storage

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%...

Hi, So I'm looking to buy an M.2 SSD which will hold my OS and maybe a ~2 games. I've narrowed down my options to the Crucial P5 Plus 500GB and WD Black SN850 500GB. So far I have confirmed that the M.2 Slot on my Asrock X570 Phantom Gaming 4 mobo supports the 2280 M-key type, but I need...

Hello, 1TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 64MB CACHE Currently getting i/o error whenever trying to access files on this drive from an SSD. Currently has Win10 installed as an OS. Cannot boot from this drive. Cannot access the files via another drive. Can access the...

Hello, I have a 5900X, with a Crosshair VIII Formula (X570) and a Strix 3080 on the 1st PCIe slot, the board comes with only 2x m.2 slots and its a bit less for such an expensive board. i have populated both m.2 slots and planning to add an m.2 nvme adapter.. but if i install anything on the...

Hello all, This is the main storage machine for my at-home wifi security cameras: https://us.eufy.com/products/t80301d1 Its called the HomeBase3 and it supports up to 16TB of "Any 5V 2.5" storage drive (HDD or SSD) with a SATA interface.Note: 12V storage drives are not supported. " I was...

Hello all, This is the main storage machine for my at-home wifi security cameras: https://us.eufy.com/products/t80301d1 Its called the HomeBase3 and it supports up to 16TB of "Any 5V 2.5" storage drive (HDD or SSD) with a SATA interface.Note: 12V storage drives are not supported. " 1. I dont...

Okay I’m looking at getting a new HDD to store games on and I’m torn between getting another Exos HDD or getting a WD Black HDD Currently have a Exos HDD for my main storage and a Samsung 970 evo M.2 for OS and frequently used programs Is there any advantages over one or the other? The WD...

I have made a post a couple of months ago with the same stuff going on, same model drive, same everything. https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/drives-failure-in-the-span-of-3-months.3760384/#post-22683580 It is 11 months exactly as my Seagate 2tb HDD died in the span of 30 minutes after a...

I'm looking for a budget SSD for my storage and right now PNY CS1031 is the closest one to my budget for 2TB NVME for some reason, other SSD 2TB prices are almost double than PNY CS1031 2TB, maybe because it's much slower but then again 1.000MB is more than enough for me anyway But I'm...

Hello everyone, this is my first question here. 😊 I want to expand my PC storage (and its speed) for audio production and I need 2 additional SSD Nvme drives for data and samples (2TB x 2). I already have 1 Nvme with the OS (and a HDD, which I'd disconnect and use as external backup). So, my...

Hello! My PC has 2 Nvmes on it, but it's the second one that's the issue here. While its had 2 since I bought it in Dec 2020, only about 2 weeks ago did I actually initialize it. I probably should've done it sooner, but I just never needed it. I had all my files and OS on the first one. Anyway...

I want to change my used storage space. and replace it with fake number. How do I do that?

I have my own physical dedicated server. 128gb of ram, 10TB and windows 11. I want to host/share/backup files for my friends the same-exact way Onedrive does. e.g. someone uploads a file and everyone can copy, delete or stream it, etc I'm looking for something that meshes with 'File...

I bought this ssd 2 months ago and it was working fine. Suddenly stopped working properly after an windows update. There was this issue with my motherboard ( Gigabyte) where sata hdd or ssd on the second slot would disconnect and reconnect randomly. Now the ssd is not being detected at all. Also...

Hi All, I am currently running 4x 4TB WD Gold Re HDDs in my HP Z640 workstation/server. These drives are in a RAID 5 array using the built in Intel(R) C600+/C220+ series chipset sSATA RAID Controller. My goal is to convert the current array from its RAID 5 level to a RAID 10 level. I have...

Hi there, I want to upgrade my laptop (LENOVO B570e) Huronriver platform with an SSD and ram. The device is running chrome os flex but I don't like it very much and want to install windows 10. The laptop's current config is 2 GB ram (1033mhz), 320 GB WDblue HDD (7200rpm) and intel i3 2310M @...