Ssd 980 Pro 500gb

[Astryd Boschee]

Sameissue here. Brand new WD Blue 500gb SSD installed fresh with a new copy of Win 10 (64bit) from DVD disk. I did not clone the SDD drive from another drive. Then, I installed WD Dashboard and it does not detect a WD drive, so I cannot get any info on drive firmware, status, health, etc. Any help appreciated.

Western Digital SSD Dashboard find drive if u make this disc working, copy some file there and than run Western Digital SSD Dashboard. I had same problem with this program and when i use data lifeguard from WD and scanning this disc same time i open western digital SSD and then this program find disc. Hope u understand me cos my english not good

I had this same problem was adding as additional storage and was not showing up under disk management but could see it in my bois. my work around was control panel\system and security\ storage spaces there is a storage pool and I clicked on create a storage space and that started the format process I hope this help someone

If it is showing in bios but not in windows make sure you keep your windows drive as boot priority number one but make the new ssd as boop option two above the non windows manager version of drive 1. Mileage may vary but it worked for me.

Background: I've been trying to help a neighbor rescue a sick HP laptop. I first used Macrium Reflect to backup the disk. I tried to restore the image to the new SSD, but it kept complaining that the image was corrupt although I was able to mount and browse it on another PC.

I currently use Clonezilla live to back up my OpenMediaVault server so I thought I'd give it a try with this laptop. I attached the old hard drive to the laptop using a SATA-USB cable, booted Clonezilla live and performed a device-to-device clone from the old 500gb disk to the new 1tb SSD I had installed in the laptop. It worked. The laptop booted and things were much improved. However, the SSD now appears to be a 500gb drive. It really did clone it! :) I installed a disk partition utility - MiniTool Partition Wizard Free - and looked at the SSD. It sees the SSD as a 1tb drive, but it's not able to resize the C drive partion to fill the SSD.

You can resize the partition from the command line when booted from the Clonezilla drive and also from Windows or Linux, using the System tools. It's an OS or tool thing mostly possibly, but I think if search for the OS or Clonezilla and "change partition size" you can find out about the options.

I backed up the Windows partitions using Macrium Reflect Free, then formatted the SSD. When I restored the partitions to the SSD the remaining 500g was now available. I'm not sure this was a very elegant solution, but it worked.

My Lightroom catalogue is really, really big. It takes more than half of my SSD hard disk of my iMac. It's 500gb. I already tried moving the whole catalogue to an external hard disk, but when i open Lightroom my latest pictures are all gone.

The actual catalog file ends with .lrcat (That is .(DOT)LRCAT). I suspect the actual catalog file is not 500 GigaBytes but the whole folder where the LR catalog is stored could be that size. So look in the main, parent, folder your catalog is in and you should also find a folder called LightroomCatalogName Previews.lrdata. That is were LR stores the PREVIEW of the images you have imported. That complete folder, with many many Subfolder, can take up a lot of hard drive space. With LR CLOSED you can safely DELETE that Previews folder to free up disk space and the next time you start LR it will be recreated and Empty until you browse through your image files. Then LR will recreate standard preview for the image files you have displayed on screen.

You can set how ofter to discard the 1:1 previews in Catalog Settings. As you are probably not always looking at older photos at 1:1 on a regular basis this can save HD space. I have mine set for 30 days and it is working fine.

I've gone through all the usual checks. Samsung Magician is updated. There's no Firmware pending. Motherboard chipset drivers are up to date. I've rebooted several times, ensuring that the PCI settings in BIOS are correct (Gen 4). Nothing makes a difference.

Notable changes to the OS in the timeframes involved would be the Cumulative Update For Windows 10 Version 20H2 which took place on the 12th of December but as you can see on the attached image, the write speed was fine on the 14th of December, so unlikely to be related. Nothing else has changed on the system.

Motherboard is MSI MEG Godlike x570 with latest BIOS and chipset drivers (via AMD directly) running a 5950x CPU. I've also attempted reinstall of the chipset drivers, which has made no difference.

You have to be careful when filling up the 980 Pro because it will do so quicker than you might expect. Samsung's 980 Pro sustained 100GB of writes to its TurboWrite cache at a rate of 4.5 GBps before performance degraded. Once its cache filled, write speed averaged 1 GBps until full, outwriting the competition. Cache recovery is on the slower side, however. While the static 6GB cache recovered immediately, the 'Intelligent' dynamic cache did not recover within a half-hour idle window.

What I've found, so far, is that this issue simply requires the 980 to clear its cache. I have two drives, a 500 and 1TB and both had this problem. The 1TB, after several hours of downloading games and then immediately playing a game, saw write speed drop to 1600mb from what should be about 5000mb. Leaving the PC idle for 5-10 minutes saw the write speed resume to normal.

The 500gb went through several reformat/reimage attempts, all of which failed to rectify the write problem (this was before I knew about the above issue). However, the final attempt which also included a secure erase, then saw me leave the PC idle for a couple of hours. Upon returning, the write speed was back to normal.

So if you find your 980 write speed impacted in this way and evidenced via Samsung Magician performance tests, leave your PC idle for a couple of hours and then retest. You may find the issue has been fixed, without having to waste any of your valuable time reformatting the drive or wasted with Samsung "support".

Any updates from Samsung regarding this issue? Flagship SSD for individual customers and no support?

How can I return my 980 "PRO" as it is out of specification?

Every time I test SSD with Samsung Magician or some other program, the result is the same. Four times slower write speed than stated in the specification. It doesn't matter what time of day it is, whether the drive is empty or full. The result is always the same. write around 1122.99 MB/s to 1719 MB/s

Having latest firmware and issue still exists. So the firmware update is not working. So i think the drives are hardware defective. I buy a 980 PRO because it stands for the best of the best on consumer SSD, but actually it is terrible worse product not worth the name PRO.

Same problem since i bought the 980 Pro two weeks ago, when i plug it in PCIe 3 slot the speed is exactly the half it should be (3500 mb/s seuqential read and writte), so the problem could be with the PCIe 4, i don't know but im seriusly thinkin on plug it in the PCIe 3. Finally, what about the temp? never drops bellow 48 with heatsink, but again when i plug it in the PCIe 3 the temps goes normal, 37.

Hi, I run the latest docker version of nextcloud (exposed via Traefik) on my unraid server and wish to upload about 500gb of videos from a SD card to nextcloud. I tried uploading it via drag and drop (directly from the SD card to my reverse proxied nextcloud domain) but it keeps jumping around on the time remaining (1 hour to 22 hours) and then fails when I leave it for about 10 hours. Is there a better way to upload large amounts of data like this? Thanks in advance

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