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Hello, I was doing some troubleshooting for my pc as it has been having this issue where I need to force a shutdown to start it properly after having initially started it. Basically it turns on and shows the ASUS symbol and all, but then goes to black screen. My guess is that it is not loading...

hi, so im running a z790 DDR4 gigabyte mother board and looking at buying an M.2 ssd, my question is how can i know if my mother board supports the full speed of the ssd ? as my friend bought the crucial p5 plus which was advertised to provide up to 6600 mb/s but he was only getting 3000...

Before building a PC, and while searching for the best practices of making PCs more secure, I came across online articles and YouTube videos recommending the use of Password Managers, Antivirus/Internet Security suits, 2FA and YubiKeys, safe web browsers and web browsing habits, TOR and VPNs...

### Background I have an SSD connected by SATA running my OS. It's 128GB and has been due for an upgrade for a while. A few days ago, I bought a 1TB SSD M2 and I've been trying to clone the OS to it. Most programs I tried failed or were paid, but I remembered I tried (and gave up) cloning from...

Hey, I just booted up my PC for the first time today and it just restarted and gave me a BSOD WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR, then would post with a message saying to choose a boot option. I go into the BIOS to check the boot priorities to see my cloned Sabrent SSD no longer being recognized. Any...

Just bought a new motherboard (ASUS AM4 TUD gaming X570-Plus (Wi-Fi) AM4 Zen 3 Ryzen 5000) to replaced my old motherboard (ASUS ROG Strix B450-F Gaming Motherboard (ATX) AMD Ryzen 2 AM4) and for the first boot everything worked fine except my 2TB Samsung SSD (this is not the one with windows...

Hi guys, I'm trying to use clonezilla to migrate a windows OS installed into an ssd (512mb) to an ssd more larger(1TB). I have copied the image of the partition on a third hdd drive and it has works fine. Now I'm not sure what exactly I have to do. I have some question to recovery from image...

This one’s quite a lengthy read, but I’d appreciate it if you’re a tech wizard who could help. I made an audio file of this story to make it easier to digest: Backstory: So, a few days ago, I was trying to design a script for my controller while simultaneously asking ChatGPT questions on...

I decided to turn on my PC, but Windows didn't want to boot, it kept loading until I restarted and then "Reboot and select proper boot device..." appeared, then i tried turning it off and on, it loaded again but it still wouldn't boot. I did this over and over until it finally booted and I used...

Hello! Been having some issues with my new drive but got past pretty much all of them. Thought I was in the clear once I got the windows media creation tool to work. Shut down my pc, disconnected every drive except my new one and the usb stick with windows on it. Started to install it until it...

Next month, I plan to purchase a 2TB Silicon Power UD90 NVMe drive. My motherboard has an M.2 slot located directly below the GPU. It's worth noting that neither the NVMe drive nor the motherboard come with a built-in heatsink for thermal management. The motherboard in question is the Gigabyte...

Hi there! I've been trying to extend my laptop's storage and bought a Kingston KC3000 2TB M2 SSD as well as a Lexar NM790 4TB. So, after booting it for the first time everything installed properly etc, the devices were recognized and I was able to format them to NTFS. Then, I conducted a...

Yo! Got a custom im trynna upgrade. Had a 128gb kingston ssd for like 5 years and need a bigger one. Bought a 1tb samsung ssd. Been spending the past 6 hours figuring out how to clone the os along with everything from the kingston to the samsung. Most things have been fine, however, whenever i...

Topic title. I am currently running a 10th generation laptop with a RTX 2060 GPU. I'm running a 2x 2TB NVME and 1 8TB SSD in this laptpop. I'd like to be able to switch them over to a modern laptop. However, my research shows most modern laptops are strictly one or two NVME drives; to match...

Hello everyone! :) I recently bought a new m2 SSD that was in a good price range in my country. Its a WD green 1tb store. On my setup, I already have one m2 480gb and I also have one ssd sata 240gb (for my windows) and the old HD 2tb size (for all my junks). I know that I don't really need the...

Can someone tell if i can put a Gen5 SSD for example the Crucial T700 on my Z690 AORUS ELITE AX ? From what i know supports Gen4 And if i do, will i get the full speed of the T700 ?

I just plugged in my new NVME SSD into it's socket and it won't appear in the file explorer. there's this error message in the events tab (device manager): \Disk&Ven_NVMe&Prod_KZ512\5&1adc7406&0&000000 were not migrated from previous OS installation due to partial or ambiguous device match...

I recently bought a Samsung 980 pro nvme, for some reason it is locked at 3500 MB/s read and write speeds when it should be around the 7000 mark. I also have a samsung 970 pro ssd, that wouldnt fit into my mother board so I purchased a UGREEN NVMe PCIe Adapter, M.2 SSD to PCIe 4.0 X16/X8/X4 Card...

I have a 120GB SSD as a boot drive and a 2TB HDD for games/etc. Both are getting full (though practically the HDD has plenty of room), and the near-full SSD is causing some issues with saving. What method of upgrading storage would you recommend? Specific products (cheaper > quality) are...

I am in need of a new SSD as I have ran out of space and will never be using HDD again after I noticed how long it takes to load games !! I am thinking of buying 2TB SSD but would like your help deciding which one is the fastest and best. My budget is unlimited here. Currently have Samsung...

