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the requirement to disable the HDD password is to secure erase the drive normally or enter the correct password to turn it off or if its a bitlocker hardware password then gets more complicated (using SED self encrypting drive then without the TPM chip and same laptop or backup Bitlocker key...

diskpart > list disk > select disk X (make sure its the right disk number) > clean all (again make sure its the correct disk before pressing enter as this does not warn before zeroing out the whole drive, unless its a system drive) monitor with smart as its wiping the drive (diskpart clean all...

have to treat SMR drives like extremely slow SSD, they do understand that Zero byte write can clear a Shingle if they get enough empty blocks for consolidation if you Zero fill a SMR drive it will effectively reset the drive once its been idle for some hours (never fill with random or 1s on a...

any SSD that isn't dramless kingston UV500 (i buy UV400/500 a lot) or crucial MX500 or any samsung EVO if your looking at SATA i would recommend NVME for boot drive (like 250-500GB) or just blow all your money on a 2TB NVME SSD and spit it as 150GB/1700GB+ NVME does not make games load faster...

open classic Power options and disable Fast startup (Zero point using it if your on a SSD,even on a HDD its a bad idea because drivers and system state is restored on bootup witch can result in an inconsistent system state becues last shutdown wasn't an actual shutdown more like a logged off sleep)

there is generally no diferance between a SATA and nvme SSD for game loading times (unless benchmarking) the IOPS of a Sata SSD is more than enough, CPU is the limit once you have at least a SATA SSD (this was before they optimized rust to not have 30k worth of small files loading) this...

synology and Qnap Read only cache should be fine they just fall back to the volume directly (doesn't even need to re-mount the volume), but qnap can't detect corruption in volume or ssd cache if using QTS OS synology can leverage btrfs and checksum if enabled on all share folders, so any read...

looks like the film has already been removed

512e is very normal ,from like vista windows and linux supports correct 4k boundly aliment automatically

B looks bad but its the same LBA that was causing the UNC (and it looks like they all happened at the same time as they was 10,000 hours ago) no pending or relocated events was logged and it look like it happened at Power up with this age of HDDs raid6/SHR2 is recommended if inside a synology...

windows 8 and onwards changed trim to a task if you can't optimize it nor can the schedule run correctly

https://help.corsair.com/hc/en-us/articles/360052822291-Ensuring-peak-performance-for-your-MP600-M-2-SSD do make sure fast startup is unticked and do a reboot so it's a Clean shutdown somthing might be installed that has taken over the optimize function (norton for example still does this)

optimize/defrag from windows 7 and onwards runs a Trim command to the ssd (it does not defrag)

if you not planning on having 2 disks get a 2TB SSD and when your setting up the ssd set it to 200GB for OS/base programs and whatever is left for second partition and point all your games/steam type clients to that (if you don't want to reload you can clone the OS but set it to 200GB size and...

now this might be a case of fast startup (Classic power options > "choose what the power buttons do" and untick fast startup) this will make a shutdown a actual shutdown (recommend the First thing you disable fast startup on any system as it can cause problems with programs that expect a reboot...