I've been looking around at all the forums an am yet to find a success story on this, I must admit if I'd known it was a hdd I may have just gone with the 16gb.
Has anyone out there made the swap to SSD?
My thoughts and I'm no expert would be to try and install on the SSD then swap out in the shield just to get it booted up and go from there but if was that simple better people than me would have done so already...
Any ideas?
I doubt the board has a transitional SATA header. The built in HDD might be soldered or use some other method of power and data connection.
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Hey guys
my 250Gb HDD is full,that's the main HDD on my pc for years,and now it's full
so I downloaded windows 8,and installed it on my other HDD,it's 500GB just to try it
I would like to know if I can install the two HDD's so that I don't have to replace the HDD's everytime I want to use the windows 8?
And btw I don't use the 500Gb HDD because I think that it have bad sectors,how can I really confirm (or fix this)?
omar_killer said:
Hey guys
my 250Gb HDD is full,that's the main HDD on my pc for years,and now it's full
so I downloaded windows 8,and installed it on my other HDD,it's 500GB just to try it
I would like to know if I can install the two HDD's so that I don't have to replace the HDD's everytime I want to use the windows 8?
And btw I don't use the 500Gb HDD because I think that it have bad sectors,how can I really confirm (or fix this)?
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If it has bad sectors, throw it away.
You can put two, three, or even 10 harddrives in one machine, if it has the capacity. Turning off ide/sata/scsi channels in the bios is a faily easy way to decide which os to boot.
Bootloaders are not something I recommend to folks without prior harddrive swapping experience.
I've had my Toshiba Satellite C660-15R since 2010 and I'm not sure if it's time to replace the 320GB Hitachi 10080PBN200CSHPN HDD that was Installed by Toshiba, as Ubuntu Linux says the HDD has 1 Bad Sector back when I was using Ubuntu, but using Segate Sea Tools for Windows its passed all tests.
I'm unsure if it would be wise to replace the HDD based on its age, or stick with it due to the test results from Sea Tools for Windows?
Roland
Id say keep it, 1 bad sector equates to a negligible amount of data (handful of Mb) and isn't necessarily an indicator that the disk is dying, it could have just been scratched if the laptop moved during a write operation ir anything.
It may fail soon, it may not, I have an 80gb drive as a secondary in my desktop which is date stamped as 2003, my old laptops first hard drive lasted just 2 years.
Only reason I would swap the laptop in that machine if the disk is still working is as an upgrade to a bigger size or an SSD or something and that may not even be required
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Id say keep it, 1 bad sector equates to a negligible amount of data (handful of Mb) and isn't necessarily an indicator that the disk is dying, it could have just been scratched if the laptop moved during a write operation ir anything.
It may fail soon, it may not, I have an 80gb drive as a secondary in my desktop which is date stamped as 2003, my old laptops first hard drive lasted just 2 years.
Only reason I would swap the laptop in that machine if the disk is still working is as an upgrade to a bigger size or an SSD or something and that may not even be required
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Ok thanks.
I've swapped it out for a 1TB HDD, since I've been upgrading the Wifi Card and adding a new battery when it arrives, going to use the old drive in a USB caddy attached to the Router as a backup drive.land
It's also given me a reason to have a fresh start and sort out what needs to be on my HDD and what can go on the Network drive.
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I am reading up about optimizing of SSD drives and I'm seeing that Windows 8 is supposed to be pretty good with automatically deciding whether to optimize or defragment drives based on what they are (SSD vs HDD). But I have a problem. I just bought an SSD but under the Optimization menu it is showing up as a Hard Drive.
It's a brand new Samsung 840 EVO 500GB and I'm going to be using it solely for music and movies as an external drive. I also bought an Anker external SATA III to USB 3.0 enclosure. I have the drive recognized and everything under the File Explorer but I'm just a little nervous that it's listed as a Hard Drive under the Optimization menu. How can I get Windows to see that it's in fact an SSD?
