solid state drive

Microsoft’s latest public update on the mid‑August patch storm is straightforward: after investigation, the company says the August 2025 cumulative rollup did not cause a widespread failure mode that “breaks” SSDs, but the episode still exposes fragile cross‑stack dependencies and persistent...

I've been successfully using WSE2016 since 2023 only for personal use to back up several PCs. A couple of months ago it failed, possibly the result of multiple power outages here in Florida. After trying to recover I gave up and did a new install using the same two 1TM SSDs as before...

In a perplexing turn of events for PC users and enthusiasts, Windows 11 version 24H2 updates continue to fail on systems equipped with Western Digital’s widely lauded SN770 NVMe solid-state drives, despite the fact that a corrective firmware update has been available for over eight months. While...

Here’s a concise summary of the situation, based on your Neowin article and the latest available info: What’s Happening? Windows 11 version 24H2 is still actively being blocked on some systems with certain Western Digital (WD) and SanDisk NVMe SSDs (notably the WD_BLACK SN770 and similar...

In today’s era of business digitization, robust cloud data storage solutions are more essential than ever. Companies of all scales—from nimble startups to sprawling enterprises—depend on swift, secure, and resilient storage infrastructure to underpin operations, power analytic engines, and...

Below is an in-depth guide that walks you through a series of actionable steps and expert tips to extend your SSD’s lifespan on a Windows 11 system. With SSDs becoming the go-to solution for speed and performance, it’s important to balance their inherent benefits with practical maintenance to...

I have an external usb connected solid state drive that I use for backing up my computer hard drive. However, when ever I insert a usb stick I get the error message "There is a problem with the external drive. click here to fix it". At first I dutifully checked the drive for errors the first...

If I have a laptop that is Windows 10 and swap out the HD with my current solid state HD that has Windows 7, will it work and everything be the same as my current laptop? A friend of mine says I might have driver conflicts or it might work without a problem.

I'm hoping someone can help me. I have a Dell XPS L501X laptop that freezes on start up if plugged in but NOT when running on the battery. My husband ran a bunch of tests, discovered hard drive was failing. Bought a new SATA solid state hard drive and bought a new windows 7 install and...

I converted from Windows 7 Home to windows10. When I go to Disk Defragmenter it tells me I can't optimize because my drives are solid state. My Drives are Hitachi SATA. How can I make Windows 10 redetect my Hard Drives?

I just stated to get my Toshiba back to Out of the Box condition. Well, since I changed out my hard drive to a Solid State one, with just the first disk of three, it has taken me 3 hours and 40 minutes to get the Hard drive deleted 50%. So much for SS Drives being in a hurry. I am on my...

Back to running Windows-7-pro. Still more solid than 8.1 or beta-10. I have 16-gigs of ram on the board. Windows-7 sees it, but I often wondered if it actually uses it. I had the pagefile at 12-gigs. So I did a test. I moved 38-gigs from one sata drive to another sata drive. The desktop...

Storage. It's not a sexy topic. But everyone uses it in some way or another. You have iPhones, you have computers. Everyone knows how important a person's data is. But it doesn't just "disappear." Or does it? New research suggests that newer solid-state hard drives, which are faster and offer...

I purchased a used E machine ER1402-05 and it had a 160 GB hard drive so i bought a upgrade 1 TB hybrid solid state drive and installed it i then installed the windows 7 home premium OS on it and used the original product key that was on the side of the mini desktop but it is not accepting it...

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Okay, so, I have issues dealing with the fact that I have windows 7 installed on a 32 gig Solid State, meaning that I perpetually don't have enough space for anything, but that's not my problem, it just might be related to my problem. My problem is that I turned off my computer, and it...

"In this video, I will show you how to make your laptop USB3 compatible, even if your laptop did not come with USB3 ports. The key to making this change is simply to use an express card in order to benefit from the new speed of USB3. The throughput and bandwidth capabilities of USB3 far exceed...

First of al, hello to everyone!! I jut finished building a custom pc and am having BSOD's happening. The main one I'm getting is the PFN_LIST_CORRUPT and the other is MEMORY_MANAGMENT. The PFN occurs more frequently then the other one does though. There's no one or two things that I'm doing at...

Hello I'm new to these forums. What happened to my computer is, I kept getting the BSOD, I went into safe mode, removed the most recent programs I had installed, and it stopped happening. I then proceeded to plug in my external hard drive. It was not recognizing it for some reason, so I went to...

Using Windows 7, my "C" drive is a small solid state drive and all I wish to have on it is my Win 7 operating system. My "D" drive is mechanical and 500 Gig so I would like to have as much as possible on that drive. How do I move my Favorites folder to my "D" drive and have it always...