Recent content by michael.vaynard

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    Bitlocker on an SSD

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    Bitlocker on an SSD

    Hi guys. I just recently upgraded my old old laptop with an ssd (yay). As usual fashion for an office used laptop, I turn on Bitlocker and I realized the usage of the ssd spikes and the write and read is at a quite high numbers constantly. as SSD have a finite number of read and write, should I...
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    [SOLVED] SSD Occasionally "Missing" but is There in Device Manager With a Weird Name and an odd Capacity

    okay, so apparently there is a power delivery error and I have already got it sorted. How did I know this? by putting the ssd in a laptop and running it as the only drive. the windows would not boot and there are no response from the drive activity light that means the drive itself is not...
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    [SOLVED] SSD Occasionally "Missing" but is There in Device Manager With a Weird Name and an odd Capacity

    Hi, I have a secondary ssd for games only. its small at 111GB but its occasionally is missing from file explorer and other stuff but can be seen as a weirdly named hardware in WIndows 10 and having a WAY smaller capacity when populated at about 10MB. it will come back after a restart but it is...
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    My hard drive says it is failing (S.M.A.R.T warning) 2 years ago

    my hdd (a generic WD 5400 rpm 640GB hdd came with my Acer Aspire 4752) announced that it is dying on a windows 7 pop up 2 years ago. I run sentinel and it seems to confirm it. Since I have a backup on cloud and on a second tower, I reset windows which was chugging at the time and is unable to do...