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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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Using M.2 drives on a PCIe X16 adapter card

I purchased four M.2 NVME Gen 4 4Tb SSDs and a MPG Z690 Carbon WIFI motherboard. I want to do everything possible to produce the fastest read/write speeds from the individual drives. To be clear, I do ...
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SSD disk active time 100 percent frequently on idle

I am using windows 11 and I have 2TB M.2 NVME SSD on my laptop. My disk active time is regularly hitting 100 percent on idle. Even tho there is almost no read and write activity at all. Even when my ...
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Why does the write speed of my SSD significantly decrease after writing to it for a few minutes? [duplicate]

I have more than 20 SSDs from Crucial, Samsung, and other companies. Let's take the example of my Samsung 970 Plus 2TB which I use with a 10 Gbps USB C enclosure. On the product page it says that the ...
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smartctl NVMe SSD : what is "Maximum Data Transfer Size"?

I just noticed a Maximum Data Transfer Size spec on both my NVMe SSDs (128 pages in one case, and 64 pages in another). What exactly is this ? Is it the same as EBS (Erase Block Size, see Is partition ...
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SSD cannot be recognised on Windows and LInux

I recently bought a new SSD to replace the one in my laptop. I took the old SSD out and stuck it in an external enclosure, planning to use it as an external drive. When I first plugged it in to ...
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Using Isopropyl alcohol to clean SSD, CPU/GPU sockets [closed]

Wanted to ask after reading this other question. there are visible signs of moisture on or bear components of a laptop after the machine was exposed to steam/water vapor and you are concerned about ...
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Logitech G502 lightspeed adapter disconnects after disk migration on Debian 12

Recently I treated myself to a 1TB NVMe SSD to replace my very old Samsung 750 500Gb SSD. I cloned my debian 12 install to the new disk using clonezilla's disk-to-disk, expand partition setting. apart ...
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Can i change my C drive from my SSD to my HDD?

Like the title says I want to move my OS from my solid-state to my hard drive. Are there any drawbacks to this is don't mind the slower boot speed but will it affect anything else and is it possible ...
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I try to install batocera on the internal hard drive from boot usb but it doesn't work

I have a mini PC with an Intel Atom processor (I'm not at home now, when I return I will edit the question adding the model), 2 Gb of RAM and a 30 Gb internal SSD. I mounted the batocera image for ...
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ASUS Laptop Move from HDD to SSD with original windows 7 and OEM Partition

my laptop: ASUS; Windows 7 Home edition sp1 2009 original; 25 GB partition for Windows OEM for factory recovery; MBR 700GB HDD Drive. HDD has bad sectors: over 40KB per partition. But Windows ...
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Why is rsync slower within my SSD than to an external HDD?

I have partitioned my primary SSD, and mounted two partitions in my /media directory. rsync between these two partitions are slower than rsync-ing the same files to an external HDD, and I don't ...
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SSD appears in UEFI BIOS but won't boot

I have a PC with an Asus ROG Strix B350-F Gaming Motherboard with a Ryzen 5 2600 processor. I have a 1TB Samsung NvME SSD on this PC (where Windows 10 is installed) along with a 250GB SATA SSD for ...
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Windows 10 and hardware upgrade: strange behaviour after safe usb unplugging, that leads to data corruption on all hard drives [closed]

I recently upgraded several components in my PC, including the motherboard (ASUS Prime x670-p), RAM, GPU (Nvidia 1070 to Nvidia 4090), and CPU (Intel i7-6700k to AMD Ryzen 9 7950x). My previous setup ...
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Chrome: recovering Chrome autofill data from a corrupt ex-Win10 PC

Can one run Chrome with a named profile from command line off a USB rescue media with W10, to rescue Chrome data from a corrupt SSD? Before you say that it's a ridiculous idea, please hear me out. I ...
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Windows won't boot after power cut. Windows installation USB won't boot either

A few months ago, a very brief power outage occurred while I was using Windows 10. It lasted less than a second and when I turned my computer on again, it booted into Ubuntu, which was installed on an ...
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Why can't I boot from my cloned drive?

I am trying to replace an HDD with a SSD on an old Samsung Series 5 Ultra. I have tried cloning the drive multiple ways: Tried with Macrium - drive wouldn't boot and got stuck in a loop restarting ...
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How much longer of a lifespan do TLC SSDs have compared to QLC SSDs?

