You haven't mentioned what specific drive or capacity, which makes it hard to give you any specific advice. But 1% per month means you'd expect the drive to last around 100 months, which is over eight years. That's a lot longer than the drive's warranty and is a reasonable lifespan for what is...
You probably just need to convert your existing Windows 10 installation to stop trying to boot using 16-bit BIOS mode and use UEFI booting instead. Most likely, your old system didn't have any components that needed to use the BIOS CSM but your motherboard had it on by default and you...
As mentioned throughout the review, it's using a PCIe switch (a Broadcom PEX switch), as any 8x M.2 riser card must. That means it doesn't need bifurcation support and will work with any number of PCIe lanes for the uplink to the host system. Since it has a 6-pin PCIe power connector, it...
Even if Linux is not suitable for your day to day needs, you should consider booting to a Linux Live USB to help diagnose what's going on with your system. Windows is notorious for hiding useful information from the user and outright lying about the state of the system, especially in...
The primary purpose of DirectStorage is to reduce the CPU overhead of IO in Windows, which should have the effect of reducing or eliminating this kind of storage benchmark disparity.
It would be interesting to see this comparison done on Linux, which already has good options for low-overhead IO.
Prior to Tiger Lake (IIRC), Intel implemented NVMe RAID and SSD caching (Optane Memory) using a weird feature of the PCH to hide NVMe drives from the regular PCIe system and make them only accessible through the SATA controller, so that only Intel's RST drivers would be able to find the NVMe...
The typical worry is that a price crash will drive one of the major players out of the market, either through a (near-)bankruptcy and acquisition or a pivot away from the leading edge. However, Intel's already in the process of exiting the market, SK hynix is much more competitive than they were...
NF1 is not intended to be a slot provided by motherboards, especially not consumer motherboards. It's intended to be implemented on backplanes for hot-swap slots at the front of rackmount servers.
Yep, VMD is to blame. It's not a problem for Clonezilla because it's based on Linux which has supported VMD for a long time (because VMD originated on servers). It's an ironic reversal from the mess caused by Intel's earlier RAID/caching solution for consumer platforms.
The 3D XPoint manufacturing facility was sold to TI—by Micron, after they bought out Intel's stake in that fab. Intel never owned their own 3DXP fab, and were never able to generate enough sales volume to use anywhere near the full capacity of the fab they shared with Micron. The machinery for...
On Intel consumer platforms, this is something to watch out for, because activating RAID mode on the SATA controller will on several platforms also activate some hacks to support Intel's NVMe RAID and Optane Memory caching solutions, with the effect that standard NVMe drivers won't be able to...
In a two-drive RAID-0 array, the probability of drive A failing is mostly independent of drive B failing. Either one of the drives failing kills the array. So the probability of the array as a whole failing is approximately twice the probability of a single drive failing, and this trend...
It looks like you haven't actually enabled XMP speed/timings in the UEFI settings, or if you did then the system failed to POST at that speed and reverted back to JEDEC standard 2133 MT/s.
A partition restore will by definition do less than one full drive write (though software updates after the restore will cause some additional writes). Consumer SSDs are typically rated for 0.3 drive writes per day for five years, though low-end drives often have only a three-year warranty and...
If it seems to work at 1T, then run memtest overnight to confirm that it's truly stable.
Recommendations about what should work with one 16GB stick per channel may be based on an assumption about whether a 16GB stick is a single-rank or dual-rank part, where dual-rank is more stressful for the...
M.2 SSDs with two notches can be either SATA or PCIe x2. There aren't a lot of PCIe x2 SSDs on the retail market, and they're all quite low-end. The exception are the Optane Memory modules, which have pretty good performance given the constraints of PCIe 3.0 x2, but the capacities top out at...
I think smartctl from https://www.smartmontools.org/ can do this on Windows, depending on the NVMe driver you're using: https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/NVMe_Support
The limitation preventing smartmontools from working with NVMe drives on Windows 7 using the built-in NVMe driver will also...
My intention was to point out that your skepticism about third-party software was unjustified, not to call out Samsung in particular. But, since you think poor little Samsung has been unfairly insulted and needs you to defend their honor, I'll elaborate a bit in this direction:
Take a step back...
Are there really counterfeit LSI HBAs out there, or are there just a lot of listings using the LSI/Broadcom card names but actually selling re-branded and OEM-specific cards based on the same chips and same or nearly-identical firmware?
This is pretty much the opposite of the mindset you should have. Most of the "magic" in a tool like Samsung Magician is snake oil and window dressings, and what little useful functionality it has is stuff that should be a standard part of the operating system rather than tied up in...
