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Why does my internal SSD take a long time (about 30 seconds) to become accessible Windows 10?
When I resume my PC from sleep, a particular SSD takes about 30 seconds to become available (I can see the drive but Explorer freezes accessing it during this time). It otherwise operates normally (...
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Can Windows machines wake as fast as Mac? [closed]
My wife is a Mac user and I am a Windows user. When my wife opens the lid of her 2017 Macbook, the computer is almost instantly awake and running, with everything useable on the desktop. Even at its ...
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PC shuts down when selecting Sleep
I've had this problem from a while now and it is really frustrating.
It all started after I changed my SSD with a new one. The one I had was M.2 SATA and the new one is M.2 NVMe. After changing it, I ...
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Make Windows wake up from SSD before HDDs do
I have a PC running Windows 10 and all the programs off an NVME SSD, with two additional HDDs for storing media and other files. When the PC wakes up from sleep, I hear HDDs spinning up and then it ...
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How to prevent Windows 10 from immediately waking after shutdown or sleep?
After newly setting up Windows 10 on a new SSD, it always immediately wakes up again if I shut it down or send it to sleep. The only way to keep it off (aside from cutting the power supply) is to ...
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Is Hibernate mode safe to use?
In light of Dell and MS's vile decision to disable S3 sleep and only allow S0, I wanted to be able to trust Hibernate mode instead of sleep. I read that there may be some caveats to Hibernate, as it ...
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SSD: Does frequent powercycling / high number of power on count reduce lifetime?
Frequent power cycling on rotating HDDs decreases lifetime, I know that.
Since on SSDs there are no moving parts I would expect that powercylcing them wouldn't reduce their lifetime. So you can easily ...
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After Resuming from Sleep, Second SATA HDD Visible, But Not Accessible
Second SATA HDD is Visible, But Not Accessible after Resume from Sleep.
Dell 15r 7520
Windows 8.1x64 - Fully Updated
C Drive - OS Drive. Kingston mSATA SSD
D Drive - 2nd Drive: WD Blue 1TB SATA
The WD ...
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If I can't suspend an SSD-using machine, how should I conserve power when I'm not using it?
I'm having some trouble suspending my Xubuntu 19.10 machine that only uses an SSD for storage. However, I still want to be able to save power when I'm not using the system. How can I do this? Below ...
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How do I check if suspending is turning off my SSD?
I'm having some trouble suspending on Xubuntu 19.10. Given that, prior to a REISUB reboot, nothing is written to syslog.log after the lines below and that I'm being robbed of the ability to interact ...
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Windows 10 - Hybrid sleep and SSD
I recently had a problem with my desktop PC. I had Windows 10 installed on my HDD (along with Linux), and bought a SSD. I then moved my Windows 10 partition to my new SSD (had to sort out some boot ...
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Lenovo Flex 4 BSOD with new SSD
I purchased a Crucial M4 128GB SSD (Model CT128M4SSD2) new from eBay for my Lenovo Flex 4-1580. The drive performs well, and otherwise meets its specifications, but I've run into an issue: Whenever I ...
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Windows 10: Secondary HDD wakes up when primary SSD is accessed
I've got an external 2,5" HDD hooked to my Windows 10 machine with a build in SSD.
Since the HDD only holds media, I'd like the drive to be in standby-mode when ever possible to reduce noise and ...
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Can I prevent a secondary HDD from spinning up when waking my computer?
I have a SSD as my booting hard drive. I also have a spinning HDD for large files and backups that does not need to run all the time. I have it on a timer, such that it spins down after being idle for ...
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Laptop keeps restarting after sleep with SanDisk Ultra II 960GB
I'm having issues with my new SanDisk Ultra II 960GB SSD in Asus Q550LF laptop running Windows 10: laptop keeps resetting after being woken up from sleep.
Looking in Windows event log, sleep event is ...