I've come across several articles stating TLC SSDs have better reliability and longer lifespan than QLC SSDs. However, they don't specify how much more reliable they are. I'm aware the real-world ...
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Installation macOS High Sierra shows Prohibitory Symbol

The HDD from my daughter's Macbook white mid 2010 is very old and running terribly slow, so I bought a Samsung 870 EVO 500GB SSD to replace it. Then I downloaded a install Mac OS El Capitan app.zip ...
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SATA errors for SSD with new mainboard, works fine with old one

My $old system works perfectly fine. Then I upgraded the mainboard+CPU to $new and suddenly I can no longer boot from my SSD. The GRUB bootloader stops sometimes at "GRUB", "GRUB ...
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Which SATA revision does device support?

How to tell which SATA revision is supported by a device (either motherboard or SSD drive) within Linux or Windows or any other way? Samsung PM893/PM897 SSD specification explicitly says SATA 3.3 ...
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NVMe/SSD Driver for Razer Blade 15 Advanced 2021 (Razer CH570 motherboard)

I have the Razer Blade 15 Advanced 2021 (RZ09-0409), and I'm trying to reinstall Windows. When I boot into the installation media, I can't select my SSD as the target device for installation. This ...
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NVMe SSD is visible on Device Manager but not visible in Disk Management

I was using my windows pc all and well but suddenly windows stopped working. I have a usb bootable Ubuntu and with this I wanted to extract my files before formatting the SSD completely but for some ...
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Installing Alma linux on Laptop with Intel Optane SSD shows up error md126

I have purchased a laptop with Windows, I wanted to install Ala linux. I have downloaded the latest version of the distribution and have made a bootable USB. Now when I start the installation process ...
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SATA/SSD 2.5'' to USB laptop connection dont show up

I have several 2.5'' SATA/SSD disks that I want to read in a laptop. I bought a common SATA/SSD to USB 3.0 adapter but most don't show up and they are silent (no spinning) I strongly suspect the ...
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BOOTCAMP WINDOWS INSTALL STORAGE

I recently used bootcamp assistant to install windows on my MacBook Air 2015. I had no intention of keeping macos alongside windows so I cleared the mac partition from disk utility in recovery mode ...
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Linux - Old MacBook Air - SSD not found

I have a MacBook Air that only supports macOS Catalina. I tried 'upgrading' it by installing Linux Mint on it. That worked fine for a while, untill it crashed, and now it won't boot again. I tried a ...
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Surface Pro 7 plus corrupt SSD

I'm working as a Level 1 IT help desk in a High School. We exclusively use MS Surface devices for the students. I have a student device I'm struggling with. It's a Surface Pro 7 Plus which shows the ...
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why my computer do not showing hard drive in boot order

The computer does not start windows and it gives me a message: Your pc/device needs to be repaired. The bios recognizes both the hdd and the new ssd (on which the OS is installed) in the device ...
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Very slow random write on SSD

I have an SSD and since I bought it I feel that it slows down in several situations, when I download a game I can't do anything because my computer freezes because it is so slow, there are games that ...
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Why can't Windows 11 read properly the SSD which I connected to my laptop using a USB connector?

I wanted to wipe an SSD that was previously in a PC with Windows 11. I connected it via USB to my PC and Windows is telling me "A specified device does not exist". I checked it using "...
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Could I use a microcontroller to put a HDD or SSD into my RAM slots

Could I use a microcontroller to put a SATA storage device into a RAM slot, or would some BIOS configuration prevent this. I know that this is beyond useless, but it may be a fun project.
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Periodic data transfer between HDD and SDD

While sending a big file from HDD to SDD I realized that the transfer speed from HDD plateaued but receiving speed on SSD shows a periodic behaviour. Is there some hardware/SSD internal software ...
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Can switching to an SSD resolve this particular issue?

Recently, the Task Manager on my laptop has been indicating that the HDD is operating at 100% utilization multiple times a day. I believe this is causing my laptop to slow down, resulting in delayed ...
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Why would computer technician want my bitlocker key after GPU repair & SSD replacement? (Laptop)

My laptop has been in the local repair store now for three months - the GPU was resoldered and stencilled. During the repair I damaged the SSD at home and the laptop wouldn’t boot. They tried to ...
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Can RAID 1 fail (me)?

