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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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Permanently damage a SSD without physically destroying it [closed]

I have a SSD with my sensitive data. I want to permanently damage it but without visible physically destroying it. Is there any way to open or make a short circuit on its chips ... or something else ?
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M.2 install, strange motherboard screw

I have a ASRock x370 killer SLI/AC which has two M.2 slots. I installed the first NVMe SSD no problem with the provided hardware, but the second slot had this weird hex shaped standoff that I am ...
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Efficiently backing up a Windows 11 boot partition that will change size

To avoid an XY problem, please allow me to directly state the goal: To be able to easily back up a Windows 11 NTFS system partition and have that partition and those backups take up as little space as ...
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Best memory / storage solution for high read / write throughput application(s)?

I have an application that uses a Raspberry Pi Model 4B (4GB RAM) running Raspberry Pi OS. Initially I was flashing the OS image to an SD card (and using that for storage as well), but I wanted faster ...
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UEFI Boot order not changing(windows 11 on Hp 15-dw3003ni Laptop

I am trying to install windows 11 on SSD m2 NVMe using USB to my i5-1135G7, Under UEFI BOOT ORDER I can toggle but only OS Boot Manager can be selected. I tested the USB is working on other hp laptop. ...
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BIOS no longer detects the system on the second drive

I have two SSD drives in my laptop. On one I have a dual boot of Windows with Linux, on the other Linux alone.This standalone Linux worked without a problem, but I didn't use it for a while, and when ...
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How do I make 10TB of data available over the internet at a low cost and reasonable performance? [closed]

I would like to learn about cheap ways I could make about 10 TB of data available to my users. As of now, I have about 1TB of data stored in my external SSD. I have attached this SSD to my wifi router ...
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Cloned HDD to SSD "no media present"

I recently used a StarTech USB 3.0/eSATA 1:1 SATA Duplicator Dock with UASP Part# SDOCK2U33RE to clone a mirrored pair of 500GB 2.5in Seagate HDD's to 500GB Samsung SSD 870 EVO's and it worked without ...
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Are there SMART problems with this used SSD?

I've just bought a used SanDisk 480GB SATA SSD and I'm wondering whether any of the numbers displayed in SMART are bad please? In Active@ KillDisk Ultimate it shows "SMART warnings" on the ...
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Unexpected Store Exception frequently occuring

I am running Windows 10 on Dell Vostro with upgraded 12 gb ram ,256gb ssd and 1 TB original Hard disk. My OS is installed in SSD. Recently I have been encountering unexpected storage exception ...
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Clean Install on SSD while the HDD is still plug in

I want to do a clean install on my SSD. Currently, I have Windows 11 both on my SSD and HDD. But, I boot from the SSD now. I read that you must unplug your hard drive first before doing a clean ...
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Windows not booting after cleaning old drive

I recently added a new ssd to my laptop and cloned my old drive to the new one using macrium reflect. Then I set the new drive to boot first in bios settings. After that I clean the old drive using ...
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Changed generic NVMe to USB drive from MBR to GPT and now it shows as 0 capacity. What can I do to fix this?

Is this fixable, if so, how can I fix it? I got a generic-looking USB today, found out it was NVMe to USB, and was a bit excited because they are a bit faster. I checked it out and it worked. It was ...
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In what ways, if any, does the separation between SSDs affect a DAW? [closed]

This question brings out multiple opinions on the importance of having separate SSDs for a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) and the operating system it runs on or the swap file. It is a very old ...
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First ESXi server build using RAID

I am new to building an ESXi server and RAID in general and needed some assistance. I have an HP Proliant DL360 server that needs ESXi installed with RAID configuration for redundancy. The server has ...
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How can I troubleshoot my Windows SSD that suddenly won't boot anymore?

I have a setup with two drives, a SSD and a HDD, both with Windows 10 installed. I always boot from SSD but today I left my PC on as usual and when I came back I noticed it was displaying my old HDD ...
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Why doesn't iostat show any I/Os for 2 mins?

I'm logging iostat every second (and writing to /tmp to avoid interference with any Disk) with the following command: iostat -ymtxz -p sda,sdb,sdc,sdd,sde 1 270000 During a time window when the write ...
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Why was SSD storage reduced after installing Windows 11 from USB flash drive?

