Storage Devices

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1. SSD TIER LIST 1 2 3 4 28

   By VEXICUS, August 9, 2019
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   • ThePCNerd129
   • March 15

2. What Drive Should I Get? A Guide to the Mechanical HD Market 1 2 3 4 6

   By Blade of Grass, October 27, 2014
   • 141 replies
   • 262.4k views
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   • Blue4130
   • October 17, 2023

3. Reducing Single Points of Failure (SPoF) in Redundant Storage 1 2 3

   By wpirobotbuilder, November 5, 2013   

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     • controller
   • 55 replies
   • 198k views
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   • r00tb33r
   • June 23, 2023

4. How To: Choosing Your Storage Devices and Configuration 1 2 3

   By wpirobotbuilder, September 6, 2013   

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   • 55 replies
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   • tdkid
   • June 10, 2023

5. Cache a sata SSD with 16GB optane (primocache)

   By ianm_ozzy, Tuesday at 05:32 AM   

   • primocache
   • gaming
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     • windows 11
   • 9 replies
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   • LIGISTX
   • 38 minutes ago

6. sas SAS Drives in a desktop? Help please.

   By No sleep Neftali, 12 hours ago   

   • hard drive
   • hdds
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   • 2 replies
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   • Kilrah
   • 10 hours ago

7. Legit Toshiba Drive?

   By Astrophel, yesterday at 04:04 AM
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   • 108 views
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   • Astrophel
   • 15 hours ago

8. Found old hard drive. how to plug?

   By superbuu, Wednesday at 02:53 PM   

   • hdd
   • 5 replies
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   • voyager_
   • 20 hours ago

9. Do i need to do anything before attaching my old Sata SSD and HDD to my new system?

   By EzioWar, yesterday at 02:22 PM   

   • ssd
   • hdd
   • 3 replies
   • 104 views
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   • Ryker Robb
   • 23 hours ago

10. LabelFlash drive software

    By da na, yesterday at 01:19 PM
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    • da na
    • Yesterday at 01:19 PM

11. Swapping SSDs into new system.

    By Vojtess, yesterday at 12:29 PM   

    • boot drive ssd
    • ssd
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    • 2 replies
    • 77 views
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    • Vojtess
    • Yesterday at 12:50 PM

12. NGFF, NVME, SATA, B+M, M. I couldn't be more confused.

    By HopefulPlastic, Monday at 04:02 AM
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    • NewMaxx
    • Yesterday at 02:05 AM

13. USB drive read-only issue

    By PartyWire, Wednesday at 05:20 PM
    • 3 replies
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    • OddOod
    • Wednesday at 06:56 PM

14. RAID 0 with Nvme or 2 Separate Drives?

    By ChrisLoudon, Wednesday at 04:18 PM
    • 4 replies
    • 114 views
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    • ChrisLoudon
    • Wednesday at 05:39 PM

15. Setting up RAID ZFS with plans to expand (Have 4x8tb, obtained 4x16tb, want both working together)

    By DaGeek247, Wednesday at 02:37 AM
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    • 185 views
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    • DaGeek247
    • Wednesday at 04:56 PM

16. Should i remove the black rubber band under ssd heatsink ?

    By EzioWar, Wednesday at 04:15 PM
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    • johnt
    • Wednesday at 04:38 PM

17. do i need to do anything like format or something with a new ssd before/during installing window 10?

    By EzioWar, Wednesday at 03:45 PM
    • 9 replies
    • 175 views
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    • Kilrah
    • Wednesday at 03:57 PM

18. what prevents ssd manufacturers deliberately locking your ssd after you exceeded rate TBW in order to earn more money?

    By aqarwaen29, April 10
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    • 309 views
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    • kokosnh
    • Tuesday at 07:32 AM

19. Reading several times has high life span reduction ?

    By Mark65428, Tuesday at 07:22 AM
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    • kokosnh
    • Tuesday at 07:24 AM

20. How to make Minecraft world backups save to flash drive?

    By Fat Cat11997, Tuesday at 07:22 AM
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    • Fat Cat11997
    • Tuesday at 07:22 AM

21. recovery partiton Recovery Partition

    By Sakuramaru, Tuesday at 12:00 AM   

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    • Sakuramaru
    • Tuesday at 12:04 AM

22. is the samsung 990 pro a good choice? 1 2

    By GanjajoggiBig, Monday at 08:28 AM
    • 27 replies
    • 311 views
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    • Eigenvektor
    • Monday at 05:08 PM

23. External SSD giving USB 2 speeds

    By PraveenMystic, Monday at 03:07 AM
    • 10 replies
    • 133 views
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    • jaslion
    • Monday at 07:11 AM

24. SSD died from day to day

    By origar10, Sunday at 09:55 PM
    • 2 replies
    • 135 views
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    • kokosnh
    • Monday at 07:05 AM

25. Cannot format storage device in disk partition (volume not showing up)

    By Guenther Basart, Sunday at 08:41 PM
    • 2 replies
    • 145 views
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    • Guenther Basart
    • Monday at 12:02 AM