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New SSD speed tanks after writing a couple of GBs [duplicate]

My System: Windows 11 Pro Intel 13600K RTX 2080 TI MAG B660M MORTAR DDR4 Samsung NVME 980 Pro 1TB (Windows) SEAGATE 1.92TB BarraCuda SATA 3 2.5" ZA1920CV1A002 This brand new SSD - SEAGATE 1....
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Periodic drops in SSD writing speed down to 20 MB/sec

Before yesterday I had extremely slow writing speeds on my SSD. My main SSD has capacity of 1.7 TB. I have another SSD but with smaller capacity of 960 GB. I decided to test the writing speed of both ...
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Windows Server 2019 extremely slow lately, can't figure out why

Over the past few weeks my Windows 2019 Server has been getting slower and slower. It's a development machine and I'm the only one on it. It's an Intel i7-4790 3.6ghz, 16gb RAM, one WD 500gb and one ...
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Will game performance suffer by moving OS from PCIe 3.0x4 to SATA III SSD?

I currently use a 1TB PCIe 3.0x4 (2300MB/s) NVMe SSD as both my OS boot drive and game storage drive. However, it's quickly filling up. I have a 500GB SATA III (560MB/s) SSD sitting in a drawer doing ...
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NVMe SSD is slower for 512, 1024, 2048 byte blocks than SATA 3, is this normal, or should I do something?

I have two WD 1T SSDs in my system a SATA 3 and a PCI Express adapter card hosted NVMe. Using 19041 x64 Windows 10, all driver is the default Windows 10. The NVMe SDD is working properly in NVMe ...
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Installing SATA3 SSD in HDD or SATA Optical drive

I have Dell Inspiron 5458 and want to replace my storage with SSD. The HDD is 6Gbps SATA 3 interface which is perfect for my new 6Gbps SATA 3 SSD. But my question is will I get same performance/speed ...
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Can HDD low speed spindle motor be replaced with high speed one?

Wondering if an HDD low speed spindle motor be replaced with high speed one to increase its read/write speed or if this kind of replacement is ineffective perhaps due to a speed controller inside of ...
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Hard drive usage/latency skyrocketing for no apparent reason?

I am running Windows 10 Home Edition on a Gigabyte Aorus motherboard. I have a Western Digital Blue 4TB spinning hard drive (connected with SATA) which seems to be functioning incorrectly. In my ...
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How does loss of single drive influence 4k random performance of RAID 1 array?

Here is one explanation of the benefits of RAID 1: "As different disks can seek on different data, it [RAID 1] has up to 2x the random read IOPS but the same 1x (or slightly lower, due to ...
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Horribly slow write speed of HDD

I bought a brand new HDD(Seagate ST2000DMZ08, 2TB, 7200rpm) for my desktop PC running Windows 10, a month ago. When I installed it, I was getting about a 230mb/s read speed along with a 195mb/s write ...
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Is 30MB/s Normal For a 7200RPM 320GB HDD

I recently started noticing some texture loading issues in a couple of games. I had noticed these problems long ago and have now realized that from that time I have replaced every component in my PC ...
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Sporadic extremly slow read speed on hard disk

For some time I have a sporadic issue with my hard disk, showing up in the form of extremely slow access time (~200 ms according to Windows) and read speed (~ 1 MB/sec). This holds even for sequential ...
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Can a SATA cable be too short?

In an attempt to clean up the wiring in my mini-tower desktop case and make it less of a mess to handle, I'm considering swapping out the longer SATA cables in it for ones that are only as short as ...
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Performance problems with external SAS LTO-5 drive

I recently got an external SAS LTO-5 tape drive from eBay for my NAS at home, and a SAS PCI-E adapter - this is the sas2flash output: LSI Corporation SAS2 Flash Utility Version 20.00.00.00 (2014.09....
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Optimal SATA Connections: 3 devices for two different bus speeds

I have a motherboard with two SATA controllers. One provides two 6Gbps ports, and the other provides four 3Gbps ports. I have a SSD that will be the primary system drive, a supplemental 7200RPM 500GB ...
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