Questions tagged [nvme]
NVMe is a communications interface/protocol developed specially for SSDs.
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Samsung SSD 980 PRO capping out at 510MB/s
I have a Samsung SSD 980 PRO (PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2) which caps out at ~ 510 MB/s write speed (see test details below) which leads me to the conclusion that it is not attached via the NVMe interface but ...
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MSI z390 gaming edge ac m2_1 not detected NVMe
I have a MSI Z390 GAMING EDGE AC with core i9 9900k CPU, 48GB ddr4 3200 G.SKILL (2x 8GB, 2x 16Gb), 2x Samsung Evo Plus 970 (250GB, 2TB), 1x 6T SATA HDD without PCIe graphic card (yet) just onboard GPU....
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Second NVMe Not Visible in Arch (Razer Blade)
I have a Razer Blade 15 Base 2020.
It came with a 512GB Samsung NVMe. I got a second 2TB NVMe. Windows recognized it just fine and initialized it with GPT then I split it in half and set the first ...
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Doesl the spin disk drive and solid-state drive have power loss protection for data durability?
NVMe spec has a feature of power loss protection which flushes cached data to NAND once power loss. But I just want to know that if most the of SSD support this feature and does spin disk drive ...
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Is SD Express more energy efficient than M2 NVMe?
As laptop storage, for example, what would be more energy efficient, the new SD Express class cards or M2 NVMes?
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Can someone please identify this SSD slot
(Please look at the image) : I want to upgrade my laptop with an SSD but I can't identify the type of slot it has, It looks like it is an m.2 NVMe slot but most of the SSDs I have seen online have 5 ...
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Do any 4TB single-sided NVME drives exist? [closed]
I just purchased a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 9, and a Sabrent 4TB Rocket 4 PLUS (SB-RKT4P-4TB). Though both of these are NVME Gen 4, to my chagrin, the NVME drive purchased does not fit into the Thinkpad....
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cant format NVME drive(Write protected)
The hard drive that's in question is a Samsung 970 Evo. Essentially, I was working on a project at home and kicked the cable that the PC was connected to and cold disconnected my PC while it was ...
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What NVME generation does the 9th Generation X1 Carbon support?
Following in the footsteps of this question, if it's not possible to get this data with Linux then where would one find the specs for
ThinkPad X1 Carbon G9, Intel Core i7-1165G7 (2.80GHz, 12MB)
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System freezes irregulary after replacing ssd and reinstalling Debian
When the boot nvme ssd of my server failed and went into read-only mode, I replaced it with a new one and cloned the drive using Clonezilla.
This initially worked, but the system began to freeze after ...
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What type of adapter/enclosure to get from Amazon U.K. for LITEON CL1-3D256-Q11
Friend of mine’s Dell Windows inspiron 2-in-1 laptop/tablet won’t boot, has unbacked up last three years of uni work on it, including his final dissertation of this year. It goes into a windows ...
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NVMe or eMMC as host for my OS on ARM?
I am working with the Jetson AGX Xavier from NVIDIA. When flashing I get the option Storage Device to use the internal SD card (eMMC) or an SSD inserted into the M.2 connector (NVMe)
Both works fine ...
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NVMe drive is only using 1x PCIe lanes when 4x are available
I have a HP ENVY Desktop - 795-0017na which I have upgraded with a Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB drive, using a Silverstone ECM22 adapater to fit it into a PCIe x4 slot on the motherboard. The ...
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Disk Management sees external USB enclosure, but not the SSD inside
I have a 1 Tb M.2 2280 SSD which I have placed in a NVME-to-SATA adaptor, which in turn I have put in an external SATA to USB enclosure. With that configuration I can access the disk without problems. ...
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CORSAIR Strafe Causing No Beep/Video POST Loop?
If this is the wrong Stack Exchange to post this in, please let me know so I can ask the correct community.
Today I successfully cloned a Windows 10 installation from an HDD to a Samsung 980 NVMe SSD ...
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2nd M2 drive being detected in BIOS but not in OS
Asus B550 Plus Tuf Gaming
AMD 5800X
Seagate IronWolf X2 - RAID 1
M2 WD SN850 0.5TB
M2 Sabrent SB-RKTQ-2TB
OS Windows 10
I've added the Sabrent NVME SSD and it gets picked up in BIOS just fine.
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Frequent write errors to new SSD - Faulty hardware or configuration issue?
