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SSD SUPPORT IS OFF-TOPIC. General HDD/SSD support may be asked on Super User (https://superuser.com). A solid-state drive (SSD) is a flash disk similar to a thumb drive, but much faster and with a hard-disk interface, typically SATA.

A solid-state drive is a storage medium based on high-performance flash memory. Most SSD have the same logical interfaces as hard disks (e.g. SATA ). SSDs can be distinguished from HDDs by not having any moving mechanical components.

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How to send scsi write commands to a SSD in a Kernel Module

I try to write as fast as possible on a SSD. It's very important to have synchronous writes, because we need to know if the data is power failures safe written. I thought about sending scsi commands on my own, to avoid most of the Linux Kernel…
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If I perform a write on an SSD that only changes 0s to 1s, can I rely on the drive not to erase the entire block before writing?

It is my understanding that it is the erases that wear out SSDs, not the writes themselves. Therefore, optimizing away the need for erases would be hugely beneficial from the point of view of drive manufacturers. Can I take it as a given that they…
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Unable to Select Boot Drive in BIOS After Installing Windows 11 on Multiple SSDs

Basically I have a version of Windows 11 that I have been using on a Sata SSD, yesterday I got a new m.2 SSD that I mounted on the motherboard but did not detach the Sata SSD. I did a fresh installation of windows 11 on the Sata SSD since I had not…
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How to have my Visual Studio running without debugging program keep expanding RAM usage till RAM is full and even then use SSD as "RAM"?

I got an "Out of memory exception" and my 32 GB RAM isn't even full, it's downloading pictures, I want it to keep downloading and expanding RAM usage at night and even use the SSD as alternative "RAM" after the RAM is filled (I have 2 TB SSD and it…
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How to tell if a C# project is being built using SSD?

I have a laptop with such setup, a big c# project is located on disk D: How do I tell if when building it, SSD is used? Or, what is used? RAM?... I first build it from command line, and when I open Visual Studio, I can build from there again. I…
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how to achieve disk write speed as high as fio does?

I bought a Highpoint a HBA card with 4 Samsung 960PRO in it.As the official site said this card can perform 7500MB/s in writing and 13000MB/s in reading. When I test this card with fio in my ubuntu 16.04 system,I got a writing speed of about…
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Does transfer learning solve the issue of imbalanced dataset?

I have read how imbalanced datasets can affect classification results majorly, but does using a transfer learning approach (like SSD) for object detection make sure that we dont need to balance the dataset to get good results ?
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Very slow copy of MyISAM .MYD file

We noticed that a few of our MyISAM .MYD files (MySQL databasebase tables) copy extremely slow. Both the C: drive and the D: drive are SSDs; theoretical limit is 500MB / sec data rate. For timings, we turn off the MySQL service. Here are some sample…
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How to use hard disk with raspberry pi?

I have a raspberry pi Zero and I wnat to use a 128GB ssd hard disk with it. How can I connect it to my raspberry pi.
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Can Crucial Micron SSD call home for news?

Not sure if this is a valid question for Stack Overflow, but I noticed something interesting in the S.M.A.R.T data for my Crucial Micron SSD. Inside the SMART data it embedded URLS warning me that my firmware was out of date: === START OF…
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Turning on encryption on SandForce controllers in OCZ SSDs

I have an OCZ Agility 3 SSD. This SSD runs the SandForce 2281 controller (PDF spec sheet) which supports native encryption. This is especially useful since the controller performs data compression for superior performance and software-based full…
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Best way to Clone SSD to new larger SSD using Ubuntu

I have Ubuntu as OS on 256GB SSD and have bought a larger 1TB SSD. Is Clonezilla a good option to clone SSD? Will Clonezilla use same size on new SSD and leave remaining GB’s as unallocated space? Is this a good way to do it? Have also been reading…
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Replacing HDD with SSD without loosing/reinstalling original OS and Installed Softwares

I have a windows 10 machine with HDD installed.I need to replace this HDD with SSD. My question is, is it possible to migrate the OS and the softwares already installed HDD to SSD without reinstalling.
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Samsung NVMe 980 PRO and Alfais 4390 M.2 Nvme Ssd Ngff To Pcie 3.0 X16 compatibility

Dear Friends I need help. Is the following combination compatible? What will be the maximum write and read speed I will get, AS MegaBytes? I will be glad to hear for your comments. 1- Samsung NVMe 980 PRO 2- Alfais 4390 M.2 Nvme Ssd Ngff To Pcie 3.0…
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Cannot connect to server in SQL Server Management Studio after installing a new SSD

I've just installed an SSD to my laptop. As a result most of my programs won't run unless I do a few tricks to make it reusable, the worst case is to uninstall and re-install it. Now it's for SQL Server Management Studio 2019, I can access the…
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