storage

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?

Does someone used drive like that and why?

If I filled more than 75% of the SSD free space, will speed be affected or files integrity? Or it's a myth?

Hi, I yesterday while playing a game it told me it failed to create a save, so further investigating I realized my C: Drive, which has exactly 40GB, now only had 80MB!! I unfortunately haven't had much time to test this, but I have found out: -Resetting my PC "empties " this phantom data...

Is it necessary to defrag NTFS drive, that working as SMB and FTP share? I have a 100 megabit lan, so logically I don't see any need to defrag. Because transfer average speed is 5 megabytes. I'm on a right side?

Apacer AS340x -120gb (70 TBW) There is no health %, so I don't know how much is left. Approximately I used 2-3%? Thanks Crystal Disk Info: View: https://imgur.com/a/qfXd0W0

Can file be corrupted, even if size unchanged? Thanks.

i accidentally put an unplugged HDD, along side plugged and working an external usb drive. Would theexternal drive be damaged by the magnetic field?

Hi! I have a problem with two of my disks, one SSD and one HDD. They work as usual, I can copy, move or install things on them. The problem starts when I want to play games, they will take a LOT to start, textures and animations won't load, and sometimes it suddenly crashes the entire S.O...

I changed 3 cables and 3 ports, no luck. Intel Memory and Storage Tool: View: https://i.imgur.com/TivrhoE.jpeg Crystal Disk Info: View: https://i.imgur.com/6NKbYyX.png

I am planning to have a PC setup that includes a small boot drive (256GB), a gaming M.2, and a HDD for general purpose. I already have a Barracuda 4TB, but I am wondering what the best choices are for the Gaming M.2 and the boot M.2. I have looked at the KC3000 and thought it could be good for...

Hi, I just got a new ASUS laptop. Supposed to have two 1TB drives. Technically it does, but my storage is Intel Raid 0. I plan on upgrading my NVMe's to 2TB each in the future. If I'm going to lose my data to change from Intel RAID 0, I'd rather do it now before I install anything. I plan...

I was able to use the HDD previously and put some files in it but suddenly after a few days it won't work. It can be read on the PC but if you open it, it makes the PC lag. Same for the Defragment and Disk Management , it won't open unless you remove the external HDD. I tried this on 2 other...

I want to upgrade my PC but it wont POST after installingl an NVMe PCIe Gen 3 x4 256GB SSD. If i remove this SSD the PC boots fine. Can anybody help me ?

This is only my 3rd build and I’m not the best with navigating windows or software to begin with. Anyway, I built a new pc and only transferred my gpu and m.2 ssds over and didn’t wipe anything on the storage I just dropped it in and it booted up and the games ran fine for a bit probably 20...

I am using adobe after effect and am running out of room on hard drive. I would like to replace my current SSD from 500 GB to 2 TB. Adobe AE currently runs on my C: drive I want to keep it there. My Desktop Specs: Asus Motherboard Rog Maximus XI Hero (WI-FI) Rev 1 Processor: Intel Core...

Hi. Installed my pc M.2 WD black SN750 1TB ssd. My bios see it but when I go to drive management its not there. Tried to install windows 10 but it doesn't find my M.2 ssd I have Asus X99 Deluxe Motherboard. Tried almost every option but not help is there any advise left? Thank you for helping :)

I bought a new 500GB wd black NVME SSD which shows up in the bios as well as the device manager however it doesn't show up in disk management and I haven't found a way to enable the drive.

BACK STORY: So I tried to plug in an old HDD as an additional hard drive, with the one I’m using right now, that’s been sitting around for a few months to see if it still worked but I saw that when I booted my PC it asked me for a pin that I kept when I worked on it and of course I didn’t...

Having a weird error. Set up a new 2tb Samsung 980 Pro m.2 a couple of months ago and its been fine up until now. I started to install some games on it but it seems to be causing issues where ill start playing a game, the game will freeze/crash and when i go to try and open anything stored on...

