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Hi guys, My motherboard is Asus Prime B450M-A II. Is Apacer AS2280P4 1TB M.2 PCIe Gen 3, gonna be compatiable with my Mobo? Apparently it has 3D TLC NAND Flash. I'm going to work multimedia stuff in PS-AI, PR-AE, Blender-Unreal Engine and obviously lot more. Am I going to be fine?

Budget (including currency): 0€ Country: Germany Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): I am planning on a new build in 1 to 2 years and wanted to know, if I could move my current SSD(TEAMGROUP CARDEA ZERO Z440 2TB) to it, with the OS and all other data on it, like games. If that should be possible, how would you guys recommend me to go about it?(what software to use etc.) Thanks! chaos

I'm looking for an external SSD to connect to my iPhone that I can directly record 4K video to. I know Sabrent makes an external SSD enclosure with a USB output where you can install your own M.2 SSD, but I've also looked at USB-C flash drives and external USB-C SSDs. Any recommendations?

hey peeps hey im doing an wanna IT curses rn and one of the questions is that i have to find a way to indentify a ssd and hdd i know how to do that much but i have to use a program to test them which one would you guys recommend?

So currently i have a 500gb wd blue sn 570, on the slot above the pcie x16 slot in my motherboard (https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B560M-DS3H-PLUS-rev-10#kf). im using a i5-11400. i am looking for a new ssd, also i it seems if i get a gen 4 drive i would have to move my current drive? i need about 1 terabyte more space and my region is australia

Today when I started my laptop it just wouldn't start, stuck on the dell logo. I tried restarting it multiple times but to no avail, the thing just wouldn't boot. When I unplugged the charger and tried starting it, it ran the system tests which start by themselves after detecting that the computer has been restarted multiple times, this is where I received this error message (attached photo). After some googling I found that this particular issue is related to the ssd. I have 2 nvme ssds installed, the accused came preinstalled and I installed the other one myself just for some more storage. I think the problem is with the preinstalled one because I am having trouble booting into windows. If I have it plugged into the wall, it just gets stuck on the dell logo and if I turn it off, unplug, start and wait for several minutes, the computer finally boots into windows. I am writing this on the same machine. I have ordered a replacement, a crucial p3 (same as the other one) but I want to know if I really need that and if this is maybe some software thing? This laptop is a gaming machine (I do game pretty heavily on this) which I also use for college work and this is only 2 years old (bought in 2021, dell g5 5505). Please help me with this issue, if you need anymore info please feel free to ask and please help me get to the bottom of this. Thank you very much for reading.

What's the maximum supported SSD capacity for Lenovo Legion 5 Pro 16ACH6H? I already have a 1TB SSD in the right slot but can I install a 2TB SSD in the left slot for a total of 3TB storage? Lenovo's PSREF site says this: But many people on Reddit and YouTube videos say it can support 2TB SSD just fine. I am very confused if a 2TB SSD can run on my Machine.

Hi Guys, I built my first computer in deck late in march and has been really good since then. But this week I realized something, when copying a file from a secundary ssd to the primary OS ssd, it gets really slow, the usage spikes to 100% and PC becomes really slow. It also happens if I'm extracting a large file in the primary SSD. But if I'm copying from the primary to a secondary SSD, that doesnt happen. All good and fast. I don't know if the primrary SSD is faulty or if this is normal? Or did I do something wrong? My motherboard is a z690 from gigabyte and it has 3 M2 slots for SSDs, which I'm using. And I've Crucial P3 Plus SSDs. The Primary SSD is in the slot that has direct access to the CPU lines. Ty for your help. Here's a screenshot of the situation:

I want to know, Can I set up RAID on SSD and RAID on HDD separately in a single system? Yes, I don't want RAID on SSD and HDD together cause it affects the speed of the drives. I want both speed and reliability on drives. I use my RIG for gaming and other productivity purposes Like Editing Video on Premier Pro, Using AutoCAD for Designing 3D models, Illustrator and Photoshop for Photo editing, Etc. The motherboard that I am using is Z790 Proart wifi. 3 out of 4 M.2 slot has been used for keeping the 8 SATA ports active. 6 SATA port is used for HDDs(Barracuda Pro 10TB) 2 SATA port is(will be) used for SSDs(Empty{Don't know which SATA SSD is reliable in the market at the time of writing}) The SATA SSD will be used as Cache Drive. HDDs are for Bulk storage until I get a NAS in my hand. So, The objectives are to run the M.2s at UNRAID for Maximum performance, SATA SSDs as Cache, HDDs for bulk storage for completed projects. I also need to know which SATA SSD is reliable. Thank you so much for your attention and participation.