Recently, I installed Windows 11 with USB flash drive of 64GB and did some partitioning of my 500GB SSD but now when all is done my storage of SSD is showing only 115GB. Don't know how this happened, ...
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I would like to add swap space on my system running TrueNAS [closed]

First my hardware: Gigabyte H55M-D2H I5-650 2X4GB DDR3 GTX1030 128GB SSD 8TB HDD, RAIDZ1 (RAID5) usable 5.5TB I would like to somehow increase to 16GB or 32GB RAM, however my motherboard only ...
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Windows Won’t Boot from M.2 SSD After Installing Ubuntu on a Separate SSD

I’ve been successfully booting Windows from my M.2 SSD (WD_BLACK SN770 2TB) for the past year without any issues. However, after installing Ubuntu Server on a separate SSD (WD WDS250G2B0A), I can no ...
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What killed my USB SSD Drive? [closed]

I got a new USB 2T Samsung SSD drive back at Thanksgiving to replace another drive that was starting to go bad. I then copied as much as I could from the drive. About 6 months later, I needed some ...
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Transfer software/settings from a dead/non-functioning laptop to new device?

A laptop containing some keyfob software at my work died. They were quoted $1,200 to send a technician to install it on a new machine. It has an SK Hynix M.2 2230 Nvme PCIe SSD (HFM512GDGTNI-82A0A). ...
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Why am I getting extremely slow read/write speed on an external SSD?

I've been using a Crucial X10 Pro external SSD (4tb) for a little while now, and despite it being advertised as having read and write speed of around 2000 MB/s, I cannot get it to go faster than a ...
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How to check if drive is bottleneck to video playing performance

My computer was working fine till recently, when I swapped my 256Gb SSD OS drive (win10) to a cheap 1 Tb SSD drive (both laptop M2 PCIe connector). I used DiskGenius copy system function to copy the ...
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Do I need a heat spreader for the Samsung 990 Pro in a Lenovo Thinkpad P16 Gen2?

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad P16 Gen2 that has 1TB SSD installed. However I want to upgrade it to two times 2TB using two Samsung 990 Pro SSD. As the space in a laptop is quite small, I did not order a ...
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Does ZFS support SSD deduplication tables within the same pool only?

At least TrueNAS supports assigning SSDs for metadata and especially in case deduplication is used for ZFS: High quality mirrored SSDs configured as a special vdev for the DDT (and usually all ...
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How to use Secure Erase with "hdparm"?

I am lately trying to learn the secure erase feature. My goal is to use secure erase in windows. I searched for tools and found out that hdparm is a perfect solution. I tried to use hdparm but in the ...
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Why does disk management see an external USB SSD, but also says it is offline?

I have an Orico M.2 SSD enclosure (M2PV-C3-BK-EP-CA) using the Realtek RTL9210B controller. I have put a Samsung 990 Pro 4TB SSD inside it (NVMe). Both are brand new. I am running Windows 10. The ...
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What makes one USB 3.0 flash drive faster than the other?

I have two USB storage devices: SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD SDSSDE60-500G: According to spec it supports USB 3.1. SanDisk Ultra Flair USB 3.0 Flash Drive SDCZ73: According to spec it supports USB 3....
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SDD drive unknown dropped from 500GB to 2GB capacity

Failed migration of OS from HDD to SSD has corrupted my SSD, I can't no longer allocated and ite showing only 2GB, can't find partition recovery or data recovery file, SSD has also tried being ...
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Win7 legacy software MSR migration to GPT [closed]

Ryzen 7 on asus roc strix 550-F with 2 x 4gb SSD gpt 7400mb m2 drives boots Win10. Legacy system no post. All software on MBR 2gb hdd. How do I migrate without reinstalling 20 year collection of ...
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Am I able to put an old SSD on a new PC? Both running Windows 10 [closed]

I recently bought a new second-hand (stock) PC. It has a 256 GB SSD. I want to import my data from my old PC to my new PC. My old system has 1 SSD and 2 HDDs. (both of the systems are Windows 10). I ...
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Kernel Panic on boot of CentOS 7 working system on installing new NVME SSD

I have an existing CentOS 7 (7.6.1810) system running on AMD. It works well, currently running with the core O/S on a SATA SSD. I decided to attempt to add more storage by installing a new Samaung ...
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Preloading an NVME SSD for laptop with damaged keyboard

I have an older ASUS QU524 laptop running Windows 10 as a Jellyfin movie server across my network. The keyboard is damaged, and external keyboards do not engage until the BIOS/Setup prompt has passed. ...
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Is there any way to check the originality of Windows OS?

