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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Data corruption with a Kingston SNV3S2000G SSD in an IcyBox IB-1817Ma-C31 connected via USB3; where's the cause?
I have a Kingston NV3 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD SNV3S2000G (2TB) in an IcyBox IB-1817Ma-C31, both bought this year (2025).
The intention was to use the external device as backup medium for my ThinkPad laptop ...
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Why am I having difficulty reformatting M.2 disk from a Dell Latitude?
Recently I was given a Dell Latitude 3500 with 8G of RAM and a M.2 SSD that ran Windows 10.
I ran Linux Antix in a live-session but was surprised to find that when I attempted an installation it was ...
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Why does USB and SSD write speed suddenly become very slow at 2MBPS?
MSI GS66 Stealth write speed to portable SSD and flash drives suddenly slowed significantly to around 2MBPS max. (the update window will have a high write speed for about 3 seconds then quickly adjust ...
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How would one go about expanding disk space on a MacBook Air M1 (2020)?
I have a MacBook Air M1 (2020). The internal SSD is soldered and therefore cannot be replaced. I am looking for external storage.
There are several YouTube videos. Some indicate that NVMe is good. ...
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Can I add an external NVMe SSD as internal one (e.g. to update the firmware)?
I have added two Samsung M.2 NVMe SSDs in a RAID1 configuration to my ThinkPad laptop .
Unfortunately the Samsung Magician tool now cannot find the SSDs for firmware update any more.
Also I have a ...
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Trying to better understand SSD wear-leveling of mostly full drives [closed]
The question 'but won't partitioning my SSD affect its longevity' has been asked and answered thousands of times. I have not seen an answer which could provide credible sources, but it is somewhat ...
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Why does the file transfer speed fluctuate wildly when copying files from an SD card to an SSD via a USB card reader?
I am copying 300+ GB of large files from an SD card to an internal SSD using a USB SD card reader, and the transfer speed fluctuates heavily.
For example, it starts around 80–90 MB/s, then suddenly ...
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What can I do to debug this issue I am having with an external USB SSD drive?
I installed Debian 13 on an external SSD USB disk: it works perfectly.The partitions are as follow:
~# lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% ...
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How to format an M2 SSD that had its Windows registry wiped by a registry cleaner?
This M2 seemingly had its Windows 11 registry wiped by the new CCleaner version. Just like the title says, this M2 cannot be accessed and cannot be seen through winre or a windows installation tool on ...
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Why is my Crucial P310 2230 M.2 NVMe SSD showing as 2TB in disk management when I bought a 1TB model?
I recently bought a brand new Crucial P310 2230 M.2 NVMe SSD in 1TB size. The box says 1TB and the stickers on the drive say 1TB. The box was sealed and the drive looks high quality and genuine. I've ...
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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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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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