Hmm. Leaving aside the fact that "solely for music and movies" is an absurdly pointless waste of an SSD (those are large, contiguous, non-latency-sensitive, moderate-to-low bandwidth files; in other words they are everything that a traditional magnetic disk is good at and an SSD is not) I would guess that the issue lies in the SATA3-USB3 conversion. If there's any drivers available for that enclosure specifically, you could try installing them (though they really ought to have installed automatically). Beyond that... does Windows even schedule automatic "optimization" of removable drives (presumably it *does* see your drive as removable)?
If I were looking for a portable media drive, I'd frankly just return that one and use the money to buy a traditional 2.5" HDD with 2-4x the storage capacity. There's literally not a single reason I can think of to use an SSD there unless you plan on dropping the drive a lot while it's in use (modern laptop drives will lock their heads if they sense a sudden drop, so even there the SSD has only a small advantage). Magnetic storage will give you much better capacity and probably last longer, too.
I got the SSD on a really good sale and I'm definitely not returning it, the price I paid for it was absolutely bonkers and I'd be foolish to return it. I figured I'd buy it because I never know when I'm going to see it for the cheap again. I got it for 150 bucks CAD. So when I get a bigger drive in the future I will have an SSD
The software that came with the SSD for some reason won't install and the Samsung software won't recognize the SSD. Windows saw it right away as a portable media drive and I went into disk management, created an MBR volume and formatted it under NTFS. This was the only solution because many other users of this SSD have had the same problems as me - it straight up won't be recognized by the software, presumably probably because of the USB 3 connection. That's ok though because the software is optional. This was suggested as a solution and it works perfectly, now I'm just worried about the drive being falsely defragmented by Windows.
Ah. Well, you could try installing the software using Compatibility Mode (maybe try Win7 first?) but it sounds like, whether or not the drive is in fact a great deal, it has lousy firmware. Unless you can flash an update to it that fixes the problem, your best bet would simply be to try making sure Windows never attempts to "optimize" the drive.
Of course, unless you remove or edit the files on there, there won't be any fragmentation anyhow. So attempting defrag probably wouldn't do anything in any case. Similarly, if you aren't deleting files then you don't need to TRIM their data, so the usual optimizations for SSDs don't matter much either. You might want to see if you can disable access-time updating for the drive though, as that's very wasteful on an SSD (you can globally disable access timestamps using fsutil, but I don't know if you can do so for a single drive on Windows).
Hi,
In the next days I will buy a Nvidia TV shield but I'm wondering if I can use my current HDD-disks.
For the moment I'm using a Mede8er 800 with an internal HDD ( 1 TB) and I do have an external HDD from 1 TB. (1ayba2 seagate wireless plus)
Can I use them in combination with the Nvidia?
You can swap out the hard drive, but if it's not the exact same size you need to do some command line work to get it to be compatible. Here is a thread with enough information to make you sorry you asked! https://forum.xda-developers.com/shield-tv/development/nvidia-shield-tv-ssd-t3402580
I'm getting a 500gb SSD to replace (adapt) my 16gb internal storage. It's my understanding that the Shield encrypts the drive and so it can't be accessed otherwise. Meaning you pretty much just leave it hooked to the Shield all of the time. But what about trim and leveling?
Also I presume since it's USB-3 that performance isn't an issue and even a cheap ssd will work fine. Planning on using Adata su-800 but does it matter to have dram for example?
And for the second external drive I use just for media, does anyone know how much power the usb outlets put out? Am thinking about getting a 2.5" 5tb (mechanical & almost entirely for videos) and wondering if the usb power is enough to handle these type of drives. I think these drives require the better part of one amp to operate properly. Also can this second drive be removed safely without shutting down the Shield?
As-long as the second drive is not adopted it should be fine and dandy, just ensure that you eject it from the storage menu. I'll let someone else who knows more about adopted storage and USB power chime in for the rest
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