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Ran Crystal DiskInfo, Also scanned the drive for errors. Everything appears to be normal. The transfer speed without caching makes the drive useless when transferring GBs of data at 10 MB a second. I always eject the drives after use to prevent data loss. Speeds were measured during transfer by...

Problem solved. Enabled Write-Caching Speeds went through the roof :-) Peak 200+ Average ~100

I've got: Seagate 1TB STGX1000400 Maxone 500GB Both write with a transfer speed of 90-122 Just got a Seagate STKM1000400 which peak @32MB/s dropping to 16-17, And sometimes as low 10. All 3 drives are connected using the same cable and port.

I'm going to install Windows 11 on my second system (SSD) and would like to install Windows 10 (HDD) for backword compatablity. My aim is to remove the HDD and install Windows 11 on the SSD, Vice versa for Windows 10. When booting i can use F7 to select which drive to boot from. Reason for...

@Ghot Seagate: "Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) functionality is a hardware-level feature where data is always encrypted before being written to the platters. You cannot actually disable the encryption itself" So if i Done a factory reset on my Seagte HDD encryption would continue? Other...

Iv'e got 2 2TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III HDDs Model: ST2000DM008 When i get the PSID number how can i disable SED?

@MiniTool For the SSD: (OS) i use Acronis, And usually store the image on the HDD and an external drive For the HDD: Files i want to keep i burn to DVD. Prefer physical backup (DVD) over external drive's (which can fail).

@gunrunnerjohn Always have backup's, But i've just got thing's how i want them. Just got a second computer with a 2TB drive on that. I'll wait until the second computer is running (Win 11) on SSD, And play the 2TB HDD which is blank on the new computer.

@jumaji I no longer have the link's to the site's i looked on. Nothing has happened, It just a 'feature' that has been added to HDD's. I decided to keep the drive as it is for now, There would be a lot of work involved in backing up first, Also a couple of site's mentioned problems with the...

Done a bit more research And the HDD has SED (Self-Encrypting Drive). I've read that it is possible to deactivate this feature. how could i deactivate it?

I've got a 500GB SSD and a 2TB HDD for my files. I deleted a file on my HDD and found nearly all files were unrecoverable. How can i disable TRIM on my HDD?

Not sure which step it was but i noticed something different after i ran one of the test's. Windows update is now up and running again. Thank's for your help.

I turned my page file off, Surprised to see it back on again. Device manufacturer: ASMT Device model: 2115 Works ok my Linux laptops, But Windows 11 will not mount it for more than a few seconds.

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