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  1. Tony Bensley

    Since Switching To A Solid State Drive (SSD), I’ve Discovered That....

    Of course, as per Murphy's Law, my initial order ended up generating a "Payment Declined" email from Amazon, despite my being 99.9 % certain the payment method was already the correct unexpired one with the sufficient funds attached. Nevertheless, I did go through the motions of updating my...
  2. Tony Bensley

    Since Switching To A Solid State Drive (SSD), I’ve Discovered That....

    Thanks, John! Only being able to run CHKDSK in read-only mode this morning was a huge red flag for me. Thankfully, I had sufficient funds for a larger capacity main drive (480 GB vs 240 GB), which was what I was hoping for! :) CHEERS! :)
  3. Tony Bensley

    Since Switching To A Solid State Drive (SSD), I’ve Discovered That....

    My very limited understanding of NVMe's is they are kind of a hard drive/RAM hybrid? I'm suspecting that wouldn't be functional on my decade old Acer PC Laptop? In any case, I've actually just broke down and ordered this Kuesuny 480GB SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD SATA Drive, as this is in my...
  4. Tony Bensley

    Since Switching To A Solid State Drive (SSD), I’ve Discovered That....

    Right now, I do have enough for the smaller 256gb capacity, but I think I'm going to try and hold off until closer to my Birthday in late April, in case I can get a just a little bit more $ to cover the 480 or 512gb capacity. If I remember correctly, somebody on here told me you don't really...
  5. Tony Bensley

    Since Switching To A Solid State Drive (SSD), I’ve Discovered That....

    OK, bumping my own topic! More than 2 and a half years after my most recent post, and just about 5 years after purchasing my Kingston A400 240 GB SSD, its Health Status now reads as “Bad 0%” as seen below: My question is what might be a reasonable expected time frame between reaching 0% and...
  6. Tony Bensley

    Since Switching To A Solid State Drive (SSD), I’ve Discovered That....

    Recent BSOD issues (Which it turns out, may have been caused by my Windows drivers being out of date) caused me to look into whether my 2 year old SSD might be failing. Two different software apps that I downloaded yesterday displayed its health as "Good." My question and concern relates to the...
  7. Tony Bensley

    Since Switching To A Solid State Drive (SSD), I’ve Discovered That....

    Over time, I definitely did notice a difference after defragging my HDD, although I would go for lengthy periods between defrags. I'm thinking it's a mileage may vary situation, according to how one uses their PC. On Auslogics Disk Defragmenter, my old drive was displayed as over 40%...
  8. Tony Bensley

    Since Switching To A Solid State Drive (SSD), I’ve Discovered That....

    And I'll probably have to remind myself NOT to defrag, every now and then, although it hasn't been a problem, so far! :D CHEERS! :)
  9. Tony Bensley

    Since Switching To A Solid State Drive (SSD), I’ve Discovered That....

    Since Switching To A Solid State Drive (SSD), I’ve Discovered That.... - Windows Boot up and Login is much faster (30 – 35 seconds combined total!) - Apps run far more smoothly, with much fewer “Not Responding” incidents. - Windows 10 clean install had completed within 35...
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