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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Is it possible to install a Linux distro into an image file and boot it from an external SSD?
Here is what I want to implement:
Install a Linux distro into an image file, so that I can test it with qemu-img or virtualbox, etc.
Copy the prepared image into an external SSD, and then boot ...
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Windows Storage Spaces 2-Way Mirror behavior in case of a faulty drive
Assuming a simple, fully-provisioned two-way mirror Storage Spaces setup on Windows 10/11, how does it behave when one of the drives gets faulty:
One of the drives cannot read some sectors, and SMART'...
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after power breaks, gparted / fdisk reports that ssd disk has incorrect table. How to fix it
After power breaks, gparted / fdisk reports that ssd disk has incorrect table. How to fix it
In every power break, same thing happens. ssd is off and gdisk says that the table exceeds disk limits. I ...
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How to extend windows partitions, and how to solve C: partition extension issue [duplicate]
The C: drive needs more storage space on my system drive.
When I take some space from D: drive, the space out is a free space,
the space needed is unallocated space to merge it into C: drive.
how can ...
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Reboot and select proper boot device Error
In the morning I was using my desktop without any issues. I left my apartment for about 2 hours, returned back home to find the my mouse and screen frozen.
I restart my computer and get the error: &...
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What are options to set up a new portable SSD for newer and legacy Windows computers?
I bought a new 4TB M.2 NVME and an external M.2 enclosure for it. I want to set this up to be used like portable storage (used like "flash" storage), so that it can be used on a new Win 11 ...
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How to secure specific folders on a portable SSD that works on multiple devices?
I use a portable SSD with different devices such as Windows PCs and Samsung TVs. Some of the folders on the SSD have sensitive or personal data that I want to protect. How can I encrypt, password-...
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Have I been hacked or just paranoid?
I suspect I have been hacked on a different machine and it has now jumped on this one too. I have messed around with some pirated games on my other PC and my PC has been acting a bit strange lately. I ...
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How do you boot Windows 10 from an external SSD and how do you extract HKEY_CURRENT_USER subkeys?
So the following happened:
I installed Linux on my new SSD and when I tried booting the external SSD (containing my old Windows 10) thru an SATA to USB adapter it thought it's a good idea to try to &...
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How to correctly boot into Windows D: drive after cloning
I've recently bought a new SSD and successfully cloned the old HDD and all it's partition to the SSD resulting in a C: and D: drive.
I've added a new boot entry with bcdedit by copying over the ...
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M.2 NVMe SSD with USB-C to M.2 adapter
I have a USB-C to M.2 (key-B) adapter that uses the chipset JMS580 from JMicron. I'm connecting my KingSpec M.2 NVMe SSD (PCIe Gen3 NE series) but it is not recognized by any computer. I can see the ...
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My computer doesn't POST with all 8 ram slots filled
I'm using an upgraded HP workstation xw6600, although the only changes are the GPU (AMD Radeon HD 7850) and another 2 SSDs.
About 2 months after adding my second SSD, I went to turn on my pc, but it ...
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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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How to access data on an external ssd drive with MBR only?
My old laptop's display died, so I took its SSD and connected it to another laptop with Ubuntu 22.04 externally via USB using M2 SSD case. There should be two operating systems: Windows and Ubuntu on ...
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SMART: UltraDMA selected jumps back and forth between 5 and 6
Every time I am viewing SMART-Data of my SATA SSD (Samsung 870 EVO 2TB) with Disk Checkup software I see different value of "UltraDMA selected" parameter. It is times 5 times 6. May be it ...
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SSD I/O errors & fails self tests
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The Windows 10 PRO couldn't boot normally, BSOD occurred & self system recovery couldn't fix the problem. It was possible to boot Windows in safe mode, however.
The ADATA SU750 SSD was ...
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How to detect Intel SSD that freeze on boot on Thinkpad T450?
Few days ago, after starting my laptop, all i saw was frozen To interrupt normal startup, press Enter screen. No response to the keys, only few times after 3-5 mins i got also Error 2100: HDD0 (Hard ...
