Solid State Drive

Can some please help me , I have laptop Dell XPS L 502 X (i7/1 TB) , i want to install SSD drive in this, Is in this M .2 slot in this or not ? or Which SSD type is this laptop support ?

Hiyo, Tom's Hardware folks. Been a long time. I'm looking for some assistance after having installed a new MOBO (Asus TUF Z390-PRO) and CPU (i9-9900k) onto a system. After rummaging with the system as it was for a day, I decided to make the decision to do a fresh Windows install (while buying...

After booting off my new SSD, I no longer can find files in my HDD. It’s like they no longer exist. When I click on windows and search for applications and files that I have on my HDD they do not show up but hey are still there. I can still find the HDD applications that I have on it but when I...

I have an SSD with windows installed on it as my C drive My friend just got a PC so i wiped one of my old hard drives and installed windows on it using my own PC The problem is now that i have had two different drives with windows on it, my PC keeps asking me which one i want to log on, even...

I found this adapter that plugs instead of the CD reader which have SATA ports on it, so I decided to buy it and plug an SSD to it since my laptop runs off an HDD and its really annoying how unresponsive it is just wondered will it have standard W/R speeds? or will it be throttled, if it does...

I was comparing some NVME SSD's and ran into this. How come some SSD's have cache memory, but price difference is minimal? Is cache important? Will it affect gaming? What is the best choice between those 3 (except Samsung in 1TB category and ~ 512GB category). Will seq. read/write of...

I have 2 OS Windows 7 and Windows 10 I recently got banned from a game that I like of no apparent reason, so I bought and installed a new SSD and a new HDD, but I don't have a USB so I just added the windows 10 installation on the HDD and made it a partition then installed it to my SSD and it...

Hi. I have been having issues with my PC and I basically stress tested all my components besides my HDD and SSD. I looked around google and there was this one program with a really vague explanation on the way it works, that ended up not working. So if you know of a way to stress test storage...

I recently bought a new PC but want to connect my old SSD and HDD. Both of them seem to have a pirated version of windows but my new PC has a clean copy. Will I have any issues if I simply install them like a normal hard drive or do I need to partition/wipe them before installation?

I've been receiving the message: "SATA SSD on Controller 0, Port 5: At risk (SMART event)" for the past couple of days. Obviously an impending problem is on the horizon, but I have no idea what it is or how to fix it. Can someone please help me identify the problem and how to go about fixing it...

Actually i am planning to buy new SSD drive of 1TB but When i search online i found 4 options where is capacity is same but price is vary therefor i am confused which one to buy below is the list and its Url 1 Samsung 860 QVO 1TB 2.5-inch Internal SATA III SSD (MZ-76Q1T0BW)...

Hi! I hope I'm posting this to the right place. Sorry if not. Anyways, so I was gaming a couple days ago and my PC crashed to blue screen. When it booted back up, my HDD was not showing up. Seeing as how the HDD's about six years old now, I wasn't too terribly surprised and ordered a new 1TB...

My brand new Samsung 860 EVO is only showing 698 gb of storage in file explorer. Using Samsung magician it says that the drive has 932 gb of usable storage so its clearly an issue with either windows 10 or my installation rather than the drive itself. Ive tried to use extend volume in disk...

Hey guys, So I'm temporarily using a gaming rig with only a 250GB SSD, so I'm often faced with uninstalling games to install other games. I have fast internet so its not a huge deal. Today, I uninstalled the Witcher 3 to download Playerunknown's Battlegrounds. I had about 10 GB free...

I just got a new PC and I have run out of storage on my SSD so I can't download anything else onto my PC. How do you make your secondary installer (my hard drive) into the main installer for files/apps? Thanks

So guys i have 2 HDDs in my pc and DWD/RW 1 HDD (Seagate Baracuda ST500DM02) 500GB SATA 3i-s where OS is installed and some games/programs etc..I have bought this HDD used for decent price in 2017. 2 HDD (Seagate Baracuda ST3160815AS) 160GB SATA 1-im using this HDD for 11 years and did not have...

Kingston A400 Kingston V300 Kingston UV400 Crucial SSD BX500 Which one would you choose? These are the ones I'm considering. I don't need anything fancy, just to do its job, I'm only spending 20-25 euros on it and I don't need anything fancy. Please don't suggest more expensive SSDs, but I'm...

So, as the title states, I have just built a new PC for a friend. Here are the specs. Asus z170-E 6700k i7 24gb ram (2x8 corsair, 2x4 gskill) RTX 2060 1 512gb Samsung SSD 860 (sata) - this drive read right away and i was able to put windows on it and everything is running as it should 1 512gb...

So I got a new Samsung 256 GB SSD, and when I check it's health, it was 98%. Should I get it exchanged? Or should I just use it since it shows excellent condition. I have 1-year warranty on the product.

