System Drive

Hello This is regarding two sometimes separate, and sometimes combined topics… Formatting drives in general, and using Macrium to do stuff. When I format either: - a new System drive, or - a new Storage/General Use drive, or - a new external drive Do I need to choose a specific type of...

Trying to migrate my system drive from my old (2TB) HDD to my new (1TB) SSD. I've reduced the HDD's used storage to 600 something GB, which means I should have room to clone all partitions to my SSD, but for some reason, the SSD already has a small partition. What is this partition, and do I...

I'm looking to purchase a 1TB SSD to replace my old and slow 2TB HDD as my system drive. Problem is, because it's only 1TB, I need to reduce my current hard drive's used storage (currently around 1.7TB) to 1TB in order to copy the drive. In order to do this quick and easy, I figured I'd simply...

I've noticed my pc has been slowing down lately and decided to run a benchmark only to find that my system drive has been performing extremely poorly. It says to plug it into a SATA 3.0 port, but I'm not sure if I can do this since it's an m.2. Is there any way I can fix its performance without...

First I would like to say that this website and forums are awesome. You all have so much knowledge that you are willing to share. With your help I was able build a computer while blowing right past my budget by thousands.... I had a old HP PC and was going back to school. I already hated to even...

I want to buy an r9 290x sapphire tri-x OC edition graphics card, but I don't know what PSU I need. In my desktop at the moment I have: CPU: i5-4570 GPU: HD Radeon 7850 PSU: 450w (Corsair vs450) I think my current set up uses around 430w Thanks.