I replaced the primary boot drive (SSD) on my Alienware 17 R4 a few months ago after it died on me. Since then, my computer will spontaneously just stop fulfilling commands, and eventually grind to a ...
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Unable to install Windows 11 on NVMe Drive
I'm trying to install Windows.
So, when I boot into the Windows installer, and try to select my empty (953.9GB free of 953.9GB storage) NVMe SSD, I get this error:
not enough space:
If I try to ...
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UASP support in the Zephyrus M16: improve ext SSD transfer speeds
I recently bought an Asus ROG Zephyrus M16 (i7 3070 Win10) and it has been blazing fast, as I would expect. The only problem I have encountered its that the write/read speeds of one of my external ...
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Booting Windows off M.2 NVMe doesn’t work even though it is recognized by the BIOS on a dual boot machine
Currently I have a dual boot setup where the two options are booting Windows 10 from my M.2 NVMe or from my other SATA SSD.
When I remove the SATA SSD, I cannot directly boot from the NVMe. The drive ...
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INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE M.2 SATA
I'm absolutely at my wits' end with this issue: I'm getting INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE when cloning a M.2 SATA SSD to an NVMe one. I can always format and reinstall Windows but nevertheless, I would ...
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NVMe SSD health monitoring and desktop alerts?
For my Samsung SSD in one of my windows machines I use Samsung Magician, which (at least in those cases that come with advance SMART signs of course) will give me alerts on SSD health.
My current ...
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FSP Zen power supply flaw or what?
I have an old FSP ZEN 300W power supply (reviewed here). I have a new desktop config that I wanted to utilize this beast for but unfortunatelly failed.
The config consist of a Gigabyte Aorus Pro 550i ...
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Clone m.2 drive windows boot drive [closed]
I am looking for a free way to clone the contents of an existing drive to a larger one.
I would like to replace the current drive with a new one 4 times larger and have it boot windows without ...
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nvme External USB Drive Error ''Request failed due to a fatal device hardware error''
I have an NVME M.2 (Samsung PM871a) and I ca not get access to any data. Its connected to windows 10 pro via USB
externally.
In Disk Management. It shows ‘’Disk 1 Unknown Not Initialized’’ When I ...
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How is it possible that an M.2 NVMe SSD can have higher write IOPS compared to read IOPS?
Sorry, I don't know the right place to ask this question. Meta tells me it is safe to ask here, on SuperUser.com:
Tonight, I was reading a review of the Seagate FireCuda 530 M.2 NVMe SSD here
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Ubuntu 20.04 low write speed samsung evo 970 plus
I have installed samsung evo 970 plus on Ubuntu. The disk is ok and under windows achive 3,4 / 2,4 GB/s, but under ubuntu 3,2 / 0,6 GB/s.
Seems to be strange and I have no clue what to do.
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Do I have to initialize my new SSD before performing backup and partition?
I bought a new NVME SSD to use as my primary/boot drive. My old SSD is going to still be in my PC and be used as extra storage.
I installed the NVME SSD into my PC. It doesn't show up in my file ...
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How do I make my new SSD my primary SSD and keep the old one as a secondary SSD?
I bought an M.2 NVME SSD that I want to install as my primary/boot drive. I currently have a 2.5" SSD in my PC that has a lot of stuff on it. How can I make the NVME SSD my primary drive and make ...
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NVME drive is inaccessible but works after restarting
I upgraded my laptop's (Asus G751JT) Samsung(OEM) NVME with a kingston A2000. Now In two days in a row I encountered drive inaccessible error couple times, during which the Hard drive appeared to be ...
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New PC + NVME SSD with over 1TB Total Host Writes in less than a week, should I be concerned?
I am using a newly build PC (core i5 11th gen, 16gb RAM), with an NVME SSD (WD SN550, 1TB). I ran CrystalDiskInfo and noticed that the Total Host Writes were already over 1TB in less than a week of ...
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Untranslated address in PCIe
I was going through the ATS feature which has been added in PCIe. I came across terms like Untranslated address and Physical address. Essentially the Translation agent on the host will convert ...
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thermal pad on ssd nvme
I buy a SSD Samsung 970 EVO PLUS M.2 2 To.
Do I have to remove the sticker (marked in red on the attached picture) before applying the thermal PAD ?
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NVMe SSD speed almost doubles in safe mode than in normal Windows
NVMe SSD speed almost doubles in safe mode than in normal Windows.
