SATA controller failing?

My Windows 10 desktop has just recently randomly started freezing up completely - any windows that are open cannot close, and opening a program does nothing. Not even task manager can open. When this ...
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Why is a database access much faster on SSD even when everything fits into main memory?

By a mistake a wrote a piece of code which fetched 1000 table rows one by one instead of at once. It was tested on four pretty idle Linux machines running mysql: two of them using an HDD and two using ...
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Troubleshooting an MSATA drive

I have a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 with a broken screen which I thought I'd use as some type of server at home. It's MSATA drive doesn't seem to be working, however, there is no real reason for it to ...
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Windows 10 averaging over 50GB of writes/day to SSD over 9 months

Update: Moving the following folders off drive then symlinking them eliminated the constant writing to C:. %LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome - Easily the biggest consumer. %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\...
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Trying to install Windows on an M.2 drive

I just bought new disks for my computer and got an M.2 SSD as well. I was thinking about doing a fresh installation of Windows, and using the M.2 SSD as a Windows drive. I put my bootable USB into ...
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how to securely wipe an AWS EBS volume (mag drive and SSD)

I have an SLES 12 SP1 system running on AWS. I need to "wipe" the EBS volumes before deprovisioning them as a customer requirement. The data is sensitive in a commercial way only (no TLAs). Is shred ...
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Will cloneing current SSD C: drive to larger capacity drive cause software (licensing) problems?

I currently have a Windows 10 PC with an SSD C: drive which is running low on space. (Note: second HD is standard drive containing D:, F:, and H: and I'm not planning to do anything on with it/them.) ...
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m.2 SATA to PCIe adapter [closed]

I bought two m.2 SATA SSD SanDisk SSD x400 128Gb. But my motherboard Asus Maximus IX Hero has only one m.2 SATA port m.2.1. Second m.2 port m.2.2 accept only PCIe devices. Now I want to buy m.2 ...
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SSD shown as 1073MB (instead of 256GB)

I've an issue with an SSD of mine. It's been a while since I haven't used it. I don't really remember what was on it (probably a linux distrib), I mostly used it to try stuff and boot random computers....
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Does Windows 10 OEM License will work if I replace the HDD and install the windows from Microsoft ISO [duplicate]

I have a Lenovo Ideapad 310 which sometimes going 100% Hard disk usage. I research on the internet and found out removing "system interface" software make work fine. I did it and performance of system ...
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Identical SSDs on same port: Why is one SATA/600 and the other SATA/150?

Overview Over the course of a few months I purchased two of the same SSD from different stores (both 960GB SandDisk SSD PLUS, same firmware(Z33110RL) - just waited for them to be on sale) with the ...
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Internal SATA vs. PCIe-NVMe: Any compatibility?

I'm looking at the Lenovo T470p laptop that allows either a SATA storage drive or a PCIe-NVMe drive. Thing is, I already have a SATA SSD I'd want to use internally for now, but I want to be able to ...
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BitLocker asks for recovery key every time on boot on SSD

I did it: http://www.ckode.dk/desktop-machines/how-to-enable-windows-edrive-encryption-for-ssds/ (enabled encryption using TPM module and BitLocker using SSD build-in encryption) and after that I ...
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How do I install an SSD drive that comes without a casing in a desktop computer?

SSD drives are sometimes installed in laptops and tablets in the form of bare logic boards without any type of casing or enclosure. Do I need to buy a special case for one of those if I want to ...
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Can my laptop and my desktop share an SSD

I'm running Windows 10 on my desktop's primary drive (128GB SSD). The desktop has an i5 Kaby Lake and a 1060 while the laptop has an older generation i3 or i5 and a GTX710m. Can I take my SSD and use ...
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Is my SSD about to break

I have a laptop with an SSD and recently it has been giving me weird errors and I'm not sure whether it is software based or hardware based. Therefore I checked my SSD using the smartctl tool: [root@...
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How do I make a VM discover physical hard drives? [duplicate]

I have an SSD where I store all of my virtual disks on. I also have an 8TB drive I want to use to store all of the VM data. Example: Im running pfsense with web caching. Pfsense is on a virtual disk ...
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SSD freezing with event ID 153 (SRB_STATUS_ERROR)

