solid-state drive

Forum discussion tagged with solid-state drive.
  1. B

    Question Samsung SSD PCIe Gen Question

    I'm deciding on what 2TB SSD to get for my personal computer aiming to increase drive speeds from my standard hard drives; I have a B450 Tomahawk as my motherboard and its specifications support PCI-E 2/3. From my understanding, using a SSD with Gen 4 PCI-E is still possible but will be...
  2. TheFlash1300

    Question Is it true it's impossible to completely delete files from your computer?

    Hello. My laptop uses SSD. I want to know, is it true that when i delete files from folders and the Trash Bin, the files just disappear, but they are still on the SSD, and there is no way to erase them completely? If i perform a clean install, will the files be completely erased, or will they...
  3. TheFlash1300

    [SOLVED] How to check an SDD for bad sectors ?

    Hello. Can someone tell me how to check if my SSD has bad sectors, logical ones, and physical ones? CrystalDisk tells me the health of my SSD is now 97%, and i suspect there is an accumulation of bad sectors happening. I used HD Tune, but it says there are no bad sectors. I don't believe HD...
  4. boneless3vil

    [SOLVED] SSD + HDD = speed + storage?

    okay, so a while back I heard Intel was using SSD drives, then "spanning" them within HDD, so you can get the speed of the SSD drive, but the storage of the HDD. Essentially, the SSD would serve as a huge cachet for the much larger and slower HDD.:geek: How do I do this, though? do I need to...