I read about RAID 25 years ago but never used it. Now I am considering mirroring a Dell work laptop's SSD using its BIOS/chipset RAID. Let's assume monthly backups are performed but I am looking to &...
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Can I use this SSD on this motherboard

Recently I bought a Western Digital SN570 1TB NVMe Solid State Drive. I currently have an ASUS P8B75-M motherboard which support my SATA SSD. However I am not sure if this SSD will go with my current ...
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Win11 - After upgrade SSD .. File Access Denied - You need to provide administrator permission... issue

I've been having some problems after upgrading my SSD drive from 512 GB to 2 TB. I cloned the C drive, and since then I've been asked for permission to move, delete, write files, etc., actually the ...
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All SSD file server cache on ram, is it safe?

I am running a Dell optiplex 790 , i5 2400, 8gb ram (now 16GB), on a 870 evo 250gb boot drive, 1&4tb 870 qvo ssds for storage, Linux Mint as base OS. I'm worried about ram failing although no ...
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Asus H97-Plust and M.2 970/980 Compatibility

I plan on upgrading the SSD in my PC and after a few days of research, can't figure out if they are compatible. My mainboard is Asus H97-Plus with m.2 (socket 3), M Key type 2242/2260/2280 up to 10 Gb/...
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Copying from an SSD external drive to local drive operates only in bursts and eventually stops

I have a new gaming-style PC running Windows 11 and a new Samsung T7 Portable SSD drive. When I plug the SSD drive into a USB 3.0 port on my new PC and attempt to copy about 150,000 image files of ...
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Very long time waiting during Windows boot-Stuck (and doing nothing) during circling dots

as the title suggests, the Windows is stuck in the "Windows Logo" with the circling dots screen. During this wait time (about 25minutes) the PC does nothing. The specs are the following ...
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Is it possible to enable BIOS disk password and OS suspend at the same time?

I am currently on Lenovo ThinkBook 14+ ARA. I found the BIOS offers disk lock method (Master/User Key). After setting the two keys, it is needed to enter one of them to unlock my disks when POST. ...
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Error formatting and creating partition on SSD in Ubuntu

After Giving this Error: Error formatting volume-Error wiping device: Failed to open the device '/dev/sdb1' (udisks-error-quark,0) How can I solve this problem and get the disk to format properly?
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IGP with MultiMonitor ON breaks bootloader?

I am having some very strange problem. My setup first: Lenovo PC with i7 Gen. 4 Intel HD Graphics 4600 with 2x Displayports 16gb RAM Monitor: HP Elitedisplay Monitor: Benq RL2755 OS: Win10 ...
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How to merge two drives into larger new one

I have a setup (UEFI) with two SSDs, which contain a Windows partition, a Linux partition, boot and swap partitions and a data partition. I want to move all of these to a single new SSD. How do I go ...
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Disabling SMART in Mac

I am trying to disable SMART on a Samsung SSD, to follow the advice in this question. I run the following command: sudo smartctl --smart=off /dev/disk4 smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [Darwin 21.4.0 ...
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My portable SSD was 8 TB, and now it's 1 GB

My portable SSD was 8 TB, but now it's only 1 GB. The SSD was used for the TV, like a flash drive. I checked Disk Management, but there are no unallocated spaces. It doesn't want to format. Please say ...
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HP T620 Flexible Thin Client loses all the data on the SSD after a power cycle

I bought a refurbished HP T620 Flexible Thin Client some time ago and today I had the idea to use it headless with a TV Tuner and Tvheadend, so I began with installing Ubuntu Server on it. Everything ...
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Interpret the output of smartctl for SSD and hard drive

I have dropped my external hard drive on the floor recently and wanted to know if the electronic parts and mechanical parts were damaged. I have no idea how to find this out from the output of ...
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How to use old Windows 10 C drive in new Windows 10 installation

I had Windows 10 running on a 1TB SDD with loads of apps installed, and that PC's power supply crapped out. I had another, faster, more memory PC with 400GB SSD running linux and not much valuable ...
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