storage

I recently replaced my 860 evo ssd with a NVMe 980 pro but I've noticed a drop in fps in various games by 30%. My pc specs: CPU: i9-10900F Motherboard: MAG Z490 Tomahawk Ram: Corsair Vengeance 16Gb 3600 GPU: Gigabyte RTX 3060 Ti Storage: Samsung 980 pro Psu: Asus ROG Strix 750w Gold I don't...

I've had intermittent trouble with my SSD, usually in the form of it randomly appearing and disappearing (both from Windows and from the BIOS). After trial and error I seem to have narrowed it down to a power problem. The SDD seems to work fine when plugged into SATA and power, but using that...

I am planning on adding some more storage to my PC. I currently have an NVME M.2 SSD and want to keep that for OS and games I play frequently. I will add a second SSD for everything else. What is the best way to move all my other files to my new drive?

Hi, any info is appreciated. Just moved a few monitors to the attic. My question is, can they stay there year round? There are no leaks and its a ventilated area. I live in Chicago, temps during the winter reach between 26 °F - 36°F, with summer coming up temps average around 78°F – 92°F

I bought my first NVMe type device: Kingston NV2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD 250G M.2 2280 - SNV2S/250G https://amzn.eu/d/eKTjEcK With intention to use in on older sata laptop, using an enclosure. I thought this was an m-key connector when I look it up. But all state "5 pins" identifier. Strangely...

I recently bought a WD BLACK AN1500 2TB NVMe SSD with the intent on using it as a new boot drive. This is my first time using a PCIE slot type of storage so I expected some things to go weird but there's still two issues I haven't been able to solve. For context, I cloned my original boot...

Hello. I have a ASRock Z370 Pro 4 motherboard. My friend linked me an internal SSD to use for a decent price. https://www.newegg.com/intel-1tb-670p-series/p/N82E16820167474?Item=N82E16820167474&SoldByNewegg=1&quicklink=true Would this work on my motherboard? I do not trust myself to make...

Ok, a backstory: So I badly needed a storage upgrade since I'm currently running 5 small (Mix of 128s, 500s, 320s) SSDs and HDDs. Thought I'd move to all SSD storage and I wanted to use two separate SSDs. One as boot drive and the other as my main drive for storing data and games etc. My...

Hi all, I just cracked open my ASUS Flipbook 12 Model TP203N in the hopes of upgrading the SSD to a 500GB Samsung SSD. But I dont know where to find the current Storage Drive on it. Can anyone take a look at the pictures I provided and circle where the Storage is for the Flipbook 12? (edit the...

There was a short power outage while my pc was in sleep mode. Normally, this doesn't really affect anything and it usually just shuts down just like this time. Only now when I turn it back on it displays a message that says " No operating system found -- Try disconnecting any drives that don't...

I have x99 system and I am looking to update my SSD since it's getting old and my HDD can't handle anymore the tasks that I require which is running multiple android studio emulators at the same time. My ram and cpu and gpu are just fine, but I really wanna upgrade my storage to SSD nvme at...

Hello everyone, I am getting INCREDIBLY frustrated with this problem I have been having. I cannot seem to find a solution for the past 3-4 months and I do not feel like spending $100+ to have this diagnosed at a PC shop, seems like a scam to me. Anyways, I have finally bought my first SSD. I...

For some reason games installed on my Crusial P3 Plus (PCiE 4.0) 3.0 in use as 10th Intel doesn't support 4.0, games stutter. I9 10900k with Two tower cooling 16gb 3600mhz cl16 Crusial Ballistix RTX 2070 strix Z490 Msi gaming plus While installing something, when this drive was used as...

One day while playing Overwatch my PC froze, I couldn't alt F4 or anything and had to force quit. This kept on happening more and more over the last week until the PC froze After 5-7 mins of doing nothing. I figured that there was a problem with my Graphics driver so I uninstalled it to reset...

I had this problem for a while now, on some occasion my PC display would suddenly turn off while the power is still on so I have no choice but to force shutdown it. Tried reaching out to other Tech specialist if they could pinpoint what's the problem I am having but none of them could fix and...

Hello, so all of a sudden my computer stopped recognizing my M.2 drive. Windows runs on a Samsung SSD and in the past week I've noticed that it takes a while to load and it stays for around 30 seconds on the bios logo and today the M.2 drive where I keep my files just disappeared. I checked disk...

I just restarted my pc and when i went to check the storage folder it told me that 400gb/1tb of space of is in use even though i just restarted it. When looking closer it says that "Other" is using up all that space. What could that be, is windows 11 that large or is something else? Help much...

I recently bought a 1 tb Crucial BX500 SSD for my laptop and its health is already down by 3 percent Should I be worried? Is this normal?Screen shot from diskinfo

Hi everyone, I just bought an external 8Tb SSD and I was starting to copy-paste some stuff into it - movies and TV shows basically. However, after removing it from the computer, it always loses the data. In the pictures below, you'll see: a Dragon Ball Z folder of 251Gb with all the content...

Hello, So i was looking for Seagate BarraCuda pro 14 to 18 Tb HDD but i can't find it here in Canada or any decent size (10 Tb or above) Seagate BarraCuda pro. I heard that Seagate discontinued the Barracuda series and I don't think Seagate Ironwolf (NAS) or Exos (for Servers/data centers) will...

