storage

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...

Hi, so I recently upgraded to windows 11 via formatting my windows installation disk and installing windows there, after installing I was able to load my secondary (D) disk once but after the first restart it could not be seen, the disk is made of 2 disks, I never had issues with them before and...

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 @...

Hello I have run into this issue where when I am playing games my computer will hard freeze and require me to suffocate it. Once since this has happened, I had a BSOD upon restart. My specs are pretty decent, I have heard that issues like this may be a RAM related fault but so far I have used...

Hi, I would like to know how to back up a drive if it randomly shuts down and disappear from the computer (to get it back, a full pc shut down is needed), and on the settings there is a warning saying that the drive is set to read-only, back up your data in case of drive failure. Here are two...

I bought a 1TB WD Blue PCI-E NVMe SSD (WDS100T3B0C) for my MSI B450-A Pro motherboard. I checked the MSI website and this SSD is compatible with my mobo so that is not the issue. I also used some canned air to clean out the slot prior to installing it to ensure I properly inserted the NVMe...

Hi, I want to know whether a 16gb 2666MHz single-channel ram handle 6tb of storage and also high end applications like photoshop, CATIA, Ansys? If yes please explain how? An amateur here, so i just want to know how it works. Thank you

Hi, I am in the process of buying new laptop. I will install Windows 11 on it and then all of the programs I need. I was thinking about cloning image (SSD state) afterwards. That would allow me to save time when i need to crash my system again. I have a few questions. 1) Can I clone SSD image...

Why is my brand new Adata SU650 SSD not detected in my ASROCK H310CM-HDV/M.2 BIOS? I want to install Windows 10 but my computer is unable to detect my new SSD. I only plugged in the said SSD with no other. The SSD works well in another computer.

Going to be upgrading my cpu (from an intel to amd) and motherboard pretty soon and wanted to ask about the windows 10 OS on my current SSD drive. To my understanding folks say when you switch to a new motherboard you have to reinstall the OS that is on your SSD/HHD drive, thus erasing the...

Hi, I have a WD120EMFZ that was perfectly working, and suddenly doesn't start. It doesn't make any sound, click or anything, and of course is not recognized by the system. Reading the forum it seems that If i'm lucky enough could be "only" PCB problem. The PCB part number is 006-0B40385...

Hi All, I recently asked a storage question on the forums related to one of my 4 HDDs (in a RAID 5 array) having some uncorrectable sectors after power loss, and subsequently, needing to replace it. I will more than likely be taking the opportunity to upgrade the storage capacity of the array...

Hi All, I am running Windows Server 2019 Standard on my HP Z640 Workstation, and this morning I noticed that my machine had crashed/rebooted. Looking at the logs, it seems that it was a critical kernel-power error, so it must have been a temporary power outage or issue. per usual in these...

Hello, I have recently completed a new build and I am having some issues with my M.2 slots. Specs: ROG Strix z590-E i5-11600k G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2400 EVGA RTX 3070 Ti Samsung 980 Pro NVMe OS drive Samsung 870 EVO NMVe Storage drive Windows 10 Home...

My laptop is HP 15-ef2127wm, I have been using it for 5-6 months and like every 2 months it's taking 1% of life of my SSD. Is this cause for concern? What should I do so that the percentage does not drop more? And why my SSD has 97% health?

I have an external drive that my system drive (C) is backed up to. However, when I boot my Windows 10 desktop, it seeks to boot from the external USB drive. How can I back up my C drive, without having it appear as a boot disk?

I’m planning on getting another nvme m.2 gen3 SSD so I can have more storage but on my mobo (mag b560 tomahawk wifi) there’s 2 m.2 gen3 slots but one of them doesn’t have a shield. Can I just move the gen4 m.2 shield to the slot that didn’t come with one?

I was holding my switched off external drive, while notifications on my watch bring vibration. My question is, is there gonna be physical damage from such a vibration?

Is the HDD controller would be damaged after many deleted partition or formatings been done? For example after 2 continuous deletion of partitions and formatings and creating new ones?

Greetings, I have been using Google Drive for over 10 years now. It worked exceptionally well, till last week! Now, it doesn't log me in automatically after PC boot, and asks me to log in again. OK, I try to log in, BUT, after 2FA is accepted, it says something really useful (well, it's...

If left the errors and the bad blocks aside, at what percentage of TBW is better to change the SSD drive? 60%?

My PC restarted during file transfer to an external drive., could this have damaged the drive? SMART is unchanged, no new errors. Files are fine, I had back-up.

Hello i have an Asus laptop that comes in with a 1 tb HDD drive and i recently bought an ssd (240 gb) and replaced the dvd drive with a rack for the hdd so i can boot the system on the ssd and use the hdd for storage (i'm pretty sure everyone is familiar with that). everything seems to work...

This is the information about the SSD I use currently: View: https://imgur.com/a4iO35C This is the information from Speccy: WDC PC SN520 SDAPNUW-256G-1014 (SSD) Manufacturer: Western Digital Interface/Connector: SATA 1.5 Gb/s with 22-pin SATA connector Interface: Unknown Capacity: 238 GB...

So I have an M.2 NVMe SSD already in the laptop, and i know there's a kaddy for a HDD/SSD but I dont know if its a SATA3 or faster port, and there's no where on the internet something concrete about it. Do you guys know a program or something that can see exactly what I m working with so I can...

I never used hash checking, but now I started to use SHA-256 for my files, should I change it for a different hashing type (MD5 or SHA-1)?

I solved this problem by setting timeout to 0, and disabling router signal booster (because pc was connected via WiFi). But in the end the file was uploaded successfuly, and the hash is matching (no data loss), despite two error. How is that possible? 10632 2 Error: Connection timed out after...

As I understand WD drive colors are describing different purposes of usage (Black - for server; blue- for pc's, Green- is ecology friendly, etc.). But how is they differs inside?

I regularly using this program because of speed and because is vendor specific software. How the "Extended S.M.A.R.T Test" is comparing to default surface scan or chkdsk?