Good morning everyone, I hope someone can help me, Boot drive has an awkward writing speed and I can't understand why. Some details: PC configuration: https://valid.x86.fr/7bb8c2 The problem occurs with both Win 10 and Win 11 The problem occurs even when changing the motherboard and the...

i have two SSDs (128GB NVMe M.2 + 128GB SATA SSD) and a 1TB HDD. each of them has one partition. my purpose is gaming and then using some programs like Photoshop CS6. where i should install Windows in term of gaming performance? i think if i install Windows as well as my important games on the...

Question is: Will it consider as basic pocket USB, or will the windows want to format the ssd every time i unplug or plug in ? Bcs i want it to use the 2.5 SSD as a USB basically, sometimes use sometimes not, wont be plugged all the time, this is the thingy...

I'm planning on purchasing the Samsung EVO 970 PLUS 500GB M.2 2280 NVMe drive, I tried googling but there are conflicting reports. Here's a picture of my laptops m.2 slot I'd really appreciate if you could help me identify whether it supports the Samsung EVO 970 PLUS 500GB M.2 NVME 2280 drive

I want to purchase 500 GB SSD for my laptop. I have 2 options which supports to my laptop are as: Is Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB PCIe NVMe M.2: https://www.amazon.in/Samsung-Internal-Solid-State-MZ-V7S500BW/dp/B07MFBLN7K Samsung 980 500GB M.2 SSD...

My M.2 nvme gen 3 Kingston A2000 500GB ssd (Boot Drive) is stated to have 2,200/2,000MB Read and write respectively, Although my read speeds met this threshold, my write speeds did not. my read speeds are fine 2226mbs but my write speeds are terrible ,351mb. Screenshot for all 3 results...

When I connect my WD Elements external HDD I can see the files it contains, I can click on the files and view them, but after around 1 minute, the drive's read-speed drops and eventually dies completely. I can quickly transfer files from it but I can't consistently use it anymore. Is it broken...

Hi, im using this motherboard and I have a kingston m.2 with two hard drives gigabyte b560m ds3h v2 Yesterday I switched my pc case and after plugging everything back I couldnt load into windows, turns out that my motherboard reset to factory settings and the boot order was changed. I...

So I have a friend who's laptop is ultra sluggish max ,basically takes awhile to boot and open up programs It's a HP OMEN from 2017 I believe since it has a i5 7300HQ ,as for gpu I'm not sure since either a gtx 900 series or 1050 and is 17 inch And asking her to point the model number to me is...

I have been using dropbox on my drive C. But now that I am saving 1.5TB of data on drive C, I can't sync more files freely. I want to move one big folder to drive D. So I was thinking, maybe I can use google drive on drive D. That was my plan. But when I installed Google Drive on my PC, a new...

Greetings all, Lately and maybe every 1-2 weeks, my 2 external drives letters assignment disappears and I have to go into Windows Disk Manag. to reassign them. While it's not such a big deal, it's annoying and make me wonder why it happens. This happens with 2 external drives, A WD Elements (2...

I have disabled and re-enabled the drive and restarted, etc multiple times. I downloaded Holoiso, a community-made steam deck OS, and flashed it with BelenaEtcher. I then put it on my PC and failed to get it to work after watching multiple videos on how to get it to work so I then decided to go...

I want to buy SSD (I need fast space now) but I have old Maximus VII Hero board. I will be making new modern build at end of 2022 when 4-series of GeForce will hit so I also want this SSD to "pass" to new build. I heard I can buy some sort of adapter and then buy modern SSD for PCIe to work...

updated on: 07/07/2022 I am using a brand new Seagate 8TB One touch with HUB (USB 3.0 and UCB C) with extremely slow write speeds I have observed extremely slow data access write speeds. I am importing and processing image files from 5 MB to about 30 MB. The speeds are very slow unlike my...