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What is the "TA Increase Count" (SMART Data)
On the SMART drive health/status scan (for an SSD drive), one thing "TA Increase Count" is flagged up, with a value of 97. What is it actually a count of?
The SSD is a Crucial SSD. When I'm ...
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Reason that SSD read speed very low when moving large files out of SSD on Windows 10
The device is WDS100T2B0A.
Western Digital Dashboard show the wear as 4%.
Windows 10 is smooth. But when moving large files such as .vmdk files out of the SSD, the read speed is only ~2MB/s, and the ...
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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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What is the difference between regular and console SSDs
I believe this is on topic here, since it's specifically about hardware, although it does touch on consoles, which I recognise as off topic.
That said, I'm looking to get a new M2 SSD for my computer, ...
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PC starts a booting process then shuts down and repeats (after installing new parts)
so I ran into a problem today.
After I installed everything into my new case and some new parts. When I went to change my ram speeds and save it to 3000MHz my PC enters a boot attempt then shuts down ...
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Conbee II on /dev/ttyACM0 on Raspi not found
I've got a new Raspberry Pi 4B running on a SSD, fresh install.
Now I try to setup my Conbee2 stick, it connects, is visible with lsusb and with removing+adding it shows with dmesg, but trying to ...
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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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Swapping the contents of 2 drives with Windows Explorer without needing to copy-and-delete?
I have local 2 drives, neither of them my Windows boot drive:
A 2TB HDD, drive letter E:. Contains about 300GB of data.
A 1TB SSD, drive letter F:. Contains about 4GB of data.
I want to swap the ...
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computer booting then reporting no drive
Im having a very odd problem with a windows computer.
bios reports 2 nvme ssds in raid 0, leaving bios the computer will boot into windows and will fully enter windows (past sign-in page) but after a ...
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Is my SSD failing, and should I try to warranty return it?
In May 2021, I purchased a 2.5" SATA SSD for my HP Elitebook 840 G3 laptop. The SSD is "Samsung 870 EVO 500GB SATA 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)" part code "MZ-77E500B/...
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M.2 SSDs detected after boot, but not after windows restart
I have a custom built computer with an ASROCK Z790 Pro RS/D4 mainboard and three M.2 SSDs:
One 1 tb Kingston and two 2 tb Mushkin Tempest.
When I boot my computer everything works fine. However, when ...
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Can I recover accidently deleted files on an SSD External Drive running Windows 10 Home?
I accidently deleted files from a WD external SSD hard drive. Running OS is Windows 10. I have scanned the drive with two separate on-line file recovery (Stellar & Recoverit) packages and both ...
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Move Linux system to new SSD alongside with Windows
I've got a new PC with a new SSD #2. They preinstalled the Windows on it and I'm cool with it.
However, I have a Linux system on my old SSD #1 and I want to keep that data. The problem is I've only ...
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Can Windows XP be run on an SSD as a VMWare guest OS?
I know similar has been asked before, there is a lot of information around pertaining to Windows XP being installed on a SSD.
I can understand that Windows XP was not made for SSD, OK it was released ...
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Linux dd command
I need to clone a faulty SSD. There are some I/O errors on the device. I would like to use a Linux dd command to make a copy.
I have some questions therefore.
What would be the best bs value in terms ...
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Samsung NVMEs always scrambling data using encryption key?
I have made major changes to my body of text and title to clarify the question and the situation. Apologies for any confusion.
I recently purchased a Samsung 990 Pro NVME. It supports encryption, ...
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If a NVMe SSD has been used about 75%, will this effect it's write speed test?
I have a NVMe SSD Kingston KC3000, PCIe 4.0. In Windows 10 it says 1.86 TB large, and I used about 75% of it, with 483 GB space left.
Recently when I boot my PC the first time everyday it always goes ...
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better hdd or ssd for long term storage [duplicate]
regarding resistance to data corruption over the years which of the two technologies is currently more reliable? so I'm not interested in reliability in daily use but the ability to maintain data ...