Hello! So, I made a few VMs, one Windows 7, One Ubuntu 18.10, and the other, Windows 8.1. All of them boot up fine. But they have slow performance. I'm not sure why (I don't run them at the same time) I give each of them 4 Gb of RAM, 2 Cores and around 100 mb of video memory. I just can't...

Hello I'm upgrading two computers with SSD drives and as I red from the internet, MLC is more reliable than TLC SSD's. So my question is, which would be a good MLC SSD with an affordable price (around 60$), storage space can be around 250gigabytes. (installing OS to the SSD and storage will be...

This is my first time looking into building a computer for myself and I need help with my ambition. I plan for my dream computer to use both a 500Gb M.2 PCIe SSD and 1Tb SATA HDD and I want to know which motherboard could support both. Also, the motherboard has to be able to support Intel 8th...

So here are the read and write speeds for my SSD, i've had the SSD since maybe 2014-2015 As I can see the write speeds are not up to par? From Amazon Sequential read/writes up to: 555/510MB/s https://www.amazon.com/Kingston-HyperX-120GB-SH103S3-120G/dp/B007R67FNA View...

My case is Kolink Horizon RGB ( https://www.caseking.de/en/kolink-horizon-rgb-midi-tower-tempered-glass-black-gekl-033.html ). It has already four fans, but has space for two more. So is it worth it to add those two and if yes, should they take the air in our push is out? Also what case fans...

specs: GIGABYTE GA-F2A78M-HD2 AMD A8 7650k MSI GTX 1050ti 4GB ram i just play a games that is not that demanding like dota 2 (ultra) league of legends (max) CSGO (max). if possible can i play PUBG (very low will do with 4 GB of ram or i upgrade it for 8 GB)

So which one is better for low temps and quiet noise for i7-7700k Usually i use my pc for rendering and gaming be quiet! Silent Loop 240mm or Corsair H100i v2 ? Which do you think better for low temps and quiet noise Please comment about your opinion.

Hey all, I have been living abroad for a while and have had a cheap office computer, however it has a lot of important files on it, so I brought it's drive back with me when I came home. My plan was to move it into my gaming PC, and either be able to switch back and forth by choosing which...

My on board sata controller is not reading my 5TB hard drive properly anymore but my PCI Sata controller reads it just fine. Is it time to replace my motherboard? I recently ran into two problems 1)Low wattage for my old power supply(has been replaced) and 2)my 5tb hard drive being read like...

C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download\25170e623417b9e4d74ea98ea09d633e\PFL_Package_for_RollupFix~~AMD64~~16299.334.1.4.xml How do I fix this? I get a BSOD then do the scan as the article suggests (sfx/scannow) and it says that it has found corrupted files but cannot fix them. Then I follow...

Hello. I am just looking for an opinion. My plan is to build eGpu dock for laptop. I have an old HD7950 which needs 2 x 6 pin PCIe power connectors from PSU. PSU will only be powering the card itself (~200w). I was looking for the cheapest PSU with two 6 pin PCIe connectors and I found this...

My custom PC is fully assembled and working very well. One of my case fans has a 3 pin connector and a MOLEX power cable. the fan was working very well. but i realized that I had connected only the molex and the 3 pin was not connected. I connected them both. the 3pin as well as the molex...

My ISP (Comcast) provides me with a 75 Mbps connection (speedtest.net often yields 88-89 Mbps). I am using an Apple Airport Extreme router with a ARRIS SURFboard DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem (SB6141) modem. All of my devices in the house are properly downloading around this speed, except a certain PC...

i am using ASUS X555L model laptop, even after shutdown the laptop also battery is going to dead stage...please help me out from this issue.

Looking for suggestions for screen-recording software for me to record my screen as I narrate (for training purposes). I'm always a bit skeptical of these types of programs (a bit concerned about security, and these types of programs "phoning home" when in use--or not in use). Any suggestions...

I moved into a new apartment recently and found plates with connectors on the walls, among them some connectors for surround sound (judging from context). I don't have any experience with surround sound, but I do with all three phone jack sizes (2.5mm, 3.5mm and 6.3mm[1/4"]) as well as RCA...

i had 500 gb hard drive. i had windows 7 ultimate installed. due to a virus attack i formatted my laptop and reinstalled windows 7 PROFESSIONAL. when i started up 100 gb of my space and a 100MB partition called system reserved was invisible. please help. 100 gb gone is a big matter

I have an anti-virus software I want to test. I was wondering if there is any software out there that would allow me to monitor an infected PC via another PC? Thank you!

So i have a JBl creature II whose speakers don't work anymore...

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My budget is 400 and below$-490$ and I mainly focus on Rendering, Programming, Unity5 , and some Visual Studio. I have allways wanted a AMD-FX machine but Hyper-Threading and Turbo boost are some technologies i really need. So far i have been looking into i5's, i do some light gaming but am fine...