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Looking around a bit.. there seems to be a decent spate of deals in the 2TB range (anything but top of the range looks to be into £100), just starting into 4. With the dram developments (think it was WD had doubled the capacity on a single chip), is there a chance we're back on the edge of a...

Hi I have a 4 year old work PC (Windows 10, Intel i5 9600K, ASUS Prime Z370-P II Motherboard & 32GB 3200MHz Corsair DDR4 RAM, Gigabyte Aorus GeForce GTX 1660 OC 6G) which I just replaced the Samsung 250GB SSD drive with a new Samsung 870QVO 1TB one because it was out of space. I did using...

Hi, Just done my 1st build and have purchased a 2nd ssd (2TB P44 Pro Series M2). My motherboard (Asus rog strix b650e-f) comes with heatsinks reinstalled with a thermal pad fitted. My question is probably a stupid one.... The ssd has a slip of paper stuck over the top of the ssd chips.... Does...

Explaining Computers has a comprehensive video on storage media life expectancy. Lots of useful links below the video too.

I've just purchased this laptop for video editing. I work from an external SSD which I use on my PC and other laptops. When I tried to open and run my video files the read speed of the USB-C is too slow to read the video files. I ran a speed check on CrystalDiskMark and the read speed was max...

Hello, I am seeking help on an issue that's really doing my head in! I just bought a 2TB m.2 SSD P3 Plus from Crucial. The item is now in an external caddy and connected to the pc via a short USB C to A connector cable. The issue is the fact that I cannot get disk management to format and then...

Hello! I am looking for an SSD drive for Windows and games. I looked at the following three products: Kingston KC3000 2TB - €153 Samsung 990 PRO 2TB M.2 - €190 Western Digital SN850X 2TB - €183 Which of these do you think is the best choice? I have another question. Do you think a Kingston...

Hello, I installed some W10 updates yesterday and today after the bios screen, windows didn't load, just black screen. Well, story time, they give me this old Pc at work (really old) to do one or two office things, it has W7 on a hard drive so everything is very very slow, I also use this Pc for...

Happy Weekend All! I currently run on a 500GB SSD with a 1TB HDD. I think (but am not sure) I am doing the right thing by having my games installed on the SSD rather than the HDD. The issue now (the system is from 2018) is that many of the games I play are >100GB and as such I can't have many...

Good Morning, So I have got myself some new RAM and a 2T NvmE M.2 SSD. I understand how to install everything and how to clone my operating system SSD to the new NvmE but once it is cloned I have two questions. 1. How do I now get my laptop to look at the new NvmE SSD for operating system so...

Hi all, I've never come across this before on other NVMEs, and its the first Firecuda 530 drive Ive got here. Searching on google didnt bring up good enough images to compare, so I hope someone with a drive can comment. I seem to have some flux or conformal coating locally on the drive as per...

Hi, I've been having some hard time with my old m.2 SSD in a laptop and I'm mainly looking to recover data from it. However, I've got some weird behaviour I can't quite explain myself so hope someone can help. 1. Currently have a boot issue with the 'critical process died' BSOD and all other...

Hi there! I have both a smaller (500MB) SSD and larger (2TB) HDD and am wondering whether I should change over the HDD to SSD to improve general PC/gaming performance. Is this even possible? I've read about cloning the drive. Specs (let me know if I should include other info in this and I...

Evening All! I would like to ask for some help relating to a cloning issue, which is doing my head in! But first, some short background: I have a 12-year old Dell OptiPlex 990 SFF, purchased in 2011. Apart from a couple of years spent in storage, the machine has been left running literally 24/7...

Hi guys, Have just built an upgraded PC with this bundle and i7-12700k (OC'd from OC). 3 issues: 1) One of AIO radiator Fans is flickering - that's ok, 2) New PSU Is buzzing - power seems fine though However 3) I cannot boot from my drives. Bios detects all drives, is fine with the cpu, I'm...

Hi all, I currently have a media drive (8TB WD Gold) which I write DVDs / blu rays to (rarely - every 6 months I'd say). I hate that it is a spinning drive. I'm contemplating upgrading it to an SSD. Either a Samsung 8TB 870 QVO or the Kingston DC450R TLC. As I do not write to it often, does...

Hello. My system now running on Samsung 970 evo 250gb M2 ssd. New Corsair MP700 running PCI-E 5.0 and has speed almost 3 times faster https://ssdrive.net/corsair-mp700-1-tb I want to upgrade my storage to 2 tb, but now I can buy only Samsung 970 evo (because of price). Is it worst to wait PCI-e...

Reading the manual for the ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-E am I right in thinking that if I want to run 3 m2 drives without dropping down to x8 on the PCIe 5.0 I would need to run them in M2_1, M2_2 & M2_4? I'm a bit confused as the manual states if you use M2_3 the PCIe5_1 drops down to x8 and the _2...

Hello everyone I am an owner of an Asrock B450 Pro4 motherboard. It's got two M2 slots, only one of them is NVME as I am aware. I use one Kingston NVME SSD for system only. I have one sata HDD and SSD. I would like to buy a 1TB NVME ssd for games only. Is it possible to connect it to my...

I have an asus 570 mobo, I just got a secone m.2 hdd. the first one i had no issues with, the second shows up in the bios and device manager but not in disk management. I cant figure out hoe to get it to show up. I have googled it and tried several things to no results