#ssd
help!! trying to do a fresh install of Windows on my laptops replacement SSD, and teh installer says there are no drives: it asks me to load a driver, but I dont know which one. the drive shows in teh BIOS, sooo its not completely dead. what am I missing??…
ok weird one added a new NVMe SSD to my PC for extra games storage. its nowhere to be seen in Device Manager: Also, one of my SATA drives disappeared at the same time. That feels connected but i cant figure out how. Id really like both drives to work at the…
Every time I boot, the PC is unusable for ages. Clicking the Start menu takes seconds, apps hang with "Not responding", and Task Manager shows this: CPU and memory are fine. It's the disk pinned at 100%. I'm genuinely close to throwing it out the window.
ok weird one just added a secnod SSD cuz my system drive is almost full, mostly from games... my internet is slow, sooo redownloading a few hundred gigabytes is not smth I wanna do. is it safe to just cut and paste the…
long time lurker first post lol confession: I chose teh renewed 512GB NVMe to save money for a better GPU. after two weeks I ran a SMART check cuz a friend told me to. The Wear Leveling Count line is yellow. The seller says refurbished drives are fully…
hmmmm ok trying to do a fresh install of Windows on my PCIe 4.0 SSD, and the installer says there are no drives: it asks me to load a driver, but idk which one, the drive shows in teh BIOS, sooo its not completely dead. what am I missing? id rather not spend…
Confession: I chose the renewed 512GB NVMe to save money for a better GPU. After a month I ran a SMART check because a friend told me to. The Percentage Used line is yellow. The seller says refurbished drives are fully tested. I am now wondering what exactly…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts added a M.2 SATA SSD to my PC for extra games storage 🤷 its nowhere to be seen in Disk Management: Also, one of my SATA drives disappeared at the same time. That feels connected but i cant figure out how. Id realy like…
I got clever and bought a refurbished 1TB NVMe instead of a new one. Felt great for two weeks. Then I installed a health tool out of curiosity and it greeted me with this. The Available Spare value is flagged and the status says Caution instead of Good.…
long time lurker first post lol confession: I chose the marketplace 1TB SATA SSD to save money for a betetr GPU. After two weeks I ran a SMART check cuz a friend told me to. the Wear Leveling Count line is yellow. the seller says refurbished drives are fully…
im literally losing my mind here leanred something cool today: SSDs count how much data has been written to them over their lifetime 😅 in teh SMART data theres "Total Host Writes" or "Data Units Written" for NVMe. compare it to the TBW rating in the spec…
Confession: I chose the open box 2TB NVMe to save money for a better GPU. After ten days I ran a SMART check because a friend told me to. The Media and Data Integrity Errors line is yellow. The seller says refurbished drives are fully tested. I am now…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts confession: I chose the used 2TB SATA SSD to save money for a better GPU. After a month I ran a SMART check because a friend told me to. the Percentage Used line is yellow. the seller says refurbished drives are fully…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts added a new NVMe SSD to my PC for extra games storage. its nowhere to be seen in Device Manager: Also, one of my SATA drvies disappeared at the same time 🔥 That feels connected but i cant figure out how. Id really like…
hmmmm ok i just installed a second M.2 drive and it doesn't appear in File Explorer: its seated in teh M.2 slot and screwed down. the motherboard manual says teh slot supports it lmao im starting to think the drive is defective. before i send it back, what…
guys pls help my dad always said buy cheap, buy twice 👍 I did not listen. Just three weeks after buying a marketplace 1TB SATA SSD, my health tool shows a warning. I have backups of teh important stuff, mostly 🤦 what I need to know is how fast this kind of…
i got clever and bouhgt a marketplace 1TB SATA SSD insetad of a new one xD felt great for a month... then i installed a health tool out of curiosity and it greeted me with this. the Media and Data Integrity Errors value is flagged and the status says Caution…
trying to do a fresh insatll of Windows on my second M.2 drive, and teh installer says there are no drives: It asks me to load a driver, but I don't know which one. The drive shows in the BIOS, so it's not completely dead. What am I missing? lol I'd rather…
long time lurker first post lol after the Samsung SM 332B Firmware T406 update, my work PC became painfully slow. opening teh Start menu takes ages, and apps freeze for seconds at a time. task Manager shows this: the NVMe SSD sits at 100% active time, with…
so annoyed rn after the Samsung 840 EVO SSD Firmware EXT0DB6Q update, my home built PC became painfully slow. Opening the Start menu takes ages, and apps freeze for seconds at a time. Task Manager shows this: The second NVMe drive sits at 100% active time,…
guys pls help my laptop is crawling. task Manager shows teh SATA SSD at 100% with almost no data moving... it started after a storage driver update from Samsung. ive disabled search indexing and some startup apps, but no cahnge... how can i tell whether its…
after the Samsung SH M522C Firmware TI01 update, my work PC became painfully slow :D opening the Start menu takes ages, and apps freeze for seconds at a time :/ task Manager shows this: The external SSD sits at 100% active time, with barely any read or write…
im literally losing my mind here after the Samsung SM 352F Firmware T906 update, my home built PC became painfully slow. Opening the Start menu takes ages, and apps freeze for seconds at a time. Task Manager shows this: The external SSD sits at 100% active…
ok weird one after the Samsung SH W162C Firmware TI00 update, my home built PC became painfully slow. Opening the Start menu takes ages, and apps freeze for seconds at a time. Task Manager shows this: the NVMe SSD sits at 100% active time, with barely any…
help!! after the Samsung SN B043A Firmware SB00 update, my home built PC became painfully slow, opening teh Start menu takes ages, and apps freeze for seconds at a time, task Manager shows this: The NVMe SSD sits at 100% active time, with barely any read or…
