Questions tagged [samsung-ssd]
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SSD sata 2.5 inch drive - how to identify fault
I have a SATA 2.5 inch Samsung 1TB SSD drive (870QVO). I am have put the computer innards into a new case and I found that in the new case the computer would not start with the drive attached. Fans ...
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Windows 10 computer taking longer to boot after cloning old SSD to an upgraded SSD
Somewhat recently I cloned the SSD that came preinstalled with my Dell G15 laptop to a 2TB Samsung 980 Pro. The clone was done using Samsung Magician.
The procedure was extremely straightforward and ...
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Is there a negative impact on an SSD drive if I power cycle it every hour for 6 months?
We have a system that uses an SSD (4TB Samsung 860 Pro) that we power on for 10 minutes to write data to and then off every hour for 24/7 for about six months via a Linux system. We manually turn on ...
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SSD stopped booting after chkdsk
I have a 3 month old Samsung 980 Pro 2TB SSD installed in my MicroCenter PowerSpec G419 from years ago. It was working nicely for those 3 months - I had used Samsung Magician to migrate from my old ...
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0xc000000f Issue: Samsung SSD not Showing Under Boot Priority
This is what the blue screen says:
Your PC/Device needs to be repaired
A required device isn't connected or can't be accessed
Error code 0xc000000f
You'll need to use recovery tools. If you don't have ...
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Remove Toshiba Laptop HDD/SSD password
I own a Toshiba (Dynabook) Portege X30-D-19E Laptop with a built-in SSD which I secured with an HDD/SSD password in the BIOS that I want to remove now.
So there is no BIOS password set, but it says ...
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Linux, SSD, TRIM - Not working? (hdparm, Samsung)
MY SSD is working but TRIM may not be.
I'm running Fedora 36 with BTRFS. I installed a Samsung SSD 980 PRO 2TB SSD firmware version 5B2QGXA7 as a secondary drive that does not auto mount, as intended. ...
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Lenovo g480 SSD appears and disappears randomly
I have Lenovo g480 and its specs:
I5-3210m, 8gb ram, Nividia gt610m, Samsung Evo 870 SSD, 650gb HDD
I have win 10 installed on the whole SSD in UEFI mode the problem was when the laptop shutdown ...
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How to remove forced disk read only mode? (failure might be imminent msg on boot)
Woke my PC up from sleep and got blue screen. On reboot it said that my boot disk's failure is imminent and didn't let me chose it as a boot disk even when I tried to force it through bios. I hooked ...
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After hibernation, USB SSD shows under "remove safely" but not in file explorer - until reboot
Usage scenario:
Arrive at work, wake PC from hibernate-to-disk, plug in my WD Elements USB SSD.
See it's not shown in file explorer nor disk management, but it does show up in the systray USB icon ...
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Samsung 980 PRO confirmed faulty - Need to get a few video files off
I have a 2TB Samsung 980 PRO which has been confirmed faulty by samsung, it fails the samsung magician diagnostic software without even completing.
I assume the drive has some bad sectors, I've ...
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Cannot boot from Samsung SSD 950 EVO after Samsung Magician's Data Migration finished
There's this Samsung Magician software that Samsung recommends to use with its Samsung SSD 950 EVO drives and they provide this feature - Data Migration. Idea is that it can take a system drive with ...
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reformatting my ssd from ps4 to PC (windows 11)
I have a portable SSD I would like to use to store games on. I have used this ssd on my PS4 and now want to use it on my PC but i can't seem to open it on my PC the only thing i can do with it is ...
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windows11 installation: can't read my storage - need storage driver
I want to install Windows 11 on my system. But it wants a storage driver and it can't read my storage (in partitioning level).
My storage is a Samsung MZVLQ1T0HBLB-00B00 nvme ssd (asus tuf dash f15).
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Unable to verify Samsung 870 EVO SSD 500GB
I have purchased a brand new Samsung 870 EVO SSD 500GB from local vendor in my city. From the over all looks and performance of the SSD it is working great. But Samsung Magician is unable to verify ...
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Force Mount Samsung 970 SSD in linux
My OS NVME SSD drive went into "Read Only" mode once the "Available Spare" threshold was hit. The superblock seems to be bad, but I'm pretty sure most of the drive is otherwise OK....
