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    Does it matter what I set "allocation unit size" to when formatting an SSD?

    My SSD is already formatted and has the default allocation unit size of 4kb. Will this option affect my SSD's lifespan in any way? I heard from someone that having the allocation size different from the SSD's actual block size will decrease it's lifespan by increasing it's amount of writes...
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    Is my SSD bad?

    I purchased a Mushkin 1tb SSD 2 weeks ago. Everything seemed to be running fine until i got windows 10 error 0xc000000e. I went into the bios and sata port 0 shows nothing. The other 2 HDDs are present. If i put in the recovery cd and run startup repair it tells me it could not fix the problem...
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    Hard bricked Xiaomi 1S HELP!

    My friend's Xaiomi Redmi 1S got Hard Bricked. It doesn't power on nor responds to vol dwn + power btn for fastboot mode. Plz help to get this phone unbricked! service center isnt trustworthy in my area/