I recently bought a 'Lenovo ideapad gaming 3 15ach6 amd ryzen 7 5800h/16gb/512gb ssd/rtx 3050ti/15.6" '. For what I read/saw online, it was possible to add an HDD. Also the laptop came with an HDD tray and screws for it, so I assumed that was the case. When I opened the laptop here's what I...

So I want to store my videos, audio, applications, steam games backup (my PlayStation 1,2,3,4 games' ripped discs/blurays/folders/backups) and to install some older games, Application setups, Archive files Photoshop/premier/Cubase projects and unreal engine / blender / Daz Studio library and...

Dear smart ppl, I am having some weird issues that I think are related to my Samsung SSD, which contains my win10 OS. The smart thing might be to just get a new one and reinstall windows, but I would like to keep configs and such. Hoping there is a way to fix my issue without a clean install...

so i got a new m.2 SSD and my motherboard only has 1 m.2 slot with an ssd in it already. this ssd has windows on it. i also got a 1tb hdd though and I really want to upgrade from my installed ssd to this newer one i got but how do i literally swap them out and fresh install windows with an usb...

I bought and built this PC about 9 months ago and everything was perfect but I don't know how to activate my 2nd SSD (nor can i tell them apart of which one is actually doing all the work) my SSDs are Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1TB NVME M.2 2280 Samsung 870 EVO 1TB SATA6GB 2280 I tried going into...

Well, I'm about to spend some money on a setup, but came across a major question. I found two HDDs. Both SATA. Very different storages. One 20 TB and the other 8TB. But what's intriguing are the specs. 4TB one says 3000 megabytes per sec 20TB says 285 megabytes per sec but they also include the...

Hello I have C: SSD with Windows 10 and D: HDD with the data like documents and so on, but also I use that D: for games installation folder. And for example, Steam and Epic etc. are installed on C: but games are put in D:. Now I want to completely get rid of that HDD and put SSD instead. How to...

I bought a Lenovo Ideapad 3i, and i like to have a 256GB SD card inserted into my laptop that acts as "permanent" storage so that I can keep my work on an encrypted removable device, even though it is almost never removed. It's a bit idiosyncratic but it's what I like. Anyway, the Ideapad has a...

hello, i am currently about to do a completely new build and my question is if i just take out 1 of my 2 M.2 ssd's out of my old pc and install it in my new computer, will i have to still re download all my games and applications? i have no real care for my files i just mainly want to be able to...

i downloaded gta v from steam and now in storage part of windows settings it registers twice, once as a separate app and once as integrated steam storage. like steam is showing 175 gb which adds up to gta and other games but then there is the gta v app that registers 109 gb can anyone tell me...

Hello everyone. I'm an unexperienced builder and I have a question regarding the compatibility between an SSD and a Mobo. I was interested in purchasing the Asus ROG Strix B550-F Gaming Wifi II Motherboard. On my current PC I have an ADATA XPG S40G SSD. Now here's the issue that's causing some...

Hey everyone! Recently built a new rig and bought a 2TB kingston fury renegade M2 SSD. It shows up in BIOS , in device manager but not in Disk Management (and not available in 'My PC' on windows) i have read many threads on this forum and tried changing BIOS settings, reseating the M2 drive in...

Hi, I just built my new rig and had to buy a better PSU. MB: ASUS TUF X570 Plus WiFi CPU: 5800x3d GPU: 6950xt PSU: Thermaltake 1200 80 Plus Platinum Memory: Samsung EVO 980GB RAM: Corsair Vengeance 36000 16x2 And once everything was good but installing the PSU caused my computer to boot into...

Hi all, my old computer blew up and ended up replacing motherboard, cpu, ram. Got a new Samsung M2 NVME and re-installed windows on this drive (Disk 3 in disk management). Plugged in my 3 old SDD/HDD however could only see old windows boot drive (Disk 1 Samsung SSD 850 EVO 1TB) which is still...

I'm looking to upgrade to Win10 soon, win7 -> win10 rather than clean install of win10 preferably. In preparation for that picked up a 2tb 970 evo plus M2 NVME. Installed it (z270, msi m6 ac. ), can see it in disk management. Cloned my SSD with Win7 to the 970 and tried to boot from it, only...

hi guys im , im not very well versed with the hard drives.. so i wanna ask if the HDD WESTERN DIGITAL WD60EFZX RED PLUS NAS 6TB 3.5'' SATA3 is a CMR drive ? (the 128mb Cashe version) and i want to use him for normal desktop use as a storage drive (videos, movies, games ,work files etc)... is...

Hi guys, I just bought a second NVME drive for my motherboard. I reluctantly bought the drive without doing any research on my motherboard as it's quite old and I completely forgot what it supported. This drive was meant to replace my boot drive and I would then re-use the old boot drive for a...

Hello So I just bricked a Mobo when upgrading my CPU from a 3000g to a 3600. I got a new Mobo PRime a520m-a II I had been using a Crucial P2 500GB PCIe M.2 2280 SSD as the only storage device (has windows and files on it currently) I swapped everything to the new mobo adding a graphics card to...

Is there a reason that nearly all mini PCs have a storage capacity - either combined, or per slot - of 2 TB? I'd love to purchase a mini PC to replace my tower (I don't play any games, so graphics aren't a real problem), but need 4TB on a 2nd drive for all my data.

My drive just finished WD Lifeguard extended scan 4+ hours, resulted in a healty drive (SMART is reporting no changes in attributes). But when I do WD Dashboard Extended Smart test it stuck at 90%, still running (5+ hours). Task manager showing no drive activity (neither write or read, 0%...