Hi, is it possible to set a Samsung 980 Pro 1TB NVMe 3.0x4 @ 3.0x4 with Sata m.2 SSD "Phison E12 512 b16 BB1NVMe 3.0x4 @ 3.0x4" both drives work, but only while the other one is not connected, problem is on the Sata m.2 SSD is Windows with some extra stuff, im asking for a friend bcs he doesnt want to install fresh windows and loose the "old drive" (Sata m.2 SSD). But we cant get the Samsung 980 Pro 1TB NVMe to show up once the Sata m.2 SSD is connected, i thought its possible to leave one slot as sata and use the others as PCIe NVMe. Drives only show up in BIOS under NVMe devices, again only one drive while the other is disconnected. Both dont show up at once . Specs: Gigabyte Z590 Vision G (in total 4x m.2 slots) Bios: F7e (latest) Drives: Samsung 980 1TB NVMe m.2 SSD (PCIe) Phison E12 512 b16 BB1NVMe (Sata) sorry if this is not the cleanest english, im german and its 11:20pm

Summary Pure Storage, a supplier of all-flash storage devices, expects capacity of its proprietary direct flash module (DFM) solid-state drives to increase by six times in a few years, leading to 300TB capacities. The company expects advancements of 3D NAND areal density driven by increased number of layers and other factors to enable such a dramatic capacity increase. Pure CTO Alex McMullan showed a chart to Blocks & Files that reveals Pure’s plans and Pure Storage claims that it'll have these mammoth SSDs available by 2026. Quotes My thoughts While this technology is used for enterprise solutions, consumers would eventually see its benefits at some point. As 3D NAND flash manufacturers will ultimately switch from the current 200-layer chips to the 400 or 500-layer chips, and this will drive storage density up. Presently, consumer SSDs offer up to 15TB solutions, while HDDs offer up to 22TB. Meaning, if these projections are correct, extra high capacities will at some point drive down prices of SSD per TB, while at the same time increasing the average capacity of an SSD. While an assumption, if SSD prices come down over the course of 5 years, this should also drive down HDD prices as well. Something to keep in mind, as Blocks & Files points out, is that 5 years brings us all the way to 2028, 2 years after McMullan’s purported 300TB DFMs by 2026 goal. Translation, 3D NAND layer increases will not get Pure Storage to 300TB by 2026 on their own; Pure Storage can't rely solely on increased number of active layers, but will need to improve upon other things too. Nonetheless, while Pure Storage's plans seem enthusiastic, it is still very exciting nonetheless; despite this being a primarily enterprise focused endeavor. I believe the benefits enterprise receives, eventually make their way to consumers at some point or another. Sources https://www.tweaktown.com/news/90590/300tb-ssds-could-arrive-in-2026-but-with-big-catch/index.html https://www.techpowerup.com/305422/300-tb-ssds-could-arrive-as-soon-as-2026-claims-pure-storage https://www.techradar.com/news/300tb-ssd-are-coming-soon-but-they-will-be-shockingly-expensive https://blocksandfiles.com/2023/03/01/300tb-flash-drives-coming-from-pure-storage/ https://www.tomshardware.com/news/pure-storage-300-tb-flash-drives-in-2026

I have a Gigabyte Z270 Gaming 3 motherboard my current storage consists of 2 500gb 2.5 HDDs and a 128 Toshiba M.2 ssd. I wanted to get rid of all of them for a single 1TB Samsung 970 Evo NVME But I can’t seem to figure out if my board is compatible and if it would work.

So I've been thinking about buying a pretty high end PC, and wanted to future proof it as best as I can, but after looking at Motherboards, I've realized that there aren't any that can support a PCIe 5 SSD and GPU at their full speeds. One lane (usually the GPU) will get cut to PCIe 5 x8, and I've been wondering, is this because current CPUs/Chipsets can't handle the bandwidth, or do board manufacturers not see a reason to start producing boards that powerful. Or is there another reason I'm not thinking of?

After reading few tech blogs I've come to understand that MX500 is slightly better than BX500 but in any of those site's the difference of expected life or erase cycle of these drive was not mentioned it was just stated that MX500 has more life expectancy than BX500, but how much more?, does the price difference of these two drives justifies the expected life difference of these drives?

