Questions tagged [ssd]
A solid-state drive (SSD) is a data storage device that uses solid-state storage to store persistent data with the intention of providing access in the same manner of a traditional mechanical spinning/magnetic block I/O hard disk drive.
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Dual booting Windows and Linux with NVMe M.2 and another SSD
I currently have a 970 Evo Plus 1TB M.2 NVMe with Windows and a old 120 GB PNY SSD with Windows on it as well. I was thinking about playing around with Linux distros on my old SSD so I still have my ...
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slow boot with SSD
replaced HDD with SSD because slow boot ,boot is only about 2X faster than HDD!!
25 seconds from pressing the power key to the login screen
core-i5-4310U 2GHz - 8GB Ram DDR3
systemd-analyze blame ...
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Dual Boot System - SSD Having (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS) showing as unknown device
Laptop : Acer E5
Primary Drive: SSD (Ubuntu 18.04 Installed) 64bit
Secondary : HHD (Windows 10) 64bit
Boot Menu: Grub Gnu
I have set Under Windows the following "bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\...
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Ubuntu 20.04 install freezes on 'Updates and other software'
I bought a Lenovo T450, with windows 10 pro already installed, 20BUS X64 Lenovo, Intel i5-5300u CPU, 8gb ram 224gb SSD.
I am trying to install Ubuntu 20.04 alongside windows to allow duel boot. I have ...
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What external SSD hard drives can be used for a Ubuntu install?
I have previously installed Ubuntu on both a USB stick and an SSD drive connected through USB. Nevertheless, I have failed to do so recently with the SanDisk Ultra Portable SSD external hard disk. The ...
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Is it possible to extend my "computer" partition?
I was trying to dual boot Ubuntu in my laptop, and as I have 2 drives (SSD - 128GB AND HDD - 1 TB) and as my ssd contained my windows, I wanted to get Ubuntu running in my HDD, so I tried making ...
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How to copy the GRUB menu to another disk whilst keeping the original
I tried to install Ubuntu (20.04) directly to a USB key for a friend to try out Ubuntu. I did the install using my Ubuntu (19.10) system to do so.
All went well installing to the USB key and it boots ...
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No OS found on SSD. GRUB seems fine
I got a a400 120GB SSD and I've proceeded to install Ubuntu Mate 18.04. After the installation it told me to reboot. I changed the boot order to start from the IDEO(up until now there was no name for ...
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Dual boot using an SSD and HDD
So what I'm trying to achieve may have already been answered, but I just can't find any existing threads.
Basically I'm installing Ubuntu for the first time and I've just bought a 250gb HDD to dual ...
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Migrating from SSD to NVME using dd
I have a 500GB SSD:
/dev/sdc2 457G 201G 234G 47% /
and a 1TB nvme:
/dev/nvme0n1
So I have ran the command to migrate:
dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/nvme0n1 bs=4M status=progress conv=sync,...
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How to manage GRUB Bootmanager issues with Ubuntu on (frequently removed) external SSD
I have a new hp laptop with Windows 10 and UEFI.
I installed Ubuntu on an external SSD, and did the partitioning according to this How to use manual partitioning during installation?.
Everything ...
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Ubuntu Mate 20.04 exception Emask SAct SErr action 0x6 frozen
I have a Kingston Predator PCIe 240 GB SSD (AHCI device.) I dual boot Ubuntu with Windows 7 64-bit. If I boot Ubuntu from poweroff, everything is fine. But if I boot after restarting from Windows, ...
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SSD moved to new laptop but won't boot
Bought a new Thinkpad T510i-4314-9UG laptop, and took the old SSD 2.5" to the new laptop. Its BIOS settings are Quick boot disabled, drive type AHCI.
I can't get it to boot up, all i get is a ...
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How to install Ubuntu with /usr on a different partition than /?
I've done a bit of research and found lots of questions about either moving the /usr directory to another partition or installing Ubuntu with /home on a different partition but couldn't find anything ...
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Moving My Ubuntu from a USB to My main SSD
I Have recently moved to Ubuntu from Windows. I tried it by installing it on a USB instead of my main drive. But now i would like to move it to mt main drive. But i do not want to start from scratch. ...
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Is it advisable to always click on "safely remove drive" for an external SSD drive before "closing the laptop lid" (going into standby/suspend mode)?
… if so, why?
The drive (in my case) contains files only (backup files, media, ... );
It is not a boot drive, nor does it contain a swap partition or any installations or programs.
I can imagine ...