My 4 years old OCZ Agility 4 is hiccuping after being moved to a different system. This SSD was my main drive until a month ago and I first noticed the "Event ID 153 - The IO Operation at logical ...
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Using "broken" junction link to block writes

So I wanted to stop Spotify from caching to my SSD (I have a small 60 GB drive), but apparently it's not possible to disable caching. Spotify keeps the cache in the %LocalAppData%\Spotify\Data folder....
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SSD suddenley stopped working, displaying it to be 32kb in size

One morning my laptop froze so I forcefully shut it down. Afterwards I was no longer able to boot into my operating system. Now when I run fdisk -l on a live distribution it shows up as: Disk /dev/...
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Fedora 25 GNU/Linux - find missing disk space and resize LVM

I've installed Fedora Server 25 64-bit using LVM and automatic disk partitioning. Automatically created /root volume was too small (16 GB) and a lot of free space was left and still available on the ...
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SSD causing issues with computer freezing

I have a Dell XPS 15 L521X. The computer will freeze when booting or starting up. I have opened up the laptop and found the issue, my SSD. When the SSD is out and unplugged from the laptop, the laptop ...
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Can I install Windows 10 on an SSD without the SATA to USB cable and doing so on a single-disk laptop?

I have an Asus laptop with room for only one harddrive. I wish to replace my HDD with a Samsung EVO 850 SSD. However, I do not have the SATA to USB cable... I plan to Reset my ASUS to factory ...
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Will M.2 NVMe or itegrated graphics slow discrete graphics cards

I'm about to build Linux machine for Deep Learning. Relevant parts: ASRock Z270 KILLER SLI/AC Core i7 7700 2x GTX 1060 1TB M.2 Evo 850 NVMe SSD Deep Learning involves running CUDA based algorithms ...
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Windows programs slow down but anything else

So here is my strange problem: after a couple of minutes running servals programs like games and/or web browser, my computer seams to slow down windows applications like Explorer, Task Manager ect... ...
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Windows 7 blue screen at start up

I opened my PC and tried to open photoshop , then suddenly my PC restarted itself , so when it booted i tried again to open photoshop. Then i had blue screen and restart.It opened normally,I tried ...
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Shrink volume - Error: parameter incorrect - Window 10

I've just buy a new HP laptop (PC) with 256Gb SSD storage running Window 10, and I'm trying to split my C drive into 2 partitions. In the Computer Management window under Storage >> Disk Management ...
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Can I use any SSD in any laptop?

Pre-Context: I'm good with software but newbie in hardware. I had issues replacing memory for notebook, I found out that there are several models and types of ram memory, and stuffes like voltage, ...
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Windows 10 installation with Ryzen 5

I am frustrated. I just assembled a PC with the following setup: Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6C MSI B350M Gaming Pro AM4 Motherboard Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-3000 Clocked at ...
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Explain `fstab` swap syntax

Disk sda is SSD, while sdb is a conventional hard drive. # cat /proc/swaps Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/sda1 ...
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MacBook Pro 2016 SSD and Batter Life time

SSD I have MacBook Pro late 2016 model with 2 TB SSD. I am concerned about SSDs life. I did some search and found some useful information like SSD will last minimum 10 years And Daily usage (read/...
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Why is my new PC 40% slower to calculate and write a grid surface?

I've just updated a PC to do scientific calculations more quickly. The focus of the change was to step up to the Nvidia 1080Ti from the 980Ti. Now I'm running a test model. I get the following ...
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How many GB of data can be written to an 80GB Intel 320 series SSD? [duplicate]

I bought a used 80GB SSD on eBay and checked it with CrystalDiskInfo. Its saying 36,000GB have been written on the SSD. How much data can be written before failure?
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Reduce Windows Error Reporting files / filesize?

My WER is 8GB . I have an SSD, so I imagine having 8GB of errors reported (most of them warning, as I can see) is quite a bit writting on the SSD. I never needed it. But I don't want to turn the ...
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Can I make hardware changes to a new laptop before switching it on for the first time? [closed]

Is it ok to replace the 1tb hdd in an alienware 15 r3 laptop with a samsung 860 evo before the laptop is switched on for the first time.
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