I just got an SSD installed. The tech that do my laptop also install a new Windows OS on the SSD. But, I'm wondering the originality of the Windows OS that the "tech" installed, is there any ...
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I/0 error dev sda(root partition)

I've been trying to install windows on my brand new Western Digital ssd, no matter how i install, windows barely lasts 3 days before crashing and prompting a reinstall. This has happened over 8 times ...
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Missing M.2 screw that I can't identify for MSI MPG B550 Gaming Plus"

I just received a second M.2 SSD that I'm trying to install, but the screw wasn't included in the box and isn't in my motherboard's box. It doesn't help that it looks like an uncommon screw type ...
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What does it mean when an SSD works slow?

I have a SSD Sata 512GB. 2 days ago it starts to work very slow. When I check SSD parameters with Crystal Disk info and everything is okay. I've changed the SATA cable, and also I've changed SATA ...
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Slower than expected read speed on Samsung SSD 850 and 870

I have a Samsung SSD 850 (/dev/sda) and a Samsung SSD 870 (/dev/sdb) which are exhibiting slower-than-expected read speeds: > sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing buffered disk reads: 1334 MB ...
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What is DRAM cache on SSDs actually used for?

I've found a very interesting article that provides an in-depth explanation about how do SSDs work: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/inside-the-ssd-revolution-how-solid-state-...
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Scan on SSD Hard drive says ok but

Pc repair tech couldn't install Windows 10 on my Windows 7 computer, he said it was because there were too many writes on my SSD which is only around 5-6 years old. I came home and tested it, and it ...
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Why is my SD card showing less capacity than advertised?

I bought a 64GB Samsung EVOPlus SD card from a vendor on Ebay the other day. !ddg 64 gb to gib A screenshot of the website duckduckgo.com showing the conversion of 64 gigabytes to gibibytes, yielding ...
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Diagnostic details: - The last unmovable file appears to be: \$Mft::$DATA [duplicate]

I tried to shrink my c drive but i noticed that there's a point i tried to fix it but during the shrink phase i got this defrag Diagnostic details: The last unmovable file appears to be: $Mft::$DATA ...
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Computer with SSD slow after not being used for a period

I have this painful issue where I'm gone for holiday (1-2 weeks) and even for a weekend (barely 2 days) my PC gets really slow and I'm suspecting SSD. Everything seems so slow despite boot being fast ...
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100% disk usage with no read/write, chkdsk /r freezing

specs OS Windows 10 mobo asus prime b650-plus cpu Ryzen 5 7600X ram 2*16 GB DDR5 video RX 6650 XT problem drive M.2 kingston SNV2S2000G Almost at my wits end but I figure it's better to ask ...
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Random Blue Screens and Missing Boot Manager - SSD Health is Fine

I've been experiencing random blue screen errors with different stop codes each time. After these crashes, when I enter the BIOS, my drive with the Windows Boot Manager is missing. However, I've ...
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Old ish motherboard not booting from nvme

I recently bought an nvme drive and attached it to my asus P8H77-I motherboard via a PCIe-NVME (or PCIe-M.2, not sure what the proper name is) adapter. I did this in an attempt to replace the HDD that ...
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How to prevent SSD getting hot

I have a windows 11 laptop with m.2 SSD. And my SSD gets hot. Approximately 53C degrees on idle. This heat makes it uncomfortable to have the laptop on my lap. Is there a way to make it run cooler?
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Understanding the Relationship between Device IOPS and Throughput

I'm trying to understand the relationship between device IOPS and throughput. I used AmorphousDiskMark to gather some information, and I have one question: My SSD disk is based on 4KB per block. So, I ...
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How do I rescue a windows 10 system from a failing SSD

Note Before: This is very similar to "Duplicating a system partition from a SSD with bad sectors" however my boot sector is failing and I don't have a valid windows 10 key. System: Dell ...
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