ssd

Hi all, Late summer last year I put a new rig together using an Asus Z270F (i7 7700K). Storage for the system is currently configured with: 2x Samsung NVMe 960 EVO's (one in each M.2 slot on the motherboard) 4x Samsung 850 Pro 2.5" SSD (using 4 of the available 6 SATA ports on the...

With a SATA SSD you can unplug it from one PC and plug it into another. Is the same possible with M.2 drives?

Hi there Dropped our prices on the 900P for the promotional period: Intel Optane 900P 280GB PCI-e NVMe 3.0 x4 Solid State Drive @ £349.99 inc VAT SSDPED1D280GASX, 280GB Intel 900P, PCIe 3.0 (x4) NVMe SSD, 3D XPoint, Read 2500MB/s, Write 2000MB/s, 550k/500k IOPS, 5yr Warranty. Only...

I've been given a PCI Express SSD to recover some data from, but my motherboard doesn't have a slot for it. Are USB adapters available which will allow one of these to be connected via a USB 3/3 socket?

Hi, Currently on a 4.5ghz 2600k, 32gb ram, gtx980 and a sata SSD. I'm starting to notice my cpu is limiting me highly, I often download youtube vids and re-coding them takes ages, work with encoding and editing dashcam video's also could be faster. Also I like keeping everything running, and...

Hi there Intel's new consumer Enterprise class SSD's are due today, they offer Enterprise reliability, durability and performance with incredible write and IOPS performance and backed by a 5yr warranty: Intel Optane 900P 280GB PCI-e NVMe 3.0 x4 Solid State Drive @ £379.99 inc VAT...

This information may be of use to to any Samsung EVO SSD owners out there running windows 10. I just spent all weekend with my PC in bits stress testing components trying to work out which one was causing windows to lock out every startup after 10-20 minutes. After a lot of head banging turns...

I need SSD with longest battery life. Liteon CV1-8B512: Idle 2mW, Typ 0.25 w (no real life test) Samsung 960 Pro: Idle 40mW, Typ 5.1 w 317 min Samsung SM961: Idle 25 mW, Typ 5.9 w 358 min Liteon has lower power consumption but samsung use 3D V-Hand tech which increases battery life. So...

Hi all, Other than loading times, is there any other benefit to having a SSD for gaming compared to having a mechanical? Thanks :)

Hey Folks so Basically using a P5Q-E Board atm with 2 1TB Drives first one is a 8 Year old Samsung Spinpoint F1 which has 2 Partitions on it one with OS/Programs other is Storage then have a WD Blue 1tb Which i purchased a few months ago will be keeping this it just has a System image/Back-up on...

Both are selling at the same price right now in my local PC store. The HyperX Fury basically has better specs than UV400 especially the TBW (354TB vs 50TB), except having lower read speeds in average. However, the UV400 uses Marvell controller while the Fury uses Sandforce, and I've seen tests...

My PC freezes suddenly and I have to switch off the socket. On the next reboot, I've received the post message "ASUS Anti-Surge was triggered to protect system from unstable power supply unit". I guess a power surge just happened in my house. The problem is, my OS wouldn't load. It stuck at the...

I am in progress of building my new PC. At this moment it looks like this: My monitor - Acer GN246HL I am still thinking about SSD and the case. I don't really need more then ~120gb when it comes to the SSD, although if anyone can commend me any bigger one at a good price, then I will surely...

I need some help to transfer two ssd's onto one larger ssd due to space restrictions When I first got my machine it had one 110GB ssd and a 1 TB HHD for general storage. The ssd just to run my windows system files and additional software but it got full when I installed Adobe master...

Playing Rising Storm 2 earlier and after my last round put the computer into sleep. Around a hour later I went to resume and got a error message regarding no operating system could be found. Went into bios and no ssd detected. Hooked the drive up with the power and sata cable which my HDD uses...

I purchased an ASRock Z270 Pro4 a while back. This has three M.2 Slots. In the manual, one (Key E type) is dedicated for Wifi. The other two are indicated to be for SSDs. I've now gotten a hold of an intel tri-band 12860 WiGig adapter which has M.2 form factor, but with Key A. This doesn't fit...

Hello, I'm planning to buy one of those laptops (XPS 13 9360 256GB and X1 Carbon 2017 256GB) and I've found out, that the performance of SSDs is very different on these devices: Dell: Sequential Read: 1233 MB/s Sequential Write: 732.6 MB/s 512K Read: 1036 MB/s 512K Write: 439.9 MB/s 4K Read...

Hi all, I'm a newbie to the forum so be gentle. I've a new MSI GT73VR 6RE on the way from OCUK. As it has a SSD (2No. 256GB Raid 0) and a 1TB HDD, where is the best place to install games to get maximum performance? I notice some of the latest games are 50GB so wondering if the HDD is the smart...

Hi guys, Think I have a problem with one of my SSDs and just wondering if there was a way for me to test if it's dying or something else causing the issue? Basically I have a FreeNAS box set up in the living room that has a 60 GB SSD (Crucial M4) as its main drive and then some 3TB mechanical...

I am looking on grabbing an SSD for my current new build, the hard drive I have now is quite old and is starting to sound really loud and seems to be slowing down my boot up times and sometimes struggles to open files. Could anybody recommend me the best, cheap SSD? Will be using for OS...