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Captain_WD

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  1. Thank you guys for the great words. This serves once again as proof of how truly amazing this community is. It was an honor and a pleasure chatting and helping here.
  2. Thanks guys! I'm sure @Boogieman_WD will take a good care of you! I could create another account but I won't be associating it with this one in any way.
  3. OK guys, I'm moving on with other activities and I am retiring from the Captain_WD account. @Boogieman_WD will be taking over for me. Check out this topic for more info. 

     

    1. Starelementpoke

      Starelementpoke

      D: Farewell Captain, I salute you

  4. Dear all, It is with great regret that I must inform you I am moving away from this position in Western Digital and Captain_WD will no longer be representing the brand nor it will be associated with WD. It's been quite the ride for over two years and it was a great honor and pleasure to share and gain knowledge in the Linus Tech Tips community. You guys form an amazing community which has made my job fun, enjoyable and has enabled me to take pleasure in doing it each and every day that I have been here. I have also learned a lot of new things here from you guys so a huge Thank you for that. I will truly miss being a part of this community, help people and interacting with each and every one of you. My role will be taken by @Boogieman_WD who I'm sure will do an excellent job helping people and offering solutions to whoever needs them. He has quite the experience throughout other communities so I'm sure he will be an excellent consultant. Please, treat him well and refer all WD and Storage related questions and troubles to him. If you have any questions or comments for me or for my colleague, please feel free to share them here. Cheers! Captain_WD.
  5. That should mean 8 hours, 5 days a week... basically a regular office/home usage-type
  6. The numbers after the M.2 indicate the size of the drive (length and width). There are different sizes and some motherboards can't fit all of them. Captain_WD.
  7. Do share once you are done with the build so we can check it out and enjoy it. Make sure your case has enough space for adequate airflow so you can get proper cooling on your parts. Captain_WD.
  8. As I explained, M.2 is a form factor, not the connection type. A SSD can be M.2 but not NVMe and it can be NVMe without being M.2. NVMe is a protocol that PCIe-based SSDs use to communicate. You can have a M.2 PCIe SSD that is not NVMe (they work through AHCI). There are many M.2 SATA SSDs out there and are quite popular. Most M.2 slots support both PCIe and SATA connections, depending on the M.2 key. Captain_WD.
  9. Are you looking for a 2.5" or a M.2 form factor? Sharing the rest of the parts of that mini ITX build would be helpful. Captain_WD.
  10. You should be able to use a tool from the manufacturer's website or, as @deXxterlab97 suggested you could use a third-party application. Did you manage to get the S.M.A.R.T. data with the raw values? Could you post a screenshot of it? Captain_WD.
  11. Hey Did you have any luck with the diagnostic tests? Did you manage to get a screenshot of Disk Management? Captain_WD.
  12. I'm sorry to hear about the troubles you are going through. Try testing that drive on another system with the DOS tool and see if the drive is recognized. Let me know if you need help with your new WD Blue. Your current drive's S.M.A.R.T. status doesn't really seem that critical so you should be able to save some data on it but don't rely on it for important data that you can't afford to lose. Captain_WD.
  13. Apologies, I was off for a few days. If you are going to move your OS to a new drive the best option is the make a fresh install on the new drive (without the old one connected), then connect the old drive, move everything you want to the new one and then remove the old OS partition and system partitions from the old drive using Disk Management tools. Mind that this will create a new system registry and it will require you to reinstall all your applications and games. As I pointed out, cloning does involve some risks. Captain_WD.
  14. I'd first check the health of that HDD with tools from the manufacturer. 100% usage could be a sign that a drive has issues. Any current SSD should work for this. You could also check out WD Blue SSD. Let me know if you have questions about this SSD. Captain_WD.
  15. Please, delete the Serial Number of the drive from the screenshot as this information shouldn't be visible publicly. The S.M.A.R.T. status of the drive looks OK. You should be able to use the anti-static bag from the old drive. Try benchmarking the two drives and see if the new one is really performing slower. Captain_WD.
  16. Hi I would start by trying other USB cables and other USB ports on that system and try the drive on another system again with Windows 10 and see if the issues persists. I would suggest to back everything up from the drive on the Windows 7 system, reformat the drive under Windows 10 and then return everything to it. This should solve the issue. You can also check the heath of the drive with WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic and see if the drive passes both the quick and the extended tests. Captain_WD.
  17. Hi there What's the drive's brand and model? Generally, as the guys pointed out, you may be able to do that as there is a regular HDD inside the enclosure. Mind that some external drives feature hardware encryption which prevents the data on the drive to be read outside the enclosure and you may need to reformat it. Other drives feature soldered USB connectors on the drive itself so you can't really connect them to a SATA port. Usually, removing the drive from its enclosure voids the warranty on the drive and the enclosure so I'd check that too. Captain_WD.
