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Is it possible to install two SSD M2 drives using only 1 SATA port?
I have a six years old Toshiba laptop computer. It has traditional mechanical hard drive with SATA3 interface. It has no M2 SSD interface.
I am wondering if it is possible to install 2 SSD M2 using ...
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Windows 8.1 refuses to recognize my extra HDDs
Alright, so I've been trying to install a few extra hard drives since my storage has been getting quite full recently. However, Windows 8.1 will not let me set the disks up for proper use, or do ...
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SATA HDD detected in BIOS but not in Windows 8.1
I have a 500GB hard drive that is detected by Windows after boot when connected by USB 3.0 but when I attempt to connect it by SATA, it is not detected by Windows.
The SATA power and data cables ...
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Can't boot from hard drive, otherwise fine
TL;DR: Stopped being able to boot from a drive, but it appears to work otherwise, what should I do with it?
I've had a couple of Crucial SSDs since late 2011. No real issues, aside from one of them ...
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SATA hot plug has no effect in Windows
I have one hard drive inserted into a mobile rack. The hard drive is connected to the SATA port, which is configured with Hot Plug ON. However, I cannot see any way to flush buffers of this drive or ...
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WD Black 2.5 sata drive slow on windows 8. Sector size is 4k. What gives? 40MBps write
WD Black 2.5 sata drive slow on windows 8. Sector size is 4k. What gives? 40MBps write.
This is a brand new WD black scorpion 500gb drive, on a brand new Zotac Zbox Nano CI320, quad core with 4gb of ...
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Disk drive not recognized by laptop
I have an external USB drive. Took it apart and got the internal drive. Used it as normal on my desktop. Put it back together and tried to use it on a laptop.
The laptop recognizes the drive but does ...
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Windows 8.1 no longer sees my non-boot internal SATA drives
I've got a Dell XPS-8700 tower running Windows 8.1 Pro. I've had this PC for a couple of months, and installed two additional SATA drives from my old system. The boot drive is a 1Tb Western Digital ...
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Drive unable to be initialized in Windows 8.1 - "The device is not ready"
I've got a Western Digital WD10EZEX drive that arrived today. It is a replacement for another drive of the same make and model. I'm plugging it in to a Plugable Hard Drive Dock, which is connected to ...
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SSD and HDD transfer-rates impossibly high
Sometimes when I transfer a file from my SSD (Samsung 840 pro) to the same SSD, the transfer-rate is 800+ MBps, which should impossible from a SATA6 drive. Also, my HDD performs at 300+ MBps, again ...
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