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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UBUNTU take over?
NOOB here with Ubuntu. I installed Ubuntu on a windows PC. Somehow i missed the step where I was supposed to install Ubuntu side by side with Windows. So I have an Ubuntu only PC. I want to get rid of ...
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Auto mounting mobible SSD is low in Ubuntu20.04
My OS is ubuntu20.04, for mechanical mobile HDD, such WD of size 2T, the processing is fast, but for mobile SSD(Crucial X6), the auto mounting processing is slow, it takes almost 60s,In windows 10, ...
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How can I use/extend a new hard drive on ubuntu from my main ssd? [duplicate]
I have my main(120gb SSD) drive with Ubuntu 22.04 installed on:
dev/sda1
I have another 3 TB hard drive which is formatted as ext4:
dev/sdb1
What I would ideally like:
I would like to "fuse&...
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Docker Relocate to external USB SSD Problem
Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS
Docker version 24.0.2
I am trying to relocate the /var/lib/docker directory to my USB SSD flash drive to save memory on the internal storage, however, I am having difficulty doing ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 can't shut down my laptop
I installed Ubuntu 22.04 on external SSD and it works fine but when I try to shut down my laptop it doesn't completely shuts down, screen goes black but ventilators are keep working. It feels like it ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 Server Periodic Read Only After fstrim
Running a Dell 7625 server (AMD Epyc, 2 x A30 GPU) for small/medium local research projects.
We swapped out the original disks for 8TB Samsung EVO 870s, with one running the OS.
Every week when fstrim ...
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SSD emergency mode [duplicate]
I tried to boot after mounting a new SSD.
You are in emergency mode.
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Is this the best place to ask complex questions? [migrated]
I've somehow fried my pc trying to install ubuntu and have a lot to write to describe symptoms, etc. Is this where people do that kind of thing or is there somewhere less official where people go for ...
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After suspend, need admin password
I have a HP z400 and an Intel SSD (SATA) and fore a couple of month ago I have same issue, the wake up from suspend I need admin password to read power state from my SSD. THen suddenly It disappear ...
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How can I determine possible GPU driver conflicts on Kubuntu?
I had a question regarding my Linux setup that an old friend helped me with, however I have encountered a new challenge and am unsure of the correct solution (and don't want to brick my ssd).
OS ...
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Help needed regarding GRUB for Dual Boot from two different SSDs
I am comparatively new to Ubuntu.I have a laptop with Windows10 installed on a 1TB SATA SSD.Today,i added another 240GB NVMe SSD & Installed Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
I can successfully dual boot & ...
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I installed ubuntu recently in my laptop completely wiping windows. I have a 512gb ssd and 512gb hdd in my laptop but only ssd is visible
So i recently installed ubuntu in my laptop earl6it had windows 11
My laptop has 512gb ssd and 512gb hdd
The problem is that when i ran the required command to shows the disk on my laptop in the ...
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Problems installing Ubuntu Server on an empty SSD
I'm trying to install Ubuntu Server 22.04 or 23.10, both crashing with the same problem. My hardware is an AMD Ryzen 5 7640U mini-PC with Lexar NVMe SSD. I'm booting from a USB drive with OS image.
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External USB SSD disk fails to mount at boot
I have two external drives attached to my Ubuntu Server 22.04.3. My /etc/fstab includes, among other things, the following two lines for the two drives:
/dev/disk/by-uuid/d7dbea69-0332-4d12-b905-...
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Fedora 38 boot ISO sees my computer's (Firebat A16 laptop) 1TB SSD /dev/sda but Ubuntu 22.04 boot ISO does NOT
Ubuntu Mate 22.04 live USB boots/runs fine - everything works except recognizing my SDD, /dev/sda. It doesn't matter what disk or partition utility I use (all the standard ones on the USB plus I ...
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Live usb does not recognize SSD: should I use AHCI/NVMe?
I just received a new Dell Latitude E5440 running Windows 11. I'm trying to install Ubuntu but since I'm doing this once every ten years I got a new problem every decade. My problem is Ubuntu, on live ...
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PCIe link speed limit in dmesg when hot reset "PCIe 8.000 Gb/s available PCIe bandwidth, limited by 2.5 GT/s PCIe x4 link at 0000:02:02.0"
When we do PCIe hot reset and meet below log in dmesg.
