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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How important is power loss prevention (PLP) in SSDs?
There was a nice SATA SSD on sale today, but I didn't get it because it came with no Power Loss Prevention (PLP) guarantee. The same vendor used to make a similar SATA SSD drive that did offer PLP, ...
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My SSD was working, but after 4 minutes it stopped being recognized. i dont know with the USB-to-SATA [duplicate]
story:ssd is worked,then after 3 minutes it not initialized
i use USB to SATA.CR108 UGREEN now i just bought orico 6228US3
but easeus say the ssd is fine
after i initialize to GPT but fail in easeus ...
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Why doesn’t Windows explorer recognize an M.2 SSD?
I plugged another SSD into my M.2_1 port on my desktop (My OS is installed on my M2_2 port), and file explorer doesn't show it, although device manager and my motherboard BIOS detect it just fine. It'...
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Why is my PC going into recovery after changing boot order?
I switched from a hard disk to an SSD and after cloning my C drive into the SSD I changed the boot order to my SSD.
But after booting the PC just goes into recovery mode and doesn't boot again until ...
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How to know an external drive is failing in macOS before it goes bad? Or how to otherwise prepare?
I had two drive failures compromise my video collection in one instance and my backup in the second.
In the first case, video data became silently corrupt on an external USB SSD, in the second, older ...
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BitLocker without TPM — automatic boot with key on hidden partition of same SSD
Constraint: I cannot use a TPM (the only Mini PCIe port is already used by a Wi‑Fi/Bluetooth module).
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The target system is a portable Pico‑ITX device (Jetway NP93, Intel Celeron ...
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LVM cached volume in writethrough mode flushes when uncached
I’m working with an LVM logical volume, which is cached by a faster LV. The setup is dm-cache, writethrough mode, smq policy.
Now I’m trying to uncache it and I’m seeing it’s flushing a lot of blocks.
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Temporary disk removal in a dual boot system
I have a dual-boot system using two separate SSDs. One is my primary system on an M2 drive, and my secondary system is on a SATA drive that is in a removable bay. Most of the time I only need to have ...
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Why is an internal SSD detected in the terminal but I cannot erase/reinstall macOS on it on a Mac mini Late 2012?
I have a Late 2012 Mac mini (i7, 16GB RAM, 500+ GB SSD). I’m trying to erase and reinstall macOS via Internet Recovery.
In Disk Utility, the internal disk shows only one line. Erasing fails with ...
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How to switch all private Linux file creation on an SSD to an encrypted container after logging in and typing the encrypted container password?
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In Linux Mint 21 I edit text files in a password protected zip file and was shocked to find that when I open the file for editing, a temporary file is created ./.cache/.fr-uGGkEM/...
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After upgrading PC parts: Windows 10 doesn't boot, USB boot media can't see Windows SSD, and I can't boot to USB after changing the SSD to AHCI mode
I upgraded my PC by swapping out the motherboard, CPU, and RAM, and installing an NVMe drive in addition to the existing SATA SSD containing my Windows installation. Specifically, the old parts:
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Is my new SSD bad or broken?
I have recently acquired a new SSD. Specifically ADATA SE880, USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C with 1TB of storage.
Plugging it in and setting up the ADATA ssd toolbox it displays that the new SSD is driver health:...
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How to move an EFI partition from a disk to another on Windows Server 2019?
The reason is that Windows Server 2019 was installed on the second disk, then realizing this mistake, Windows Server was deleted from the second disk, and then it was reinstalled on the first disk, ...
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SSD partition deletion, only appear on Grub, not appear on Installation Ubuntu or Win through USB boot
Let me ask you.
I installed Ubuntu on my computer and deleted Windows. Now I go back to Windows and when I go to the partition selection section, I see nothing, while my SSD still has 512GB.
If I boot ...
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SDD and HDD differ with regard to changing Date Modified of Folders
Maybe I'm wrong about this, but it seems that SSDs do not reset the Date Modified attribute of a folder if a change has occurred within that folder (file created, moved to, etc.). Only HDDs seem to ...
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