storage

I have a Silicon Power 1TB SSD. I recently did a clean install of windows 11 on my PC. The Windows.old file was something like 550GB and I only had about 10GB of storage left on my PC so I wanted to clean up some space. I made a backup of the Windows.old file on and external drive and deleted...

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?

I'll keep it short: I am a software dev, I want to test cross-platform applications but I do not have an apple MacBook or similar. I do have a fairly adequate PC with a 256GB Sata based C drive for my main OS (W10), I also recently went out and got a 1TB NVMe (WD BLACK) for storing all my...

I have recently picked up a pre-loved mini pc from HP and upgraded it with few readily available hardware with me. The system is quite solid with i5 12 gen (10 cores and 10 threads) and 32 Gig of RAM. Its come with one NVME slot, multiple USB2 and USB3 ports but lacks SATA ports for me to boost...

I bought some NVME SSDs, but looking to return the ones I don't need. They'll mainly be used for Steam games and storing pictures/videos. What capacity should I keep and which one specifically? Do any of these need an additional heatsink?: - Crucial P3 Plus 2TB PCIe Gen4 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD...

Hi everyone, I've been trying for days, and out of frustration I thought I should ask for advice from you guys. Here's my issue: I have this external 500GB HDD that contains very important files. It's formatted to NTFS and has been failing to read/write, shows some bad sectors (forgot how many...

I need some help with the choice of SSD storage. I need an external SATA SSD. I need it for my work with my music projects. Installing plugins, having sound and presets downloaded onto the SSD and then used constantly (i'm guessing i need both good read and write speeds). Maybe i'm going to...

Hopefully I can get some help. Thanks in advance. I'm looking at the WD Black sn850X, Corsair MP600 Pro LPX,NextStorage and Kingston Fury Renegade. The 850X with heatsink is on sale for 142.99 right now and the MP600 Pro LPX is at 124.99 right now. I believe that both come with a 5 year warranty...

I was doing some work on my PC and left the room to grab a drink - when I came back, my computer had restarted itself which I'm assuming means it crashed. Now, there is a message that says "Reboot and Select proper Boot device". I have 2 M2 devices, a Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB (Windows...

Yesterday I have noticed, that my Samsung 970 EVO PLUS writing performance is seriously lagging behind. Magician said my disk have latest firmware. I did not notice any temperature issues it's stays around 40C(102F) +-couple of degrees. Status of the drive is good. I did a scan and it came out...

Hello! So as the title reads, I recently purchased another M.2 drive, the Samsung 980 PRO 1TB. Before, I was using Samsung 970 EVO 500gb with Windows installed on it. Now I have reformated my old M.2 and installed Windows on my second one (980). I get this message on startup "Reboot and Select...

Hello, I'm looking at two vps providers, one of them says they provide NVMe storage, and the other says they provide SSD RAID 10 storage. I do not know the differences between their performance (still trying to relate info from internet). My use case is wordpress websites and other webhosting...

hi all, i have a 5TB drive, about 90% full. and i tried connecting the drive to the front USB and rear USB, nothing happens. i waited half a day both times and absolutely nothing happens. i have tried this with USB drives, 2GB, 4GB all the way to 1TB, various drives with NTFS files on them, even...

I want to preface this by stating that I only have experience building new computers, and I have never explored the realm of switching from one computer to another. My current PC only contains a single 1TB M.2 NVMe drive that I use as my only storage source. It contains all of my game downloads...

Hey everyone, I recently encountered an issue with my old laptop, which seems to have a problem with either the graphics card or the motherboard. In order to retrieve my data, I removed the ADATA XNS381E-128GM-B SSD that contained all my files, including Windows. Now, I'm attempting to...

Hey guys! I want to know if putting games like Post Scriptum/Hell let loose/Squad (huge map games) etc on an SSD boosts or improves fps? When im playing Post Scriptum for example in the first 10-20 mins of the game i get decent 30-40 fps but when match gets intense my fps starts to drop on 12...

Hey there! So I just bought and installed a new M.2 drive, cloned my old drive to this new one, but I can't seem to boot from it (triple checked the OS DID copy over). The new drive shows up in disk management, Speccy, Windows explorer, and I can use it like normal, but it does not show up in...

So my problem is that my m2 slots are not working. They show up on windows and on bios but as i go into a game lets say "fifa 23" the disk M2 will stop working the game will crash and files on that disk will say that "Is not accessible, A device which does not exist was specified". I updated...

So after a while of using my computer, within the hour or sometimes longer, my hardrive gets errors like "a device which does not exist was specified" when trying to move or access certain folders (not all) or when scanning my drive for issues it fails to even scan the drive's errors. Once i...

Hello, I just took two hard drives (one SSD and one HDD) out of my old computer and added them into my new computer. They are visible in the BIOS, but when I try to find them in Disk Management in Windows, they don't appear at all - not even as black-colored drives (not sure if that stands for...

Hello Folks, I would REALLY appreciate some help with my new build. Summary: I have a newly built system that I installed Windows 10 Pro on a Samsung 970 Pro Evo NVME 512GB, installed Chrome, Steam, and a few other basic programs. Then I went to update the BIOS. Updated the BIOS from 816 to...

Hi, I'm looking for a decent M.2 NVMe so I can store games on it. Not thinking of spending too much on one, maybe around £40-£70. 1TB capacity onwards. Thanks!

As you can see, my desktop is very slow. The PC sometimes feels slower than it should be in some programs, but usually it works fine and I can play games just fine. My specs are: Ryzen 5 5600x 3070Ti ASUS ROG STRIX b550-E wifi Corsair 2x8 3600mhz (ram is working at full speed I checked) Samsung...

Hey everyone! I just wanted to confirm if this https://www.gigabyte.com/SSD/AORUS-NVMe-Gen4-SSD-1TB#kf will work with ps5. Image : View: https://imgur.com/a/zUGWTb5 I would really appreciate it if someone with the same SSD could share the experience. Thanks

Hello guys, I am currently using an m.2 nvme ssd and recently bought a sata ssd. I have a second Windows 11 license so I will use it to make my PC dual bootable. (Nvme for games and sata for school etc.) I want to move everything from my NVME to the SATA driver so I can fully clean my nvme...

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...