That's not the whole story, which would be obvious if you would actually inspect the partition tables on your source and backup drives. Possibly your tool is converting the MBR from the source disk into a series of EBRs nested inside the primary partition you have selected as the destination of...
Are we to believe that your cloning process results in a partition on the backup disk containing literally everything from the source disk, including the boot sector and partition table—embedded at the start of a partition rather than at the start of a disk? That's so thoroughly non-standard...
You've been peculiarly resistant to providing useful information thus far in this thread, but you have admitted to doing some pretty strange and non-standard things with your system. So educating yourself enough to understand what you've done is the most likely path to a satisfactory resolution...
It's quite hard to tell if anything is wrong with the packaging, given that you uploaded screenshots of your photos rather than the photos themselves. But keep in mind that different parts of the world may get the same drive in different packaging.
Go read up on the differences between MBR and GPT, and BIOS vs UEFI booting. And if you still need help figuring out what's going on in your system, boot to a Linux live system and use that to see what's really on your drives—all the partitions, filesystems and partition tables, including any...
For reads, yes. But on a single-die basis, writing to TLC NAND is typically 10-20x slower than reading, which is why SLC caching exists in the first place.
The industry is moving toward dividing 512Gbit dies into four planes that can operate more or less in parallel, rather than just two...
The "Performance" mode simply disables the low-power idle states. So of course idle power and idle temperature go up. It doesn't do much for performance, though.
The updated 970 EVO Plus is using 512Gbit 128L dies, while the 980 PRO uses 256Gbit dies except on the 2TB model. So the 128L version of the 1TB 970 EVO Plus has half as many dies as the 92L version, or the 1TB 980 PRO. The 980 non-PRO also uses the 512Gbit 128L dies on at least the 500GB and...
The Micron 3400 and 2450 are not retail SSD models. Those get Crucial branding. SSDs sold directly under the Micron brand are for OEMs and other large-scale B2B sales. This is just like Samsung's 9xx PRO/EVO consumer/retail vs their SM/PM9xx OEM models.
NVMe was in its infancy when that motherboard was made. Many of the early PCIe M.2 SSDs didn't use the NVMe protocol and instead used AHCI, basically emulating the combination of an extra SATA controller with one drive permanently attached (and able to outperform the 6Gbps limit of SATA). Those...
The NVMe Host Memory Buffer feature has nothing to do with the system firmware. Whether the system boots with UEFI or something else doesn't matter at all. The only thing that matters is whether the operating system knows how to use the HMB feature. If it doesn't, you get somewhat lower...
If we're talking about the newer low-end Samsung 980 (non-PRO) that's DRAMless, then the ADATA Gammix S11 Pro will definitely be faster, even if we don't know exactly which NAND flash memory they're currently using. https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/2793?vs=2768
Actual version numbers, please. Including the firmware currently on the SSD and on the updater you manually downloaded.
Samsung Magician's built-in self update functionality is extremely unreliable in my experience, and it will often claim to be the latest version even when there's clearly a...
From the bottom of the article: "This week the company reaffirmed its plan and said it would begin sample shipments of its 18 TB MG09-series MAMR HDDs 'at the end of March 2021.'"
So the drives have been sampling for a little over a month at the most. It is unrealistic for you to expect them to...
SSDs usually have temperature sensors for the controller and the NAND flash, and sometimes a few others. Cooling just the controller side of the drive is not going to cause it to overheat the NAND on the back. You might end up with the temperature of the NAND on the back side being the limiting...
That's very strange. The hardware capabilities necessary to enable reading from a NVMe or SATA drive through a USB bridge are identical to the hardware capabilities necessary for writing. So any read-only limitation is not a fundamental consequence of the adapter hardware itself. Probably...
It looks like the NTFS filesystem may have been successfully shrunk to some degree, but the partition containing that filesystem did not get resized to match the new end point. Try resizing the filesystem/partition again, and if it completes successfully this time then the partition table should...
Boot into Linux and see what's reported by tools like lspci and nvme-cli. Windows has a strong commitment to not being transparent about what's going on under the hood.
You might be seeing numerous instances of the device as a result of SR-IOV virtualization, or you might be seeing numerous...
SSDs have multiple layers of error correction. A read disturb error can happen: where repeatedly reading for a memory cell causes a slight change in voltage of that cell or a nearby cell. It generally takes a lot of reads to cause a read disturb error. The SSD's lower layers of error correction...
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