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Is there a negative impact on an SSD drive if I power cycle it every hour for 6 months?

We have a system that uses an SSD (4TB Samsung 860 Pro) that we power on for 10 minutes to write data to and then off every hour for 24/7 for about six months via a Linux system. We manually turn on the power to the drive and wait for the O/S to to…
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Adaptor from NVMe M.2 SSD to SATA?

I am trying to upgrade the storage: The existing storage is a 256GB SSD, model Samsung PM871b M.2 2280, installed on an adaptor to SATA, and I guess it is Next Gen Form Factor. I purchased a 1TB SSD in NVMe M.2, model Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus NVMe…
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Linux tools don't work with Samsung PSSD T7

Samsung Portable SSD T7 doesn't seem to work well with Linux tools. The drive is recognized by the OS and basic functions work fine. However, hdparm won't report anything about the drive: SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a…
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How to remove forced disk read only mode? (failure might be imminent msg on boot)

Woke my PC up from sleep and got blue screen. On reboot it said that my boot disk's failure is imminent and didn't let me chose it as a boot disk even when I tried to force it through bios. I hooked up an old HDD that had an OS and upon further…
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Unable to verify Samsung 870 EVO SSD 500GB

I have purchased a brand new Samsung 870 EVO SSD 500GB from local vendor in my city. From the over all looks and performance of the SSD it is working great. But Samsung Magician is unable to verify if the SSD is original or a fake. I am attaching…
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NVMe drive is only using 1x PCIe lanes when 4x are available

I have a HP ENVY Desktop - 795-0017na which I have upgraded with a Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB drive, using a Silverstone ECM22 adapater to fit it into a PCIe x4 slot on the motherboard. The motherboard is a HP Berks (HP 844C). The drive is…
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Enable bitlocker hardware encryption without reinstalling Windows 10 pro

Is it possible to enable Bitlocker hardware encryption (on a Samsung pro SSD) without having to re-install Windows 10 pro? A similar question was asked here but was too vague and closed.
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How to properly use Samsung Magician on macOS in Parallels Desktop? How can I flash Samsung firmware on a MacBook Pro?

I have a 2019 MacBook Pro running macOS Catalina. I have a Samsung 840 EVO 750GB SSD that used to be the internal drive of a different MacBook Pro before its logic board died. I've repurposed this 840 SSD as an external drive using the StarTech…
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Should I worry about high ssd temperature?

I am using a new ssd and I installed CrystalDiskInfo, it shows good as health status but the temperature is very high it is 95 degree C. Should I worry about that and how can I solve this problem?
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300GB of phantom data on my Samsung 970 EVO M.2 and no option to format: Is there anything else I can do?

The problem: So something really weird is going on with my Samsung 970 EVO M.2 SSD. Opening the drive and ensuring hidden files are shown, it's empty: but looking in the properties panel it's also not: So time to try all tools available to figure…
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Does a small partition with lot of re-writes on a small or large SDD make it wear out quickly?

From my understanding, partitions are allocated based on the offsets. So it's location on drive is fixed. So, Over an SSD, Does small partitions with lot of re-writes (say - swap partition on linux) cause a week point on the drive and let it wear…
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SSD stopped booting after chkdsk

I have a 3 month old Samsung 980 Pro 2TB SSD installed in my MicroCenter PowerSpec G419 from years ago. It was working nicely for those 3 months - I had used Samsung Magician to migrate from my old SSD to the new SSD, then disabled the old SSD…
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Linux, SSD, TRIM - Not working? (hdparm, Samsung)

MY SSD is working but TRIM may not be. I'm running Fedora 36 with BTRFS. I installed a Samsung SSD 980 PRO 2TB SSD firmware version 5B2QGXA7 as a secondary drive that does not auto mount, as intended. I have the drive set as LUKS Encrypted.…
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Cannot boot from Samsung SSD 950 EVO after Samsung Magician's Data Migration finished

There's this Samsung Magician software that Samsung recommends to use with its Samsung SSD 950 EVO drives and they provide this feature - Data Migration. Idea is that it can take a system drive with Windows OS on it and clone it to the new drive. I…
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SSD Drive High active time, sluggish launch of programs, right click file slow

I noticed that my Samsung SSD 850 EVO started getting sluggish when I launch any of my programs. When I check the disk usage I constantly get spikes and my active time is hovering in the 80% range even though I am not running anything in the…
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