The PCIe device is PCIe gen4x4 NVME SSD.
duplicate step:
power on, gen4x4
PCIe hot reset,
relink up, found PCIe link in gen1x4, with dmesg show ...
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How Does the Smart Control Parameter #173 from Ubuntu smarctl / gnome-disks for the Samsung MZ-7TY2560 reconcile with Linux HDSentinel Rating of 52%
From the Ubuntu version of HDSentinel, it reports health of 52% because of:
# HDSentinel
Hard Disk Sentinel for LINUX console 0.20.10851 (c) 2023 [email protected]
Start with -r [reportfile] to ...
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DMAR Firmware Bug - No firmware reserved region can cover this RMRR - what does this mean?
I recently installed a new mSATA 512GB SSD into a Lenovo ThinkPad X220 i5 - I installed Xubuntu 22.04 onto it successfully, and I can even boot into Xubuntu and it works fine (I'm even writing this ...
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Ima error communicating tpm, /dev/sda2 issue
There is an error showing while starting system,hp - ubuntu
[0.099473] DMARL [firmware bug]: no firmware reserved region can cover this RMRR [0*00000000bd000000-0*00000000bf1fffff], contact BIOS ...
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How to repair a Master Boot Record (MBR)
1.75Tb INTENSO
My external backup disk, not a dual boot system
mix@mix-Latitude-E5530-vPro:~$ sudo fsck /dev/sdc
fsck from util-linux 2.39.1
e2fsck 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
ext2fs_open2: Bad magic number ...
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Resolving udisk-error-quark 4 when trying to format a disk
I have a 128 GB ssd on an ubuntu 20.04.6 system and am trying to format it using the disk manager provided by the GUI. I am running into the error "udisk-error-quark 4". I have tried using ...
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Dual-boot windows and Ubuntu
I have Ubuntu on SSD, use it as my main OS, but want to install win10 on separate SSD for gaming and to learn how to do it:) Need some help (good videos/articles/guides/solved question) to do it ...
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Dual boot system on SSD won't work after cloning with dd
I have a dual boot system (xubuntu, Windows 10) on a SSD with grub presenting me choices and booting into Linux unless I specify otherwise.
I tried to clone it to a larger SSD (connected via USB and ...
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New ssd and new user
I'm a beginner with Linux and I just bought a new SSD with 1TB and physically installed it on my laptop, in which I`m running Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS.
Aiming to separate work and play environments I ...
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Cannot find boot device
I have installed Ubuntu on my Acer aspire 7750, but when I try to run Ubuntu it says: cannot find boot device. I have checked if my SSD is giving any errors with the smart tools and it says it' s ok. ...
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Struggling to clone an ssd using dd
I despair by the attempt to clone an ssd.
Have two nvme ssds and 2 adapter to mount them via usb, thought a simple dd like
dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc bs=8M count=64000
would clone it, but it doesn't.
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Second nvme drive on expansion card not detected
A computer I'm trying to work on has 4 slot nvme expansion card which plugs into the PCI Express slot. I have two drives to install but it does not seem to recognise either of them. They are both WD ...
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Error Upgrading HDD to SSD
I am having difficuties installing Ubuntu OS in a new SSD upgraded in an old Dell E6530.
the error would always occur when it says "executing curtin install partinioning step" and start ...
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After upgrading to Ubuntu 22.04, new icon with encrypted SSD
I recently upgraded from 20 to 22. I suddenly have an icon on my left bar which says SSD and a lock on it.
When I click it, it asks me for a password for an encrypted drive. It says there 91 GB of ...
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Ownership of external drives
I am using Ubuntu 22.04 on a older hp laptop (intel core i7 with AMD Radeon Topaz - but its using the intel graphics as Topaz does not appear to be supported in 22.04)
I have two external USB drives ...
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Windows won’t boot after installing Ubuntu on an external drive while my main drive was removed from the laptop
So as the title suggests, I removed my main drive from the laptop, preventing any Ubuntu installation files from getting there and also data loss. But joke’s on me because I can no longer boot to ...
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Boot from nvme ssd in Jetson Nano periodically fails
I have followed instructions from this link in order to make my Jetson Nano custom board boot from nvme ssd disk.
It is working most of the time. But, sometimes, after reboot the service responsible ...
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Creating new installation for testnig hardware
My desktop is really running slow.
I am going to run a test to find out if my hardware is the problem, or if there's just too much 'stuff' running on my existing LTS 22.xx.xx SSD system disk.