Safe mode:
Normal mode:
This is the SSD: Kingston’s A2000 NVMe PCIe SSD.
Windows is not installed on this drive. Firmware is up to ...
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Unable to convert to GPT to install Windows 10 home
So first I did a factory reset once installing my NVME M.2, and that's when Windows had the first issue of not running. So I tried installing a fresh windows 10.
When trying to make a save location ...
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Motherboard does not recognize PCI express card (Win7)
I have a Gigabyte GA-990fxa-ud3e main board (9 years old, still running strong). I just got a free NVME drive (Toshiba KXG50ZNV256G). The mobo has no support for NVME, so I purchased two different ...
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Linux and Windows report different physical sector size for Intel Optane SSD DC P4801X Series
I have a Intel Optane P4801X. It is a NVMe storage device.
In Linux, the physical sector size reported is 512 bytes:
$ sgdisk -p /dev/nvme0n1
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 195371568 sectors, 93.2 GiB
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Which type of ssd should be the Os/Applicatin drive, project files drive and cache/scratch drive?
My new motherboard I ordered is gigabyte aorus pro ac B550 has 1 NVME Gen-4 and 1 NVME Gen-3 and some SATAs. I want to utilize all the ssd ports. which ssd type should perform which task to utilize ...
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Are 110 MB/s write speeds for an nvme normal?
I am getting 110 MB/s crysitalDiskMark
write speeds on my Asus Strix g15 g513, which has a INTEL 670P SSD the model number is (SSDPEKNU512GZ) they have an advertised 3000 MB/s read speed and 1600 MB/...
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Install 2 PCIe NVMe SSDs in same pc
Am trying to install two PCIe NVMes in my pc with this pcie adapter (aliexpress pcie adapter) with second GPU PCIe slot. When I install both devices only one device (which is installed on motherboard'...
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Gigabyte BRIX GB-BLCE-4000C with M.2 NVMe SSD
According to the specs the Gigabyte BRIX GB-BLCE-4000C has an internal M.2 port. This port is taken by a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth card. For I do require neither Wi-Fi nor Bluetooth for this computer, is it ...
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Hibernation loads the login screen rather than dumping memory to disk and shutting down
Recently, I replaced an old crappy 128GB SATA SSD with a 512GB NVMe SSD on my laptop.
I didn't want to reinstall Windows, so I used Macrium Reflect to clone the entire drive.
Windows didn't like the ...
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Can I use an NVMe to SATA adapter to boot from an NVMe SSD on a laptop that only has a SATA connection?
I have an HP Laptop 15 BS0xx, and I don't think it supports an NVMe SSD.
I looked online and there are a lot of NVMe to SATA adapters.
Will it work if I just use a NVMe to SATA adapter? Will it boot?
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Cannot mount/format/modify NVMe drive
I have this Intel NVMe on a laptop that previously had a Windows installation and was encrypted using an encryption tool. One day it decided that it won't boot to Windows anymore and I decided to just ...
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poor reading performance of SSD drive
I have two SSD (nvme, pcie 4.0) and one SATA disk. One of the SSD seems to be very slow in reading operations - one is getting 2 GB/s and the other one 200 MB/s.
I'm not sure what can be the cause or ...
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nvme to sata adapter
Is there a m.2 nvme to sata 2.5" adapter? Or hasn't it been invented yet?
I have an nvme SSD left over and I have a notebook that needs an SSD so I'd like to avoid buying another one.
It is ...
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how to correctly connect two pcie 4.0 nvme disks on X570 AORUS MASTER
I found out my second SSD disk to be slow and I wonder whether it is connected to the best way possible to my motherboard. I've read the manual but honestly I don't understand the sharing of PCIe ...
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Upgrade M.2 to NVMe
I am using lenovo v310-15ikb. I am using Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SSD, SATA M.2. However, I want to switch to the higher model NVMe, but I am not sure if my computer is compatible.
What is a way to find ...
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Can an nvme/m.2 card be adding as an additional drive to any motherboard?
I'm trying to expand my storage for a gaming pc, and have the option to get a Sandisk 3d ultra ssd or an nvme card for roughly the same price. I would have to buy an nvme to PCIE adapter, of course.
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PCIe lanes for NVMe Memory
I have a NVMe IC which has 2 PCIe lanes. My processor supports only 1 PCIe lane. Can I connect this NVMe memory to my processor? Will it work properly with less bandwidth?
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