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NVMe M.2 SSD keeps disappering every now and then whenever PC reboots
I have HP Z2 SFF G4 Workstation Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz 3.19 GHz with Windows 10 Pro 21H2. I have installed dropbox on NVME samsung SSd 970 SCSI 2GB and manually assigned it drive ...
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Adaptor from NVMe M.2 SSD to SATA?
I am trying to upgrade the storage:
The existing storage is a 256GB SSD, model Samsung PM871b M.2 2280, installed on an adaptor to SATA, and I guess it is Next Gen Form Factor.
I purchased a 1TB SSD ...
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Drive apprear had random pariotions appear duplicating another drive after reinstalling windows
So I had 2x1TB SSD's and 1HD. One has windows on it and 2 others have encrypted partitions.
I just reinstalled windows 10. Afterwards, I found that my MBR and system partitions were on the second ...
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Windows 10 SSD maintenance/defragmentation/compression query
I have a 1TB Samsung EVO SSD as my system drive (Windows 10). I let it get almost full and paid the price - performance writing new files dropped off by a factor of something like a thousand.
I ...
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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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SSD Drive High active time, sluggish launch of programs, right click file slow
I noticed that my Samsung SSD 850 EVO started getting sluggish when
I launch any of my programs.
When I check the disk usage I constantly get spikes and my active time is hovering in the 80% range ...
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SSD - One Partition is not accessible and the other one is ok
I have two Samsung 860 EVO 1TB SSD installed in my system. Both SSDs have got two partitions each.
No RAID configuration. SSD running in AHCI mode (Tried IDE. did not not make any difference in this ...
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Windows 10 stuck at restart after SSD clone
So I recently upgraded to SSD from HDD for my OS and successfully cloned my Win10. I can log into win10 and everything works just fine. So far so good. Now the problem is, when I try to restart my PC, ...
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How can I log TBW per process (even if not so accurate)?
One of my SSD's TBW is rising much more rapidly than the TBW on my other SSDs (for comparison: in 2 months I wrote more data than I did in a whole year and a half in another SSD).
While Task Manager ...
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Why does Samsung Magician write so much data
I've installed a Samsung SSD recently and have been keeping an eye on the total data written from the Magician dashboard (7.0.0.510). In doing so over the past few days I've notice it jumping about 20 ...
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Samsung 970 EVO Plus running half speed
My SSD (Samsung 870 Evo Plus) reaches maximum speeds of 1700 MB/s instead of the 3200 advertised.
I checked with hwinfo and it says PCI-E 3.0, max Width 4x current link w. 4x, max speed 8GT/s
So my ...
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Why is the Samsung firmware ISO I downloaded 16MB in size, but when burned to a device it only shows 94KB?
I followed these official instructions from Samsung and downloaded unetbootin and the ISO for my Samsung 960 EVO 250GB. I burned it with unetbootin and rebooted but there was nothing to boot from.
I ...
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Reset Smart values to factory defaults for a Samsung NVMe SSD?
Here https://askubuntu.com/a/687455/974560 is a quesion regarding resetting smart values to factory defaults on old spinning S-ATA disks. In the comments is a link to a youtube video which is not ...
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SSD keeps disappearing after a shutdown
I am having a strange problem, which started recently. I have an ASUS STRIX G G531GT Gaming Laptop, recently I have upgraded my second HDD from a Seagate SSHD to Samsung SSD 870 QVO.
Now my problem, ...
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How does Samsung’s secure erase tool actually work?
I’ve seen so much debate surrounding what specifically Samsung magician’s secure erase tool for their consumer ssds actually does. It seems like everyone agrees that using the bootable USB media wipes ...
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Very low random IOPS reported on SSDs
I have two Samsung SSDs in my computer, an 840 Pro and 860 Evo, reporting very low random IOPS numbers, about 1/5 of the nominal, connected via a SATA3 interface, using an i7-3770K CPU in a P8Z77-V ...
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Linux tools don't work with Samsung PSSD T7
Samsung Portable SSD T7 doesn't seem to work well with Linux tools. The drive is recognized by the OS and basic functions work fine.
However, hdparm won't report anything about the drive:
SG_IO: bad/...
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Restore Samsung SSD to factor default settings
I just installed a workstation specific windows 7 64 on Samsung evo 870 ssd drive. The windows made 3 partitions. I need to make a clean install of a consumer windows 10 over this drive - I wonder how ...