I bought ...
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`fstrim` service reports strange values
I have two SSD disks on my system and three filesystems:
$ lsblk | grep -v '^loop'
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk /home
sdb 8:16 0 238.5G 0 disk
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ata1: COMRESET failed (errno= -16) primary disk, but device is not broken
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I have a principal SSD with 2 partitions, one with Ubuntu 20 and the other one with Windows. Yesterday, I tried to boot linux but it fails. Windows fails too. I recently updated Windows, but ...
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MOUNT.NTFS consuming almost 100% CPU when sf2 or sfz file loaded on Bitwig Studio 5.0 from internal SSD
MOUNT.NTFS process is consuming almost 100% CPU when sf2 or sfz file is loaded on Bitwig Studio 5.0 from an internal SSD. Not just for files which are big but even for small files like 10 MB, MOUNT....
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How to know if my NVMe SSD needs TRIM
Running Ubuntu 22.04 on my main laptop. I am using 4TB TEAMGROUP MP34 NVMe as my main drive. The file system is ext4.
Yesterday (Nov 16), while downloading some large files (about 300 files, 600GB ...
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Can't access windows 10 partition after update to 23.10
I used to be able to access a separate ssd for windows, but after updating to Ubuntu 23.10 it gives me the following error :
Unable to access location
Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/abdelrahman/...
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Easiest way to make a new internal SSD writable?
I just installed and formatted a new internal SATA SSD for storage in my laptop running Ubuntu 22.04, but I'm not sure how to make it writable. It's formatted ext4, but I can't drag and drop any files ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on a Laptop with i3 12Gen Processor, 4GB RAM and 256GB SSD Hard [duplicate]
If the Ubuntu 22.04LTS OS is installed on a Laptop with i3 12Gen Processor, 4GB RAM and 256GB SSD Hard, will it functioned properly with out any slowness...?
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Installing Ubuntu 23.10 on my new SSD and setting /home to my HDD without erasing
I'm a linux guy and I'm new to storage splitting between a SSD and an HDD so I need help.
I have to add a new 240GB SSD to a system where is already installade a 512GB HDD.
Can I install a new ubuntu ...
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Do I still use the official documentation from seven years ago to partition a 2TB SSD drive for installing Ubuntu 22.04?
Found an official Ubuntu documentation page from seven years ago about how to partition an empty 2TB HDD for installing Ubuntu. It offers the 4-partition scheme of four primaries: /boot (1GB), swap (...
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How can I Dual-Boot 2 internal SSD's (Win/Ubuntu) and have each able to run the other as a VM?
I have a new laptop on the way, it has 1TB SSD *2, 32GB RAM, i9 processor and 4080 GPU.
I want to set up dual boot - win/ubuntu each on their own SSD.
I also want each OS to be able to run the other ...
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How can I access all the Free Space on my drive? I get an error while trying to expand the partition
I'm running ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS on a virtual machine, to which I originally alocated 60 GB of storage. I then realized I needed more space, so I expanded the size of the virtual drive, but once inside ...
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Need help creating partition for new 2.5 inch drive, new user to ubuntu
Installed new 2.5 inch ssd, in disks app in kubuntu says when I am trying to create partition and then format gives 4 options
internal disk use for linux systems only (ext4) -
if I select this one ...
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creating a ramdisk on second installed ssd disk on computer running Linux Kubuntu not as fast as ramdisk on primary ssd boot disk
My new Linux computer was configured with two 2TB ssd drives. It was preloaded with Ubuntu. I loaded Kubuntu on the second ssd drive to try out Kubuntu which is recommended by the primary software ...
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NVMe SSD can't be selected as boot option
I was using my windows pc all and well but suddenly windows stopped working. I have a usb bootable Ubuntu and with this I wanted to extract my files before formatting the SSD completely but for some ...
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unable to detect SSD
Optiplex 3090 Micro
SATA SSD installed in Optiplex
Ubuntu USB installer
The USB installer boots, however the Ubuntu is unable to detect the SSD.
cat /proc/partitions
returns only the USB device: /...
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Installation of Ubuntu 22.04.03 from pendrive is stuck
I'm trying to install ubuntu on an external ssd using a bootable pendrive.
I got to grub, but when I select try or install Ubuntu this is what I see and nothing seems to be changing.a photo showing ...