Sup Linus Lovers I'm wondering something and I thought the people here would probably know enough about it: I'm looking for some "basic" but best "bang-for-buck" SATA-SSDs that don't need to be like a top-tier primary NVMe-SSD, cause this isn't for a main system. The way it will be connected is not even completely SATA, but a SATA to USB 3.0 adapter, or at least into a USB 3.0 port. And as far as I could find, that barely saturates the SATA-interface anyway. So it doesn't need the speed for huge file-transfers or very demanding applications, but it still needs to be at that level where it doesn't feel like "I might as well use an HDD". - What should I be looking at if I want an SSD that is "snappy" enough to run a light OS, lighter programs/games, and perhaps as a simple server, but is also very reliable and durable? A few different questions and points pop up:
 How many IOPS should I be looking at with USB 3.0? - A calculator showed me just over 7600 IOPS for 500 MB/s. - If that's the case, I suppose any SSD would do in terms of IOPS. But tell me whether that's accurate or not. Although I know it's not that black and white, what brands should I be looking at?
 - Because not that long ago we might all be saying "Samsung", but those seem to have issues now. Like I was looking at some of their QLC drives, which would've been great if they were more reliable and priced better. - So, what? Crucial? Seagate? WD? Kingston? Sandisk? Patriot Memory?... Which brings me to another point: Should I be looking at (newer) QLC SSDs, or should I better just stick to at least TLC SSDs for now? - Perhaps it doesn't really matter and it's actually great for something like this? - I guess I should always make sure that, for operational use, there should be decent DRAM. But without it seems to be more rare nowadays. Also: I know that larger SSDs, first of all are often the better "bang for buck" simply because they're cheaper per Gigabyte compared to their smaller versions, but can also be faster because of... overhead or whatever. - Then again, I probably don't need that extra supposed speed the larger ones might potentially offer. Plus, I intend to save the money with a literal lower price (as long as it's reasonable) compared to a more expensive larger version (ignoring that stepladder-effect), because I really won't need to hit that Terabyte norm, perhaps not even half, but I probably shouldn't go lower than 256GB. In general, the thing is that, while it should be cheap, it shouldn't just be any junk that could easily fail on me and become useless. More in that it's "cheap because it's not the fastest", which isn't a problem in this use case. Any suggestions for technical details or even specific products that fit this description are welcome. - I'd appreciate it.

Just built my new computer, moved from a FX6300 to a 7950x (Big upgrade), and accidently got a SATA 3 SSD. Was wandering if it was worth upgrading it and just using the parts as a possible extra storage? I am doing some video editing and gaming on this machine so would I truly notice a difference or would it come down to if I'm doing 4k video or pushing hard-core rendering in After FX

Hello I'm very new to the PC owning side of things despite having a few Laptops back in the day. 3 months ago I decided to upgrade the PC my brother gifted me as a birthday present. I decided to buy a WD Blue SATA SSD the 1TB version since my bro told me it's the best bang 4 buck SSD out there and I encountered an issue about a month ago which I only had the time to troubleshoot 3 days ago. BTW for reference I'm running a budget build with: Windows 10 AMD Ryzen 5 3k'something' series MSI GTX 1660 Super 16GB RAM 500GB Crucial M.2 NVME SSD 1TB WD Blue SSD(the drive I'm having issues with) and a 600W CoolerMaster Power supply Long story short I'm having problems with the write speed dipping to around 0 to 750 kbps whenever I try copying large files from my Boot drive M.2 to the WD Blue drive. I was wondering if this was normal so I've tried a number of troubleshooting tips like Checking: If the BIOS is updated If in the BIOS ACHI, or whatever that was is On instead of RAID If I'm in Power saving mode If there's a sleep timer for my ssd in advance power settings If the drive is TRIMMED If it will fix my problem with changing SATA ports And the most recent one I've tried was changing SATA cables since I got a new SATA III cable Sadly the problem I'm having is still recurring, I'm trying to transfer my Cyberpunk 2077 which is around 64GB from my M.2 to my WD blue and whenever I reach around 85 or 87% from 8 to 29 mbps it will immediately drop to an average of 350 kbps in write speed. I don't know if the SSD is the problem or not but I'm completely stumped as to what I should do. Please help... Edit: btw I made 2 partitions on the drive, one partitions doesn't have anything on it and the one I'm transferring files to has 87% Free space on it, around 300+ GB in free space Edit 2: So... I decided to check the seller reviews for my SSD since I bought it Online, apparently the drive sizes on some of the products they sell especially the 1TB versions are FAKE, no wonder my write speed dips to 450 kbps from 350-120mbps. Lesson learned, don't buy from an online store unless they have sufficient reviews at Approved by the platform.

Hello I am having a very particular problem regarding a secondary sata ssd. I am using a m.2 ssd as a boot drive and have a sata ssd for general storage (mainly steam games and a few files). Whenever I download large files off of steam (>10gb) the download will stop abruptly at about 50% every time. Whenever I download these same steam games to my m.2 it downloads perfectly. However, anything under about 10gb works without a hitch on the sata ssd. I have updated all drivers and eliminated almost every other problem I have thought of. This problems also persist on other platforms such as the Valorant launcher. I am on windows 11 btw. If there is any wisdom that can be shared regarding this issue I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks! P.S.- I have an average understanding of computers and I apologize if I didn't include any other important pertinent information.

