ssd & hd

I've been plagued by this issue for ages now. Here's the text from my original post where I suspected my issue was either ESET Antivirus/encryption or the external SSDs I was using. I've now eliminated ESET as a suspect and I am left with only the SSDs as the cuplrit: As we speak I have been...

I don't have a huge amount of knowledge when it comes to computers. A while ago a pre-built gaming pc was bought for me and not too long ago the CPU up and died on me. I just got a new CPU, put it in the pc, and now the small external 128 GB Samsung 850 EVO that has my windows 11 installed on it...

Hello everyone, I appear to be having an issue with a Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2tb NVME that I purchased August 2023. The issue that I am having is that, whenever I am playing a game like Overwatch or Warframe, the game will freeze and will not fully close. It will then require me to force shut...

Okay, i know this is a complicated problem, but I bought a new laptop, MSI Katana 17.3', the SSD was tiny and there's only room for one unless i buy a bracket, so i thought i'd just buy a new one, and install Windows manually. I bought this one...

Im currently using a KINGSTON SA1000M8240G PCI3 as a boot drive (1500 Mb/s Reads/800Mb/s Writes, 100000 iops). Ive recently upgraded to a pci4 platform and im wondering if i should upgrade. I dont have large bandwidth needs, im mostly seeking improved load times for programs/games, boot time...

I have an Asus Prime H610M-E mobo & I want to add a Seagate Barracuda Q5 500GB M.2 NVMe Gen3 ×4, 3D QLC SSD. Will it work on my mobo? Also I have a HDD, which I want to use as a secondary drive & want to install Windows on the new SSD Could you guys guide me or give any proper link for...

So i have a m2 nvme that has went ghost it has disappeared and now a scsi rom it says and cannot for the life of me figure out how to get it back to what its supposed to be a samsung nvme m2 drive its 500gb but now only shows 1gb can anyone help?? ive done a clean install aalso bios was...

I'm looking for an external SSD backup drive for my OS drive (2 TB SSD nvme) and my 4TB WD black HDD. My motherboard is capable of USB 3.2 gen 1 but the external drive I need, the Samsung T7 Shield 4TB, Portable SSD, is USB 3.2 gen 2. Data caps at up to 1,050 mb/s. Will the transfer speeds be...

I have a laptop that has an m.2 ssd slot. I am looking for an SSD to go in it. I am not sure if it supports Gen 4, but a Gen 3 SSD I know that it supports. I am looking for recommendations. I want to go with a trustworthy brand. I am now thinking about 512 GB but could go as big as 1TB. I have...

Hi, yesterday my power went out, and one of my two NVMe stopped work, I tested all of my drives and found the bad one, put the windows on this other NVMe and notice that was really slow to boot, when I opened the disk management my NVMe and my HDD was listed as a single disk (I didn't do raid)...

I have an old external 3.5-inch HDD. For lack of a normal SATA-USB cable, I want to use its enclosure to connect a 2.5-inch SATA SSD to my PC's USB port. The HDD enclosure has a separate AC power cable. When I opened up the enclosure, I saw the AC power goes directly into the PCB, which has a...

Hello guys, I currently have a Seagate ST1000LM035-1RK172 1000GB SATA HDD on my Lenovo Ideapad 320-15ABR 80XS and I want to update to an SSD because the HDD is really slow and is crashing very often now. This laptop is still in a very good condition with decent specs (4CPU, 8Threads at 2.7GHz...

Hi, I am new here so I hope my question is in the correct place and format! PC: OS: Windows 11 MB: Gigabyte A320M-h CPU: Ryzen 7 5800X3D GFX: Radeon RX 6800 RAM: 2x Kingston 16GB 3200MHz DDR4 Power: 700W Mid range power supply Storage: SATA 1T HDD (windows installed here) & Kingston FURY...

Hello. This are my specs I9 9990KF Asus Maximus Hero 64Gb Ram 2xWD Blue SDD Sata 2xCrucial BX400 SSD Sata Both crucial drives were bought together. At install they ran perfectly. Then they started slowing down to like 90mbps. Then the problem seemed to go away... The crucial drives randomly...

I have 4 options that I can pick from but I really do not know which to pick: 1-Lexar nm620 256gb 2-WD blue 250gb 3-Kingston Nv1 4-Crucial P2 250gb I have tried to do some research but I was so confused and could not find a definitive answer for that. Thanks in advance

Hello, i'm thinking of ways add more storage to my PC and was checking PCI-E to M2 SATA adapters like this one My question is how many PCI-E lanes these adapters use, i read that SATA does not use pci-e lanes, read that it uses 1 lane, i got very confused. Do i need to bifurcate my pci-e slot...

My computer now freezes before the BIOS if my previously-working 2.5" SSD system drive is plugged in. 1. Not the cables: My other SSDs work fine using any of the power or data cables. New SSD windows install is working fine. 2. Point of freezing: It displays in the lower-right corner which...

Me and a friend have spent literal hours trying to figure out this mystery. So I recently upgraded my pc. I was on a bugdet so I only transfered my old hdd to my new pc. It has all my files including OS. I'm trying set the ssd as a bootable device so I can transfer everything to that. But it...

Hello, I have the G2020, but it's slow using autocad programs. I want to replace it with another faster, and this is my question. My system is under windows10 motherboard ASUS P8H61-M LX R2.0 Graphics the AMD Radeon HD 5700 Series, 12 GB DDR3 RAM, ROM 250 SSD and HD 500GB. So, in my...