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Samsung 980 Pro M.2 - Can't enable encrypted drive
I've just installed a new 980 Pro M.2 SSD in my Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming.
After re-installing windows 10, I installed Samsung Magician in order to enable Encrypted Drive.
In Samsung Magician it ...
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Enable bitlocker hardware encryption without reinstalling Windows 10 pro
Is it possible to enable Bitlocker hardware encryption (on a Samsung pro SSD) without having to re-install Windows 10 pro?
A similar question was asked here but was too vague and closed.
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External SSD formating parameters, usage and monitoring on Windows 10
I have a brand new Samsung T5 1Tb SSD, that I will use for back-up of files on my laptops, as well as main drive for photos and music collection. Before starting to use it, I did some searching/...
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Why is M.2 SSD so slow?
I feel very upset and robbed, after having purchased 2x 1TB Samsung Evo 970 SSDs, with declared 2500+ read and write speed.
Reality is 3 to 8 MB/s:
Like really, what is this joke all about ? I've ...
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Would you reformat a brand new external SSD (Samsung T5) or just use out-of-the-box
I just purchased a brand new 1Tb Samsung T5 SSD.
When I previously bought an external HDD, I often reformatted it, using NTFS or different sector sizes, etc. Maybe it just seemed the "cool nerdy ...
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Use M2 SSD NVME as an external drive to boot Windows 10
I have a *Samsung M2 SSD NVME * drive with Windows 10 on it. Can I use this drive in combination with an external enclosore (like this ICY BOX) to boot into Windows 10 on a ThinkPad x230?
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Is the Samsung 960 SSD 'firmware-saga' unsolvable on linux?
I am stuck with a Samsung 960 EVO with the 3B6QCXP7 firmware vision that causes system hangups and elusive performance problems and there are thousands of threads on the internet about it. I am on ...
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Is Samsung 970 EVO SSD compatible with Gigabyte GA-250M-DS3H
The Samsung 970 EVO SSD is currently on sale for Cyber Monday and I'm looking to purchase it. I just want to confirm that it will be compatible with my motherboard. I have a Gigabyte GA-250M-DS3H. ...
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Bitlocker: Cannot auto-unlock USB drive. "The drive cannot be encrypted..."
My system drive (C:) and external USB drive (D:) are both encrypted with Bitlocker.
I can unlock the D: drive with the password. However I cannot get it to auto-unlock. Checking the box doesn't do ...
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How to properly use Samsung Magician on macOS in Parallels Desktop? How can I flash Samsung firmware on a MacBook Pro?
I have a 2019 MacBook Pro running macOS Catalina. I have a Samsung 840 EVO 750GB SSD that used to be the internal drive of a different MacBook Pro before its logic board died. I've repurposed this 840 ...
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Should I worry about high ssd temperature?
I am using a new ssd and I installed CrystalDiskInfo, it shows good as health status but the temperature is very high it is 95 degree C. Should I worry about that and how can I solve this problem?
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Adding additional SSD vs cloning and replacing existing SSD speed/performance
I want to upgrade my laptop (Dell G3 Gaming Laptop) hard drive.
It came with a 512 GB SSD which is currently installed
I just bought the 970 Evo Plus 2 TB which is considerably faster
The motherboard ...
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300GB of phantom data on my Samsung 970 EVO M.2 and no option to format: Is there anything else I can do?
The problem:
So something really weird is going on with my Samsung 970 EVO M.2 SSD. Opening the drive and ensuring hidden files are shown, it's empty:
but looking in the properties panel it's also ...
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Sintech NGFF M.2 with MacBook Pro Retina 2013: Hibernation doesn't work
I bought the NGFF M.2 PCIe SSD Card as 2013 2014 2015 MacBook SSD adapter adapter (https://www.amazon.com/Sintech-Adapter-Upgrade-2013-2015-MacBook/dp/B01CWWAENG) and I'm using it with a Samsung EVO ...
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Macbook Chimes Multiple Times Before Booting, After SSD Upgrade
I've recently upgraded the ssd in my Mid 2013 MacBook Air, to a Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVMe. Ever since the upgrade, when I start the computer, it makes the "bong" noise multiple times before ...
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Acer predator helios 300 ph315-51-78np SSD upgrade
Before asking this question I have done research and did not find an appropriate answer.
My laptop model is Acer predator helios 300 ph315-51-78np with 16GB ram and 256GB SSD (with windows ...
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