Alright! So here i'll be laying out the plan for my new NAS machine. Right now i have the following setup: - Supermicro SuperChassis 846BE16-R920B - redundant 920W SQ PSUs - Supermicro X11SSL-F - Intel Xeon E3 1230V5 - 64GB DDR4 ECC - LSI 9201-16I SAS/SATA controller - LR-Link 10G SFP+ NIC - about 240TB in HDD capacity Which is awesome for what it is, and because of some Noctua fans it's also very quiet. That is, untill the HDDs start spinning up. This rack sits right next to my Desk, and the HDD's, while very spacious, can get intensely audible when under heavy I/O. This, is ofcourse completely unacceptable. So here is what i aim to do: Get rid of the old setup completely, and start again from scratch. The complete plan is not set in stone just yet, but here is a draft: - 2U, (supermicro?) 25 bay 2,5" chassis - 25x 2TB SATA SSDs - atleast 128GB RAM, and enough CPU horsepower to have this not be the bottleneck - as silent as possible, maybe watercooled like my other server? - dual 10G connectivity is a big plus. As stated though, this is a very rough draft, and it all starts with the case. I'll be researching what case or secondhand server i can get that would fit the bill for now. But as always: Expect updates soon!

I have a 60 gb ssd as boot drive and now it's on red. I just ordered a 256 gb to hopefully replace it can anyone help me how to clone the ssd? I heard of macrium reflect is good can anyone explain how to use it please? Thankssss

So, I have a lot of drives, some might say too many. I have 2x500 HDD Seagate Baracuda 7200rpm (from old PCs, both on are around 8 years old), 120gb LITE-ON SSD (from old PC, no idea how old, was in a second hand server) and 120gb Kingston SSD I bought 5 years ago AND a new 1TB M.2 SSD ADATA. Some days ago, I had to change PSUs and from then 1 of the HDDs and the LITE-ON SSD weren't getting recongnised by the system (even in BIOS). I didn't care much because there isn't really much data on them, the SSD was near-empty and the hard disk had only films on it. Today I wanted to fix them so I can watch one of the films I had already downloaded on the hard and while I was trying to see what the problem was (simply testing every cable, both power cables and the different SATA cables (4) with my Kingston ssd) and the non-working SSD burnt and the *working* hdd stopped getting detected in the BIOS, after the first time I changed it's cables. (In case anyone asks why I changed it's cables, I did it because both hard disks are identical and I had no idea which one was working and which was not). I have literally no idea whatsoever why the working HDD just stopped getting recognised eventho it was working like 2 minutes ago. + I have tried resetting BIOS to default, didn't change anything. Conclusion for now, every cable works, Kingston SSD works, LITE-ON SSD burnt, both HDD are not getting detected.

https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-M-2-X16-V2-Threadripper/dp/B07NQBQB6Z/ref=sr_1_6?crid=1A67HGSLOBF79&keywords=m.2+ssd+expansion+card&qid=1642192830&sprefix=m.2+ssd+expansion+card%2Caps%2C173&sr=8-6 ASUS Hyper M.2 X16 PCIe 3.0 X4 Expansion Card V2 Supports 4 NVMe M.2 (2242/2260/2280/22110) Upto 128 Gbps for Intel VROC and AMD Ryzen Threadripper NVMe Raid my motherboard msi pc mate z170a.

Hi all, I run a video production company and we have two PC that we offload large 4k ProRes files onto, sometimes up to 1TB worth in about ≈100GB files all in one go. We're transfering off a Samsung T5 through USB for context. During our transfers we can see our SLC cache filling up and the transfer speeds dropping dramatically. In the attached image I've emulated the issue by transferring between two M.2 SSDs where it drops from 2GB/s to 500MB/s, but when copying from T5 to our larger SATA SSDs we can drop from 500 to 100MB/s, which is not sustainable. Is there anything we can do to improve our situation and get some more sustainable high transfer speeds? I don't mind investing into certain storage media that won't slow down/won't slow down as much Thank you!

I have an SSD and it worked fine for a year or so. But now I can't really access any large folders, when I try it either crashes my Windows-Explorer(it says not responding and I restart it per task-manager) or it takes ages to load the folder. I've tried to format the ssd but it didn't help. Also one time when I booted it said it's repairing the drive or something and it took like 4 hours to complete. I thought that could be because I laid it on the magnets my laptop has but I'm quite sure that magnets don't affect SSDs. Anyways I would appreciate any help

Screenshots Attached. Model: TEAM T253X6002T Sata connector About every 10-20 seconds while downloading the SSD will switch from relatively normal operation to pooping the bed with 2 second response times and less than 10mb/s read/write. This also bottlenecks steam's download when it happens. The terribleness lasts about 10-20 seconds before reverting back to normal again. I'm fairly confident it's not software since as far as I can tell steam is the only program hitting the disk (it's not my C: drive). And when I pause the download usage goes to 0% and the drive idles. Anyway I'm stumped. Any ideas? Is it just broken?