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5 stories tagged ssd, newest first.

Screenshot of chalmovsky.com: Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall

Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall (chalmovsky.com)

386 points by chalmovsky 7 months ago | 211 comments

A blog post ranting about Samsung's Magician SSD utility and documenting the 18-step process, including two Recovery Mode reboots, needed to uninstall it.

samsung-magician samsung ssd uninstall

Screenshot of investors.micron.com: Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business

Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business (investors.micron.com)

691 points by simlevesque 10 months ago | 343 comments

Micron investor relations press release announcing the company's exit from its Crucial-branded consumer memory and storage business.

micron crucial memory ssd

Screenshot of xda-developers.com: Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data

Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data (xda-developers.com)

710 points by amichail 11 months ago | 285 comments

XDA Developers article explaining that SSDs left unpowered for long periods gradually lose stored data due to charge leakage in NAND flash.

ssd data-retention nand-flash storage

Screenshot of databasearchitects.blogspot.com: SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud

SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

550 points by greghn 2 years ago | 370 comments

Database Architects blog post arguing that local SSD throughput has exploded with PCIe 5.0 while cloud instance storage performance has stagnated.

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Screenshot of blog.jgc.org: Retrieving 1TB of data from a faulty drive with the help of woodworking tools

Retrieving 1TB of data from a faulty drive with the help of woodworking tools (blog.jgc.org)

485 points by jgrahamc 3 years ago | 166 comments

John Graham-Cumming's blog post on recovering 1TB of data from a failed Seagate Firecuda 530 SSD in his gaming PC, using woodworking tools.

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#ssd on Hacker News

Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall(chalmovsky.com)

Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business(investors.micron.com)

Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data(xda-developers.com)

SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

Retrieving 1TB of data from a faulty drive with the help of woodworking tools(blog.jgc.org)

Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall (chalmovsky.com)

Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business (investors.micron.com)

Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data (xda-developers.com)

SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

Retrieving 1TB of data from a faulty drive with the help of woodworking tools (blog.jgc.org)