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Nvme SSD not showing up after sudden black screen
I use dual boot windows 10 / Ubuntu 18.04 both on one ssd. One day I was working on Ubuntu and suddenly a black screen with lots of text started showing up exts-fs error something like that. I went ...
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Asus Vivobook X512 SSD (new)
This laptop has a 512GB SSD drive (using memory sticks); the laptop works perfectly with Ubuntu 18.4 from a live usb drive; the goal was to dual boot though Ubuntu only would be fine as well
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Slow boot, dual boot SSD 19.10
Never had so much trouble getting a Linux distro up and running without a problem. Arch and Pop!_OS wouldn't even let me boot.
I got the old reliable Ubuntu to boot and install correctly next to ...
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How to move Ubuntu "/" from SSD to HDD
I have a dual boot system (Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04) on my ASUS laptop. It has a 1TB HDD and a 128GB SSD. Currently, the partition table looks like this:
**1TB HDD**
Device Start ...
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smartmontols unknown attributes for scandisk SSD
I make a long test for my SSD (scandisks), but I get some unknown Unknown_Attributes.
sudo lshw -c disk
*-disk:0
description: ATA Disk
product: SanDisk SDSSDA12
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Dell Latitude E5470 heating up, Ubuntu 18.04
Newbie here, I installed Ubuntu 18.04 yesterday, and since then I noticed that the right side of the laptop especially at the palm rest area is very warm, my right hand is always sweating. I didn't ...
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Ubuntu terminal taking a very long time, because of import 'keras'
I have a Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows dual boot on my SSD. And HDD is common to both, for storage.
Now the problem is that the terminal takes a very very long time to open when run from hdd, but opens up ...
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Can`t get Ubuntu to work on external device
I am trying to install Ubuntu for the 6th time now and cant get it to work. I want to install it on an extern PCIe SSD connected with my Laptop via Thunderbolt. So I started from Windows and used a ...
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Why is Ubuntu running relatively slowly on my machine?
So I run my Desktop with a dual boot of Windows 10 and Linux Mint 19.4, my desktop specs are:
Motherboard: MSI X570 Gaming Carbon Pro Wifi
System HD for Win10: Sabrent 4 1TB NvME SSD
System HD for ...
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Windows 10 Repairing Loop after installing Ubuntu
I have a 250 GB SSD and a 2TB HDD. 1 Year Ago I moved my windows to the ssd and everything was working fine.
Today I decided to install Ubuntu alongside with windows. During installation, I choose ...
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Ubuntu installer won't recognize my SSD on Macbook Air
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 19.10 on my laptop:
Model: Macbook Air 11" (early 2015)
SSD: APPLE SSD AP0128H (128 GB; PCI-Express)
Current SO: MacOS 10.15.3 (Catalina)
At the step of selecting the ...
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How to recognize SSD drive with Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller in 'RAID mode'
I have a Dell Latitude 5300 with a SSD drive and with what lshw shows as ''82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode]''. BIOS is configured by default with SATA operation = "RAID On" mode and I don't ...
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Experiencing total system freeze on Ubuntu 19.10
It has been a while that I am experiencing some sever random system freeze with my new laptop with Ubuntu 19.04 as well as 19.10. I suspected that something might be wrong with the hardware as the ...
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Looking for a storage strategy for hybrid and full flash storage with manageable configuration overhead
I have been using lvmcache with a larger HDD and an NVME drive (about one fifth of the size of the HDD) for a while for the space where I store my projects and data on my workstation at home, with ...
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Partitions for Dual Boot Win10 + Ubuntu with OS in SSD and HDD as storage
My curent notebook has 120GB of SSD and 1TB of HDD, with Windows 10 installed in the SSD and using HDD as storage. I thought about making a dual boot with Ubuntu 18 OS in the SSD and storing files and ...
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Grub doesn't boot or detect my NVMe SSD after botched (X)Ubuntu upgrade
I had a Xubuntu installation happily working from a LVM partition in an SSD drive (NVMe). After many months without issue, I tried to upgrade it from 19.04 to 19.10 but it didn't finish successfully ...
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Poor NVME SSD Performance (only on Linux)
I'm using the dual boot for Windows and Ubuntu operating systems. I've Adata s40g NVME SSD 3500/1200 NVME m2 SSD. The SSD performing 2200/1200 on my Windows operating system and 1000/400 on my Linux ...
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Install Xubuntu on two hard drives
I have a laptop with two hard drives and I would like to install Xubuntu.