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Can't find my disk after diskpart clean
I have a PC with an SSD encrypted with BitLocker, I forgot the Admin password, and lost my BitLocker recovery key. I decided to reinstall Windows and wipe the SSD, but the Windows installer couldn’t ...
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Remove defect SSD and start from new SSD in new slot
Unfortunately my original SSD (or slot) of my HP Zbook Studio G4 is defect and results in sudden crashes (blue screens and then a 3F0 error). Therefore I would like to install a new SSD in my second ...
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Seemingly random slow SSD disk speed
I have problems with slow disks that I can't solve.
I have Windows installed on a Kingston Fury Renegade M.2. I have a new Samsung 870 QVO and an old Samsung 840 Pro.
When I first installed the new ...
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GRUB sees NVME SSD but Linux does not
The system was working then suddenly freezed and didn't boot up.
After some wrestling with power button it eventually started up but Linux stuck in initramfs cli. Guess this happend in the chroot ...
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If a hard drive is dying, is it a bad idea to use a backup created by its (Windows 10) OS?
I believe my hard drive (let's call it C1) is dying: chkdsk /f on my C drive freezes/locks the process at a certain %. A few months ago I ran this process successfully and it found and fixed errors. ...
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If I remove SSD from laptop and put it in external enclosure, can I boot same laptop from it and access files?
My laptop (Thinkpad P51s) is no longer seeing its NMVe SSD (apparently some connector issue). I'm planning to use an external enclosure to retrieve my data, but I'm wondering whether it's possible to ...
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Linux on Dell Optiplex 3020 + Unsupported NVMe Boot - No HDD lights
I have a SFF Dell 3020 at work, which originally came with a 7200 RPM hard disk. I use Linux as my main OS, so naturally I upgraded the thing to a SATA SSD (a Kingston A400). Everything went fine, but ...
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When the storage device is formatted with NTFS, the file tunneling system does not work
Currently, I am experiencing a problem that some HDDs and SSDs formatted with NTFS do not have the file tunneling system working, so when I save files I have worked on to those disks, the creation ...
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Fixing NTFS on SSD after corruption by windows cache
This must be a well known issue, so I'm looking for a fix if it exists.
I'm using windows 10. I had an SSD in my desktop that had an NTFS partition with no files.
I shut down the PC, removed the disk ...
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Is there a M.2 NVME extension cable? (+ considerations on using them)
I am looking for an NVME extension cable, because there is hardware position conflict, and I would like to avoid using hacky solutions such as taping my NVME SSD on a surface I'm not too sure would be ...
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Dell's message that my SSD harddrive is nearing end of life while CrystalDiskInfo says it's good. Who do I believe?
I have a Dell Inspiron which is almost 5 years old. It has one Disk which is a 256GB SSD.
Dell's Support Assist Program says my Harddisk is failing.
OTOH, CrystalDiskInfo says health of my Disk is ...
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Single SSD in RAID10 array has Wear_Leveling_Count issue
I run a RAID10 machine with 4x Samsung 480GB SSD's. The drives are of identical age.
3 of the drives have a Wear_Leveling_Count 090, but one is now as low as 003. I don't understand why one of the ...
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SSD in read only mode after power failure
I have a SSD NVME 2 TB and after a power failure in entire neighborhood my SSD show issues. It has 2 partitions: NTFS (390.62 GiB) and BTRFS (1.44 TiB). I have checked system in both Windows and Linux,...
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NTFS Drive visible only from Linux
I have a 1TB Teamgroup GX2 SSD, I partitioned it into a ~150GB btrfs partition for linux and a 850GB partition for Windows. Then Windows stopped seeing the larger partition, although at the same time ...
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Boot option showing 2x HDD with same name when I only have 1x SSD installed in my notebook
I have installed Pop OS on the only SSD I have in my laptop, but when I enter boot options, I see two HDD devices with the same name - is this normal? Did encrypting the SSD during the OS installation ...
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