Hi, I have an issue that I cannot seem to solve anyhow, I've tried every possible thing, from reinstalling Windows to updating BIOS. Thing is, issue started popping up after I changed cases, moved all components to the other case and then this started happening. So what happens is that when I...

I am looking for a cost effective RAID Card to use for: Samsung 990 PRO 2TB Samsung V NAND 3-bit MLC PCIe Gen 4 Any thoughts. I do not want to spend $600 on a card if at all possible.

Long story short: My internal WD black storage device will no longer fit. This specific device : "WD Black 2TB AN1500 NVMe SSD Add-in-Card" Can i pop it into a smaller pciex1 slot or do i need an external enclosure? I'm using this board: ASUS ROG Strix B550-A Gaming AMD AM4 Any input is...

So yesterday I upgraded a number of items in my pc as I have done before multiple times. The pc on first start up, with my m.2 nvme ssd with Windows OS, reboots 5 or 6 times before the start screen finally comes up. I updated drivers and everything on the pc and cannot seem to find the issue...

Config: CPU: Intel Core i7 4790k (Stock Speed) Mobo: Biostar Z97x Psu: Thermaltake Smart SE 630W Ram: Avexir DDR3 16gb (4+4+8) Cpu Cooler: Cryorig H5 (Universal probably) GPU: Nvidia GTX 1050 ti (Either from Galax or Zotac) HDD: Toshiba 500 GB 7200 RPM SSD: HP EX900 M.2 500 GB * I didn't find...

hi there im looking for a budget M.2 SSD for my build. So far I searched my local shops and selected Geil Zenith P3L 512GB M.2 NVMe SSD, is it ok? Any other suggestions? My mobo is Asus Z490-P

Hello! I have a problem with Silicon Power PD60 NVMe SSD enclosure. It's very slow on my main computer - transfer speeds only ~40 megabytes per second on USB 3.1 gen 1 ports (Front and back). I tried it on other computer, and it worked fine (~200-300 megabytes per second transfers). It doesn't...

Let me list my specs, since I think thats the norm when asking for issues likes this: CPU - i9-9900KF GPU - EVGA RTX 2080 Super RAM - Corsair dominator 2 x 16GB Mobo - Asus Prime Z390-A 2 SSD: i) Samsung 970 EVO 1TB ii) Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2TB I’ve done just about as much googling...

I have my primary OS on a SSD Drive. I want to add a NVME drive for secondary storage. How would I set this up?

So I just bought a new Kingston KC3000 2TB SSD. I'll be using it for gaming, but also want to have Windows running from it as well. I've heard a number of times over the years where people swear you shouldn't have games installed on the same drive that the OS is installed. If so, I can just...

Hello, I know very little about technology & hardware. As such I’m looking for a little advice. I’m seeking an internal SSD for my PS5. The primary reason for this is increased storage space, and so I am looking for a 2TB variant. I have read that the Samsung 990 Pro is an excellent choice...

My PC is five years old and recently I checked CrystalDiskInfo and it shows my SSD's Health Status at 11%, but it doesn't show any caution signs (no yellow or red and every current and worst column has the exact same numbers). I also see no actual problems with the SSD itself. I can download and...

I recently did a storage upgrade on my 2020 Lenovo Legion 5, replacing the existing HDD with a 970 Evo SSD, and cloned the contents to the new drive. Upon running CrystalDiskMark on my existing and new SSDs, I noticed that the existing boot SSD was instantly hitting 70C+ and not cooling down...

My SSD is Lexar 1TB, it's 70% full and i have been using it for 1.5 years, during the test there weren't any other apps in background running, my motherboard is ASUS TUF GAMING B550M-PLUS (WI-FI) with newest BIOS version + chipsets are updated - speeds should be around 6K - 8K. Yesterday i...

UPDATE 3: Solved? seems like the 870 QVO sucks and there's nothing you can do about it, the write speeds will be limited to 80MB/s after the cache gets filled. I was noticing the extracting speed when using WinRAR was very slow, and decided to benchmark my SSD again to see if it's because of...

Quick question about the Crucial T700 https://www.msy.com.au/product/crucial-t700-2tb-ct2000t700ssd3-m-2-nvme-pcie-gen5-ssd-71100 This is my MB https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z790-GAMING-X-AX-rev-1x/sp#sp Now I understand that Gen5 SSD's will work in a Gen4 slot and visa versa, But will...

This is a bit of a convoluted problem, but essentially I experienced an overnight drop in the performance of my Computer, causing increased lagging and a general inability to use it properly. One notable symptom was a huge decline in Read and Write speed following a CrystalDiskMark test. Tests...

I have 2 HDDs where I use Hot Plug to remove one of them with the system still running, but after installing an NVMe SSD and installing Windows on it, that option to safely remove the HDDs no longer appears ? I had to move the 2 HDDs to different SATA ports because the NVMe SSD disabled 2 of...

I'm deciding which nvme should I buy. Here are my choices (feel free to suggest more) all are 1tb capacity: WD SN770 - 46usd (free shipping) Crucial P5 Plus - 60usd (free shipping) Sabrent Rocket 4.0 - 60usd (free shipping) Samsung 970 evo plus (not a gen4, but based on experience, my other ssd...