Here are the two hard drives:
256GB SSD and
500GB HDD
Can I install The / and /home partitions on the SSD one and again a /...
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SSD not detected after booting into linux and GRUB not booting into windows
My laptop has two drives:
an SSD (which came with Windows installed) and
a HDD (on which I have just finished installing Ubuntu 18.04 LTS).
I have 2 issues which are as follows:
GRUB loads when ...
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Problem after mounting a new SSD in a machine with Ubuntu 16.04
I am new to Ubuntu. I have a standalone machine with ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I installed tensorflow for studying Deep learning programming and everything was working fine.
Recently, I wanna expand the ...
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"Missing" around 300gb on 512gb ssd
I picked up a new laptop just recently and installed Ubuntu Mate 18.04 right away. So, the system is pretty clean.
That being said, here's the problem. I have got some disk space missing. I have got ...
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Moved SSD from one machine to another, and now networking doesnt work
I had an issue where i needed to use my 18.04.3 server hardware for another system, i removed the drive and inserted it into another system i had lying around. now it doesnt seem to work on the ...
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Installing Ubuntu 18.04.3 attempt on a NVMe SSD
I am trying to install Ubuntu 18.04.3 on a Ryzen 7 8-core system with a NVMe SSD AHCI SATA. The motherboard recognizes the on-board drive. The ISO installation CD reads an error message:
no drive ...
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Decided to install an SSD in an old laptop. All went havoc
My old HP laptop had 2 HDDs; system, and data backup. I decided to upgrade the system to an SSD.
Removed the backup drive, installed the SSD as drive 1 and the HD as drive 2. Used Clonezilla in a ...
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Can`t see HDD disk after Ubuntu 18.04 install on SSD
I am new user to Ubuntu. I used Windows last 10 years. Excuse me for stupid questions and for bad English.
I bought a new Acer Aspire 3 laptop - 4 GB of RAM, 128 SSD drive and 500 GB HDD drive.
I ...
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Self-encrypting NVME drive recommendations?
We work with sensitive data. We must have encryption, and performance is a primary consideration. We'd really like to allow the developers to have their choice of working in Windows or Linux.
I'm a ...
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Dual booting Windows 10 and Ubuntu on 128 GB SSD and 1TB HDD drive. What is the best partitioning choice?
I want to install Ubuntu alongside Windows 10 but I am not sure how to partition my drives.
My SSD drive (where Windows 10 is on) has around 50 GB free space and my 1TB HDD has around 600 GB free ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 installer unable to detect PCIe NVMe SSD
I have a HP Omen dg0019tx laptop with Win 10, NVIDIA RTX2080, 2 numbers of 1 TB PCIe NVMe SSD configured as RAID 0 Volume. I tried to dual boot it with Ubuntu 18.04, however, Ubuntu is unable to ...
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Only 4 out of 6gb RAM available after installing ubuntu on new ssd (dual boot with windows 10 in separate SSDs)
I just got a new SSD and installed Ubuntu there. I already had windows 10 installed on a different SSD.
I mostly followed the information in Dual Boot Windows 10 and Linux Ubuntu on Separate SSD.
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Ubuntu 18.04 does not load SSD NVMe XPG Gammix - Lenovo Gamer Legion Y530
I have a Notebook Lenovo Gamer Legion Y530 I7-8750h, an SSD NVMe XPG Gammix 1TB and a SSD 1TB SATA installed.
The BIOS recognizes both drives.
I left set on BIOS to Boot Mode: Legacy Support
The ...
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Installing a Samsung 850 Evo SSD and migrating old HDD to SSD
I am entirely new to Linux and don't know the jargon. I have an old 32-bit Acer, with 2GB RAM and 120 GB Hard Drive. I have downloaded Ubuntu 14.04 and it runs. I want to transfer this to a Samsung ...
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SSD filling up; problem accessing HDD disk
I recently installed Ubuntu 18.04 on my MSI GV62 7RE laptop (no dual boot, everything wiped). I installed it to the SSD drive, but since there's not much space, I realize I will have to move some ...
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Ubuntu slow launching with SSD 36 seconds
I installed Ubuntu 18.04 yesterday and after some hard first steps really enjoying this platform. I have only one system installed on my whole PC and it is Ubuntu. I am running SSD drive. Here is my ...
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Ubuntu 18.0x not detecting Windows SSD during installation
I am trying to install the Ubuntu 18 TLS on my new thinkpad t580 with SSD (only one drive is there.(windows10 is already installed)
I have created a 99GB of free space partition .
(using the disk ...
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