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Let's say I have a 10 GB SSD and filled it with 1 GB of data. As I understand it that 1 GB of data gets moved around the drive by the controller as part of its wear levelling mechanism. Which means the 1 GB data is copied elsewhere on the drive and then the original is deleted. My question is...

I look at it this way. On a fresh Windows install, you're already overprovisioning roughly 100 GB dynamically and that gets smaller as you fill up the drive. Whatever free space you have is the overprovisioning so I don't even bother with it.

Since erasing data is what wears out SSD and the controller also does its wear-levelling by rewriting and erasing data, is it better I don't erase my data even though I don't need it anymore?

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If you're that serious with gaming then go ethernet and wired keyboard and mouse. You'll get more consistent performance. With wireless it's constantly fluctuating depending on your air traffic. If you run a microwave for popcorn it will slow your connection speed down for example. Also, get...

My older Netgear R6700 has three antennas and says it does simultaneous dual band 3x3 Tx/Rx. So it can transmit or receive three signals at once. Isn't that essentially what MU-MIMO is doing? Is the industry creating new terms as a marketing hype for something that had already existed for...

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Basically, any space you are not currently using is used as overprovisioning without you explicitly telling the drive use this much space for overprovisioning. So if you have a 500 GB drive and you are only using 30 GB then the 470 GB will be used for overprovisioning dynamically but you can...

I still use Windows 7 and have never been hacked. China and Russia haxors have switched their attention to Windows 10 and leaving me alone in peace

I disabled the wake timers in the advanced power settings and I found my computer this morning woke up and did its maintenance dance. So now I also disabled the Allow this device to wake the computer for my Network adapter. Hopefully, that puts it to bed for good.

I feel like Windows 10 is still in Beta when you look at the mish-mash of the new user interface and the old user interface. Microsoft still hasn't fully migrated everything. When you look at the Event Viewer you see a ton of Error messages that appear benign to the user. I think Microsoft...

With Startup Boost turned on in Settings I noticed my CPU usage is hitting 40% and my Ethernet is showing there's constant internet traffic even when I'm not doing anything. With Continue Running background Apps when Edge is closed turned on in Settings the usages are even more pronounced...

I just read an article from 2017 about Windows Fast Startup and dual boot can cause corruption. Windows 10 has Fast Startup enabled by default. The article said accessing or modifying a drive from a dual boot setup that has Fast Startup enabled may corrupt it. I don't know how accurate the...

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The only difference between a Quadro and equivalent Geforce is driver tech support is more proactive with Quadro since it's tailored for professional use and you pay for that service. Performance wise they are the same.

the SSD goes back to its Frozen state after a reboot.

I'm heavily leaning to a Windows 10 bug regarding how it deals with multiple drives having their own boot files in combination with my particular hardware. I tried the experiment on a different computer this time. One SSD on port 1 and a HDD on port 2. The HDD had Windows 10 on it and when I...

Why don't you do a Secure Erase on it and reinstall the OS. That should reset the drive. Perhaps there's a rogue garbage collection happening. Also make sure Windows 10 is updated to version 20H2.

No it's nothing to do with dying. It's apparently a protection mechanism that prevents a hacker from taking control of the SSD by locking or freezing any modification to it.

I'm reading a lot of contradicting info on Secure Erase. Does it truly delete data so it's unrecoverable even with the use of a Recovery software? I tried Samsung's Secure Erase yesterday and it completed the process in one second or less. I thought that was suspiciously fast. Zeroing out a...

If I delete a file and immediately run the TRIM command and wait a few minutes. Is the file effectively deleted by the SSD controller and is gone for good?

So I was going to secure erase my Samsung SSD using their software. In the process it said the drive was in a Frozen state. It instructed me to unplug the power to the drive for a few second and plug back in in order to proceed. I got through it fine. Now how do I put the drive back in its...

I have four other HDD with different version of Windows. I regularly swap drives depending on what old software I want to run. I like to have each drive have their own boot files so I don't make a mistake of removing a boot drive and then rendering the computer unbootable. My concern now is...

OK, after installing Windows 10 eight times last night I am no where close to coming up with a definite cause of the problem and I'm leaning more towards a SSD incompatibility with my old Asus M4A88TD-M/USB3 motherboard. Once again I'm installing Windows 10 with only one drive attached at a...

Typo fixed. I've reinstalled Windows 10 on SSD 2 three times with almost similar catastrophic results. SSD 2 does show in Disk Management and shows only as Primary Partition and Active. The capacity is 465 GB but the free space is only 441 GB and the drive appears empty. Clearly the missing...

it's not empty

I have Windows 10 installed on SSD(1) which is connected to sata port 1. I got a new SSD(2) and connected it to sata port 3. I disconnect SSD 1 from port 1 before installing Windows 10 on SSD 2. I got Windows all setup on SSD 2 and rebooted several times to make sure everything is fine. I...

I don't suspect anything wrong with my new drives. Benchmarks are good. Temperatures are good. It's just the discrepancy in that stat from two seemingly identical drives and Crucials explanation.

AMD and a Samsung tech support begs to differ

I'm using Crucial's Storage Executive software to read SMART so it's showing user readable data.