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...
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