Questions tagged [samsung-ssd]
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Is there a negative impact on an SSD drive if I power cycle it every hour for 6 months?
We have a system that uses an SSD (4TB Samsung 860 Pro) that we power on for 10 minutes to write data to and then off every hour for 24/7 for about six months via a Linux system. We manually turn on the power to the drive and wait for the O/S to to…
Patratacus
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Adaptor from NVMe M.2 SSD to SATA?
I am trying to upgrade the storage:
The existing storage is a 256GB SSD, model Samsung PM871b M.2 2280, installed on an adaptor to SATA, and I guess it is Next Gen Form Factor.
I purchased a 1TB SSD in NVMe M.2, model Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus NVMe…
James
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Where am I supposed to plug in this PCIe SSD?
Knowing I had a spare PCIe slot, I purchased this SSD
4TB Samsung 990 EVO
SAMSUNG 990 EVO Plus SSD 2TB, PCIe Gen 4x4, Gen 5x2 M.2 2280, Speeds Up-to 7,250 MB/s, Upgrade Storage for PC/Laptops, HMB Technology and Intelligent Turbowrite 2.0,…
Rohit Gupta
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Linux tools don't work with Samsung PSSD T7
Samsung Portable SSD T7 doesn't seem to work well with Linux tools. The drive is recognized by the OS and basic functions work fine.
However, hdparm won't report anything about the drive:
SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a…
yakom
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Enable bitlocker hardware encryption without reinstalling Windows 10 pro
Is it possible to enable Bitlocker hardware encryption (on a Samsung pro SSD) without having to re-install Windows 10 pro?
A similar question was asked here but was too vague and closed.
user986363
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Should I worry about high ssd temperature?
I am using a new ssd and I installed CrystalDiskInfo, it shows good as health status but the temperature is very high it is 95 degree C. Should I worry about that and how can I solve this problem?
Hadi Tahini
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SSD hardware encryption TCG/OPAL - desktop motherboard in 2024
I have Samsung 980 PRO SSD which is advertised to support full drive encryption options like:
AES 256-bit Encryption (Class 0), TCG/Opal,IEEE1667 (Encrypted drive)
It's not a single case, this days a lot of SSD manufacturers are advertising similar…
Milos
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Unable to verify Samsung 870 EVO SSD 500GB
I have purchased a brand new Samsung 870 EVO SSD 500GB from local vendor in my city. From the over all looks and performance of the SSD it is working great. But Samsung Magician is unable to verify if the SSD is original or a fake.
I am attaching…
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300GB of phantom data on my Samsung 970 EVO M.2 and no option to format: Is there anything else I can do?
The problem:
So something really weird is going on with my Samsung 970 EVO M.2 SSD. Opening the drive and ensuring hidden files are shown, it's empty:
but looking in the properties panel it's also not:
So time to try all tools available to figure…
openwindows
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Samsung Magician Not Detecting EVO 870 Plugged in from SATA to USB
I bought a 1TB Samsung EVO 870 SSD on November 2022. I'm finally getting around to swapping it with my 500GB EVO 850 since I need more space anyways. I am trying to do data migration from my 500GB to my 1TBSSD. I downloaded the latest version of…
Wolf Zwiener
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How to remove forced disk read only mode? (failure might be imminent msg on boot)
Woke my PC up from sleep and got blue screen. On reboot it said that my boot disk's failure is imminent and didn't let me chose it as a boot disk even when I tried to force it through bios. I hooked up an old HDD that had an OS and upon further…
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Cannot boot from Samsung SSD 950 EVO after Samsung Magician's Data Migration finished
There's this Samsung Magician software that Samsung recommends to use with its Samsung SSD 950 EVO drives and they provide this feature - Data Migration. Idea is that it can take a system drive with Windows OS on it and clone it to the new drive. I…
jayarjo
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NVMe drive is only using 1x PCIe lanes when 4x are available
I have a HP ENVY Desktop - 795-0017na which I have upgraded with a Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB drive, using a Silverstone ECM22 adapater to fit it into a PCIe x4 slot on the motherboard. The motherboard is a HP Berks (HP 844C).
The drive is…
Samuel Jack
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How to properly use Samsung Magician on macOS in Parallels Desktop? How can I flash Samsung firmware on a MacBook Pro?
I have a 2019 MacBook Pro running macOS Catalina. I have a Samsung 840 EVO 750GB SSD that used to be the internal drive of a different MacBook Pro before its logic board died. I've repurposed this 840 SSD as an external drive using the StarTech…
Nick Williams
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Does a small partition with lot of re-writes on a small or large SDD make it wear out quickly?
From my understanding, partitions are allocated based on the offsets. So it's location on drive is fixed.
So, Over an SSD, Does small partitions with lot of re-writes (say - swap partition on linux) cause a week point on the drive and let it wear…
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