storage

Recently my (old) hard drive started making this noise, it sounds like it spins up, clicks then spins down, though im not sure. Does anyone recognize a drive sounding like this? What's the cause and are those the last days of its life? (ignore the 2 short buzzes those are from my phone)

Hello everyone. I have noticed some storage changes after I restarted my PC. When I boot my PC, it says that I have 17.8GB storage left. When I restarted my PC, it now says it has 29.9GB. What could be the possible cause for this?

13th Gen Intel i9-13900K 3.00 GHz ASUS ROG Strix Z790-E Gaming WiFi 6E LGA 1700 EVGA FTW3 3080 5x Samsung 980 pro 2t M.2's raid-0 Intel 900p Optane 480g pcie agility 120g SSD 3x WD 2t HDD raid-0 4 sticks of G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB 32GB (16GB) 6000MT So the issue is the PC started to have the...

hello i i have lot of folders and many duplicate folders on few hard drives, i wanted to know is there any progream that can scan all hard drives at once and show me folders that have the *exact* same content inside? i want them to be marked or something so i can delete some duplicates folders...

Hello there, i just installed a new m.2c SSD (Kingston KC3000 500GB), i cloned my old ssd to the new nvme. all worked fine. then i wanted to test the speed of the new nvme with CrystalDiskMark and it only showed 3500 Mbit/s of the advertised 7000Mbit/s i already changed some settings in the...

I have been using Dropbox since my college years, and for the past 8 years i started my own company so I signed up with its unlimited storage plan. My major was movie directing and editing assistant. So more 20 years of stuffs are all in my Dropbox, about more than 100TB. This year Dropbox...

I recently bought my friend's system as he was moving abroad and I have had some concurrent issues with my motherboard. Before I switched hardware all drives worked and had 95%+ on crystalDisc. Now, my two M.2's and two SSD's work fine, but my two HDD's will not read. I have two questions...

for long term storage of large files is better ssd or hdd (internal +adapter, external, hdd notecook +adapter) ? mdisc bluray and its drive are very expensive, in moment I don't have money to buy a lot of storage media

Hi, I've got a new drive, I can either clone the drive that contains the efi system boot and recovery or i can clone the drive with the operating system, at the moment i have the windows installation cloned. When i remove the old drive that had windows and boot from the efi on the other drive...

Hey, I have a Legion Slim 5 and I’ve been waiting for sales to start so I can grab a 2TB SSD. I’m currently debating between the WD SN850X and the SK Hynix Platinum P41. They’re both in the $100 range but something I’m really looking for is a sound cloning software. I recently cloned a Sabrent...

Hi guys, I am very new to storage devices and I would like to know which SSD is better for gaming purposes only The first one I saw within my price range is a Crucial MX 500 500GB 6.35cm (2.5inch) SSD costing 3,059 INR or 36.75 USD Samsung 870 EVO 500GB 6.35cm (2.5inch) SSD (MZ-77E500) in a...

My motherboard doesn't support a m.2 ssd slot, my motherboard is a ECS H110, and I used up all the 4 sata data slots. so, does this expansion card https://www.amazon.in/gp/product/B082D6RF6S/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A3H89GH4UYZJ49&th=1 will work with this m.2 ssd...

My specs z97k i7-4790k rtx 2070 16gb ram corsair tx850w Before, the only SSD I had on this computer was for the boot drive, I played all the games on HDD. I have 2 HDDs on this, one for installed files another for storage. I decided to buy an SSD to improve loading times and such and to play...

I recently upgraded my motherboard & CPU with a Gigabyte Z690 Gaming X and an Intel i5-13600kf. I booted up the pc and in the bios it says that it can't detect a boot path and I've noticed in the M.2 area and options menu that nothing is being detected when it was clearly installed. I've tried...

I don't usually do this but I've been out of touch with storage and drive technologies for a little while but I'd now like to update my desktop while SSD storage is relatively cheap. I'd usually do all my own research but this time I'm short of time so looking for suggestions: I have an...

I want to purchase the Seagate 4TB Expansion portable STKM4000400 and want to use it as a backup drive. This model does not come with software according to Seagates website (2nd link below). Not sure if this is the toolkit software that some models include or not. But I see in the 1st link below...

I just upgraded my RAM with two 16 slots today and now my storage is just completely full ?

Hi guys I have a kingston 3,5 ssd, it randomly disconnects while the pc is on, the pc starts to lag but doesn t enter blue screen.If i restart it, task manager only shows up the m2, if i restart it once more it shows up like nothing happened. The weird thing is that it still shows it in Bios.I...

Heya, iam looking for a external storage for data. Mostly pictures in raw format, personal data, aso. I dont need fast ssds, or fancy stuff. Iam looking for long lifetime (the ssd wont be used much so no probs with override) Iam planning to buying 2 500gb~ (one for backup of the first) Iam...

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...

Hi All, This may be easy for all of you, but I'm stumped and couldn't find a solution elsewhere on the internet. I recently had a motherboard begin to fail (I think, still waiting on a replacement to ship) and in the process of figuring out what was wrong with my PC, I reinstalled Windows a...

:) hello, greetings.. I want to know if i can use the disc from my failed external hard disk into new one ? I have this sony 1 tb external hard disk which failed in 2021 due to some power issues i guess, it started to sound like tik-tik , no more readable or anything however some software...

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...

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...