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A no-moving-parts all-electronic storage device which replaces a spinning hard disk drive.

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Debian GRUB installer partitioning step - Intel MacBook Pro

I am trying to install Debian to a partition on my SSD. Currently I have three partitions on my SSD: Container disk1 - AFPS container macOS AFPS Volume Group Linux - PCI-Express Internal Physical ...
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How to know if SD-slot is USB or actual SD-standard?

I am trying to figure out if my full size or micro size SD card slots on my Toshiba Click Mini 9l has the internals of using USB for SD card slots or if they are wired as actual SD-slots and not ...
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SSD not showing up in Bios - but working under Debian

I bought a new m.2 pcie 3.0 1TB ssd for my laptop from Samsung, and it works for storing and transferring files from Debian. But it doesn't show up in the BIOS, and I cannot boot from it. What could ...
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Fedora occasionally freezes when entering Sleep Mode

Fedora occasionally freezes when entering Sleep Mode. I bought an Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVME SSD for my PC (AMD Ryzen CPU and a AMD Radeon GPU. Both are a few years old.) Last night the computer ...
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FIO reports slower sequential read than the advertised NVMe SSD read bandwidth

TLDL For the very simple sequential read, FIO reports is much slower than the NVMe SSD sequentail read capability. Main Text Hello everyone, I have been facing an issue while trying to achieve the ...
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It possible use SSD as cache?

I have a linux media server that I use mainly with plex and Serviio(dlna server). I have a t400 4gb gpu (transcoding), 16GB ddr4 ram and an i7-6700 cpu. Now, I have 3 SSDs: 1TB for movies, 250GB for ...
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Persistent Installation Issues with Debian on SSD, Multiple Reinstalls and Hardware Changes

Laptop: Asus ROG G751JY I've been facing some persistent installation issues while trying to set up Debian on my laptop with both an HDD and an SSD. Here's a summary of what I've experienced: ...
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How to format NVMe drive in Linux suitable for raid 1 and lvm on xen Host

I want to create a software raid on two identical SSDs How do I create partitions and format them optimal? lsblk nvme0n1 259:0 0 953.9G 0 disk nvme1n1 259:1 0 953.9G 0 ...
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Laptop second ssd are read only after swapping primary win11 ssd for ubuntu22 ssd

I had dramas installing win11, ubuntu 20.04 and ubuntu 20.04 on my primary ssd. After the struggle got win11 recovered and formatted the second ssd. (new simple volume) I then replaced the primary ssd ...
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Interpret the output of smartctl for SSD and hard drive

I have dropped my external hard drive on the floor recently and wanted to know if the electronic parts and mechanical parts were damaged. I have no idea how to find this out from the output of ...
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My linux is using 100% of my ssd for no reason

The largest folders I have on the system WARNING: Full balance without filters requested. This operation is very intense and takes potentially very long. It is recommended to use the balance filters ...
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Using manufacturer SSD tools under MSWin on SSDs used under Unix (Linux/OS X)?

The manufacturers of the SSDs I currently use all have their own tools for lowlevel maintenance, which usually also work only on internal drives (i.e. no USB-attached externals). Too bad apparently ...
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What are these three numbers in parenthesis next to "Power_On_Hours" in `smartctl -a` output?

Sometimes the output of the smartctl -a command shows three numbers separated by spaces in parenthesis after the value of Power_On_Hours. This can be seen in multiple previously asked questions here: ...
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"structure needs cleaning", hardware failure?

The drive that my /home folder lives on is showing signs of failing, and I'm trying to migrate to a new drive.  I purchased a 4TB SSD, formatted it with ext4, mounted it as an external drive with a ...
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Why is blkdiscard not erasing all data of the whole drive?

I have an old mSATA SSD (model name: Plextor PX-128M6M), which is installed to an mSATA-to-USB enclosure with ASM1153E controller. I want to (just logically, at the SSD controller level) erase all of ...
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