Recent content by Bob57

Just do a secure erase. It will become unrecoverable and you can then try to sell it if you want.

From an Operating System standpoint, the two SSDs will use different partitions. There is no way to span a single file across multiple partitions that I know of. I think that the only way you could do that is to build a RAID 0 array with the two SSDs and partition that as a single 240GB...

The major difference is the transfer speeds. The SATA bus and protocol is much. much slower than the NVMe protocol and PCIe bus. However, for normal desktop usage (non-benchmarking, non-extremely expensive commercial server farm usage) you most likely won't really see a difference except maybe...

You haven't said which version of Windows you are attempting to install?

I have the crosshair VI hero with an 1800X and G.Skill F4-3200C14D-16GTZ DRAM. The only issues I have run into were due to my own fault. I purchased 2 units of 2-set (2 * 8GB) without looking at the fine print in the QVL writeup. The MB only supports a single unit of the 2 * 8GB at 3200...

Honda DN01 and Subaru Legacy

If both your current PC and your old PC don't even see the SDD as a valid SATA device, then yes it sounds like something has become sufficiently corrupted in it that even the host interface portion of the firmware can't come up. In that case, yes it is bricked. I would suggest that you contact...

Contact Sandisk (Western Digital) technical support. They can assist you.

Any electronic device can be repaired once it breaks down, irregardless of warranty. The problem that occurs is that the repairs become much, much more expensive (cost prohibitive in fact) than simply buying a brand new device. In other words, you save more money by buying a new device rather...

SMART stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology. In the device's firmware it keeps track of specific statistics. Those statistics are what is being displayed. Overall the statistics can give you an understanding into how your device is aging. The display shows current...

But what about pin count? I thought the 965 was an am3 (941 pins) while the am2+ socket only supports 940 pins.

Okay, what data are you really trying to compute? If you are trying to compute how much space is being consumed on your SSD, then using LBA read/write count is not going to give that to you. SMART LBA reads/writes tell you how many operations have occurred in total since the drive was first...

If you are asking about raw reads & writes, then yes. Any utility that can display the S.M.A.R.T. data of the drive will be able to display what you are asking for. You can download a free copy of speccy to do this if you don't have any other utility. Also, usually you can download utilities...

All NAND degrades over time. You can write to a drive, remove the drive from the system and store it in a closet, come back "some time" later and see errors - just by sitting unused in the closet. That is the nature of the beast. What SSD manufacturers do is implement various algorithms that...

If you are planning on migrating to Windows 10 anyways I would not bother getting a Windows 7 license. Since you are saying that you want to become legitimate, why don't you purchase a legitimate Windows 10 license from a legitimate vendor (Microsoft itself, Amazon itself, Best Buy, etc.)...