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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?

I am getting a 60GB SSD and I choose this over the 120GB option as I am on a REALLY tight budget and 120GB is not to much more than 60GB to be honest. But will I be able to get windows on there and maybe some small 1-5gbs games?

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.

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!

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.

I have a Western digital sn850 1tb placed in my first m.2 slot on my MSI x570 meg unify board. My cpu is a ryzen 7 5800x and I have a 2080ti. There also is a Samsung gen 3 nvme placed in the second m.2 slot. I don't know what I am doing wrong. Surely this gen 4 nvme should just show up as gen normally. I have no idea if there is a problem with available PCIe lanes etc, really am a noobie. I see no option in bios where I can configure m.2 lanes etc. Please help. I do realise there is no real benefit for the better gen 4 speeds especially for someone who uses the pc for gaming like me, But I want the speeds I paid for!

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

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The problem I have is that my new M.2 SATA SSD starts programs and Windows slower than my old smaller capacity SSD. I noticed that my newer PC boot up slower and opens Word slower despite scoring better on everything. Even though the newer PC has windows 10 while the old core 2 duo has windows 11 (just for testing). The truth is that I no longer trust these benchmarks at least with SSDs.

Hi, I have a pretty interesting problem that I have no ideas how to solve I have one HDD and one SSD in my computer. The system is installed on the SSD I had to replace old HDD and just plugged it out. Then I plugged in a new one. But when I tried to boot the PC I encountered intel boot agent error "media check failure, check cables" What should I do?

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?

Hi everyone, I recently upgraded my game storage device from HDD to M.2 SSD. I tried cloning over at first, which did not work at all. So I ended up doing a completely fresh install of windows, drivers, programs, etc. The problem I am having now is that whenever I attempt to play games downloaded on the M.2 or HDD my GPU instantly goes to 100% usage and will continually heat up (to even 90C+) without turning fans on past 50% usage. I also hear some coil whine coming from the GPU when this happens as well. The GPU I have is a HP reference style GTX 1070. I personally don't have an issue with the GPU being at 100%, I would just like to maybe learn how I can set the fans to match the utilization? I have already tried everything I can think of, including re-downloading all drivers, reformatting the SSD and HDD and nothing seems to work. I am also a little skeptical because even when I reduce settings to the minimum or play with VSYNC ON the card still runs at 100% usage. Also, I know my PC never struggled with games like Apex Legends or Age of Empires before the SSD upgrade. At this point I am wondering if this is windows issue, storage issue, or GPU dying. Any tips will be greatly appreciated.

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.

Not sure if this is a correct place to ask this but, here we go. I currently have a fake server (gaming PC running Windows 10 Pro) that I mainly use to host private game servers for my friends and I. My main rig I have a PCI-e 4.0 to four 4x VNME M.2 SSD slots. Unfortunately I had missed the fact that this expansion card will no longer fit in the case when I set up my waterloop and vertical GPU mount. In order to keep this storage I was thinking It may be a perfectly viable option to throw the expansion card in my fake server and share it across the network in hopes it will run games perfectly fine with no impact to loading times, stability, ping, etc. Has anyone done this / tested this to confirm it works with no negative impact? I know I should not expect the full like 3000 MB/s speeds the drives are capable of, any SSD speed would be fine for gaming. My only theory is that it should work, but if anything was wrong with it, it will affect ping in-game due to bogged down network speeds. I don't want to pull the card out at the moment because literally all of my games are installed to it and I don't want to break any directories (even though some launchers allow me to update those) Some info on the connection(s): 1 Gigabit Ethernet connections. It will be a PCI-e 3.0 slot with two PCIe 4x NVME SSDs (Intel 665P 2TB) for a total of 4TBs of storage. Both PCs are hardwired directly to the router / modem (one on about 100ft Cat6e and the other on about a 6ft Cat5e).

To start, I know there have been some threads online addressing these issues but none of the fixes listed in any of them have helped at all. I recently got a 1TB WD Black SN750 to replace my A2000 as boot drive and have encountered two separate issues preventing me from doing so. Problem 1: Drive cannot be cloned. Neither Acronis nor Macrium were able to, with the issue being "bytes/sector" differences (4096 on SN750 and 512 otherwise). Reformatting the drive does not give the 512 option. Backing up image of original and restoring to new one wasn't possible due to same reason. Apparently this shouldnt be a problem (as its supposed to emulate 512 anyway) but I have not found any fix. Cloning the A2000 to a sata SSD (MX500) worked fine. Backup plan: fresh install windows and just copy the files over... Problem 2: installing windows (via USB drive) leads to infinite loop of windows setup. Start > BIOS > Boot > Windows setup +installation > automatic restart to finish > repeat. Removing USB during restart countdown gave the "please insert boot device" prompt. Manually booting from the new drive from bios made no difference. Reinstalling the old drive and checking the files in the SN750 shows that windows did install. All other drives removed except SN750 during attempted install. Bios has been reset and XMP disabled. SN750 has been tested in both nvme slots with no change, A2000 works fine in both. Windows install has been attempted with different download files. Have reformatted the drive and tried using both MBR and GPT with no difference. Disabling CSM caused SN750 to not show as a bootable device (but was still detected by bios as it could be found in a separate setting I can't remember) or at all if the USB was removed. This is all after Windows had apparently installed. I honestly don't know what could be happening here and I'm at my wit's end. Is it the drive's problem? Is it the mobos? Is windows crap? Or is there some obvious solution I'm missing? It looks like other people have had a similar issue with the second problem but as said before no suggestions have worked. Installing windows wasn't any issue at all the last time I tried at the start of this year, with all the same hardware. Otherwise the drive seems to work fine. Can copy to and access files on it no problem, and is detected in windows as normal. I just want to switch boot drives. A solution to either issue would be extremely appreciated. Specs: R5 5600X Gigabyte B550I Aorus Pro AX bios: F13g Kingston A2000 500GB Powercolour Red Devil RX 6800 XT G.Skill 16GB 4400 C19 (stock) Corsair SF750

I'm working on my first PC build, and the X470 Gaming Plus Max ticks all the boxes. Only problem is that I don't know if it supports ECC SSDs. I'm using the Team Group MP33 which does use ECC. I would rather keep ECC and find a different mobo than get a non-ECC SSD, though changing the SSD might be easier.

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

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've got an B550-xe MB and im trying to use the Hyper M.2 16xGen 4 Card that came with it. I placed it in the x16_1 PCIe Slot and i got only two SSD's showing up. any ideas? As the user's manual says i did the configurations in the BIOS>>Advanced>>Onboard Devices Configuration and set the x16_1 slot in PCIe RAID Mode