  18. Hi there NVMe protocols have some advantages over AHCI such as: 65535 command queues compared to a single queue on AHCI 65535 commands per queue compared to 32 commands per queue on AHCI Reaches even higher speeds. However, I wouldn't say you will see a notable difference between using a AHCI and NVMe PCIe-based SSD for gaming or other similar workloads. On the other hand, if you are using a SATA SSD, upgrading to a PCIe-based one should boost the performance by a lot and you may see even faster loading times for your games and better general performance. Mind that a game can only load as fast. If you have a 5 second loading time, boosting your performance by 50% will reduce that loading time just by a second or two and you have to ask yourself if it's worth the investment. You should be able to find online a lot of examples and comments on this topic as well as feedback from people who have upgraded from SATA to PCIe SSDs. the guys here also provided you with some really good feedback. Captain_WD.
  19. Hi Some software applications allow you to migrate only your boot partition so you should be able to do that. On the other hand, cloning a HDD on a SSD involves a lot of risks such as the SSD being recognized as a HDD thus missing out on functions such as TRIM and being susceptible to defragmentation which can degrade the SSD's lifespan, as well as other driver issues and compatibility problems. I would also recommend doing a fresh install of the OS on the SSD as well as of all the games and applications and then simply move the rest of the data from the HDD to the SSD via a SATA to USB cable, dock station or a standard external enclosure. What is your current HDD and what SSD do you have in mind? Captain_WD.
  20. Hi there Could you share your full system specs? What storage drives are you using? Do you have a SSD in your system. Checking for fragmentation is a good thing for HDDs but you should avoid that on SSDs. Running drive optimization from the OS should do that. Also, make sure you check your storage's health. Doing a fresh install will remove the old OS and its registry so you will need to reinstall all your applications and games due to the new system registry. You should be able to reuse the same key on the same system since you are reinstalling the same OS on the same system. Captain_WD.
  21. Hi You should be able to find if and what M.2 devices does your laptop support in its spec sheet. It appears that it supports the 2260 dimensions as well as it supports PCIe-based SSDs. You will need to check with the manufacturer if you can use the NVMe protocol or if you are limited to the AHCI setting. @Jed M M.2 do have different sizes (2260 being one of them) which indicate the length and the width of the SSD. Also, M.2 SSDs' performance varies a lot depending on which bus they are using (SATA or PCIe) and which protocol they are using (AHCI or NVMe). What do you do on that laptop? Captain_WD.
  22. Could you post a screenshot of Disk Management with that drive both when connected as a USB drive and when connected as a SATA drive? Also, I would recommend running some diagnostic tests with a tool from the manufacturer to exclude possible issues with the drive. Captain_WD.
  23. As I pointed out, using either WD Blue, WD Black or WD Red would all work for basic storage in a RAID1 configuration. As for the RAID1 option, If one of the drives fails you should still be able to access your data, but it is recommended to replace the failed drive so the RAID can rebuild itself. If a drive fails you won't be able to get the other drive to a different port or a different computer to get your data. Simply put: you are stuck using that drive solely on that system and on that SATA port. It does, however, provide with instant copying of the data on the other drive and you won't have to use any software or wait for a backup to complete to have your data secure. In case you are doing something important and something happens to your drive, with a simple backup to another drive you will have all the information up to the point of the last backup. All changes and new data from that point to the point of failure will be lost. You can use a backup application to move the data to the other drive in the system and thus be able to swap PCs and ports, but mind that if you use a backup application to another drive in the same system this won't be a true backup as you are still prone to system failure, power outage, malware attacks and other factors that could damage your data regardless of your copies. I'd say you should simply stick with backing up your most important data to external drives. Captain_WD.
  24. As I pointed out in my previous post, M.2 is simply a form factor, meaning just the size of the drive. WD Blue SSD and WD Green SSD both have M.2 versions and they have the exact same performance as the 2.5" versions. If you take a M.2 SATA SSD and the same model but in 2.5" SATA format you will have the exact same performance with only the physical size of the SSD being different. You can check out the spec sheets of both WD Blue SSD and WD Green SSD and see that there are no differences between the M.2 and the 2.5" versions. You will see a performance difference if a M.2 uses the PCIe bus instead of the SATA bus, which not all M.2 do so that's one thing to look out for. Also, your motherboard's M.2 slot needs to support M.2 PCIe connection (either over AHCI or NVMe) otherwise the M.2 SSD will again work through the SATA bus and will work as a regular 2.5" SSD. Captain_WD.
  25. Just to add to the RAID question: RAID1 means that you have two exact copies of your data, bit by bit, on the same sectors across two drives. If one of them fails you should still be able to access your data, but it is recommended to replace the failed drive so the RAID can rebuild itself. If a drive fails you won't be able to get the other drive to a different port or a different computer to get your data. Simply put: you are stuck using that drive solely on that system and on that SATA port. It does, however, provide with instant copying of the data on the other drive and you won't have to use any software or wait for a backup to complete to have your data secure. In case you are doing something important and something happens to your drive, with a simple backup to another drive you will have all the information up to the point of the last backup. All changes and new data from that point to the point of failure will be lost. It's really up to you to decide if RAID1 works better for you than a backup application moving your files to another drive. Mind that if you use a backup application to another drive in the same system this won't be a true backup as you are still prone to system failure, power outage, malware attacks and other factors that could damage your data regardless of your copies. Captain_WD.
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