May 24, 2003 · Flash/SSD is not so heavily affected by fragmentation, so the only real concern is the CPU demand. Can someone else check this for me? If you have an SSD, all you need to do is NTFS compress your Program Files directory and see if performance noticeably decreases.

Feb 28, 2013 · So I have two SSDs - one a OCZ Vertex 3 the other a Corsair CSSD F120GB2. I get BSODs which I am convinced are due to them (KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR) I went to each respective company's site and downloaded the relevant tools to flash the firmware In both cases, the tools cannot see my drives...

Jul 2, 2012 · USB flash drives are essentially low performance SSDs; the NAND is organized into a couple of channels at best (low total throughput) and is increasingly TLC NAND (lower lifetime), and the controllers are simple devices that don't take the kind of care SSD controllers do to hide latency and hold down write amplification.

Jul 8, 2011 · The cost of an external SSD, or making your own external 2.5" USB 3.0 SSD, shouldn't be too much more than whatever this cost you. That reads like it's basically a 256GB USB flash drive, or they also cheaped out on RAM, so it can't hold enough of the mapping tables w/o going out to the drive.

Aug 21, 2011 · Is there a difference between the wear leveling and other factors which influence lifespan btwn sdcards and usb thumb drives? I assume thumb drives are better because theres more space/power for drive controller. There was a thread talking about static/dynamic wear leveling on usb thumb drives...

Aug 14, 2010 · Why, for example, does the data recorder example stress a flash SSD more than say continuously writing to the same sector? The answer is that the data recorder - by writing to successively sectors - makes the best use of the inbuilt block erase/write circuits and the external (to the flash memory - but still internal to the SSD) buffer / cache.

Dec 3, 2022 · I bought a "2TB" SSD off AliExpress, ran h2testw on it, and it died after writing about 1TB to it. This and the way writing slowed down suggests to me that it was a 1TB QLC drive (which is also reasonably consistent with the price I paid).

Nov 28, 2013 · I want to install it now, but have neither. The laptop has 2 ssd's.The laptop is a 7 year old acer aspire e5-575g. What can be done to replace windows 10 os with batocera? I want to make my old laptop into a retro gaming console.

Jan 17, 2011 · Hello, Is it possible to update the mobo BIOS using Asus EZ Flash from an internal SATA hard drive partitioned as FAT32? I have an Asus P8P67 motherboard, and the manual says that Asus EZ Flash should be run from a USB flash drive, but I don't have a reliable USB flash drive around right now.

May 24, 2016 · Marvell s 5th generation flash controller, from what I can find on this is that with this new flash nand will do more than just decrease the cost of ssd s...