Questions tagged [ssd]
A no-moving-parts all-electronic storage device which replaces a spinning hard disk drive.
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All non-Bash commands freeze the system after booting
Recently, my Raspberry Pi running Raspberry Pi OS seemed to have stopped working suddenly after having continouosly run fine for 2+ months (headless mode), as it didn't respond to SSH login requests ...
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How can I resize my Fedora Btrfs root partition to take up Windows space with my boot partition in the way?
I have a UEFI system on a laptop that's currently dual-booting Windows and Fedora 39 (KDE Plasma). I don't use Windows much, and need extra space on my Fedora partition. So, I need to shrink nvme0n1p3 ...
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How to generate daily report of total bytes written (TBW,DWPD) to disk (SSD) in Linux
What is the best way to get the correct value of total bytes written to disk per day?
My goal is to log it over time, so as an admin you can gain some sense of activity on a Linux Server and have a ...
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My SSD filled up mysteriously; now I can't boot Debian 12
I have a (new) Lenovo notebook and was using Debian 12.
I was working in a Google Docs file
and suddenly received a message saying that I should empty my SSD
because it was almost full.
When I ...
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Correct way to enable TRIM on recent Debian/Ubuntu
It used to be that properly enabling TRIM for SSDs on Linux involved two steps:
Running fstrim once, to take care of all the "untrimmed" blocks to date, then
Setting the discard flag in ...
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Arch Linux 6.7.2-arch1-1 sporadically crashes / reboots
I have recently built a new PC rig. At first everything seemed to work fine, but after a while, the system started crashing seemingly randomly.
"Randomly" meaning that it sometimes happens ...
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Convert MBR/BIOS to GPT/UEFI (infodump)
I wanted to upgrade my 1.5TB HDD to a 4TB SSD, none of the internet resources I found correctly matched my situation from beginning to end, and I ended up spending about 20 hours getting it to work, ...
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Corrupted portable SSD, wrong size detected, what to do?
I have a 240 GB portable SSD from Transcend.
ESD230C Portable SSD
Model: TS240GESD230C
SN: F43849-0038
Recently there have been long delays in reading data.
During another such long delay, I ...
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Erase external SSD completely, including SWAP
I have an external SSD which I need completely wiped. I had Mint installed on it, with SWAP and some root dir. Those I somehow cannot get rid off. I tried sudo dd but that just wipes sdc and those ...
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erase hardware-encrypted SSD
Disclaimer
I'm not robbing someone, didn't rob someone in the past and don't plan to do so anytime soon.
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Imagine I own a Samsung 2.5" SSD (850, 860 or the like) which is encrypted.
If ...
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Dual Boot Issue: Arch Linux SSD Not Recognized in BIOS After Windows Installation
I’m currently facing an issue with my dual boot setup. I have two NVMe SSDs: a 1TB SSD with Arch Linux and GRUB configured, and a newly installed 4TB SSD with Windows.
To avoid any complications ...
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Is my brand new USB SSD defective?
I've had a few times this problem in the past few days (but not in the previous weeks and I haven't changed anything besiders package updates) in a Debian 12 system (kernel 6.1 - haven't tried 6.6) ...
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How to extend existing /root parition (ssd sata) with nvme ssd
I'm on /root which is filling up fast it uses ssd/sata based i want to expand with new ssd (nvme) is it a good idea to extend based upon two different hardware specs but one logical volume using ...
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Large files end up corrupted when copying to a compressed NTFS3 win drive
I have two SSDs, one Linux, one Windows 11, and an HDD. I can copy normal-sized files just fine to each other, generally they are under 2GB.
Recently, I tried to copy a big file (32GB) from Linux (...
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How can I retrieve data from a HDD that couldn't finish os reinstall?
My sister asked me to fix her laptop that couldn't recognise some of the peripheries including the network cards. She hasn't used it for almost a year. First (almost half a year ago) I asked her to ...
