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Using an SSD as a USB Data Drive
I have an "old" SSD (250 GB Samsung 840 EVO) available to use as a USB 3 data drive for some not-too volatile data - a Lightroom data catalog that benefits from being fast to read and write. I formatted it and put a 220 GB NTFS partition on it - leaving about 16 GB unallocated.
I put it into a USB 3.0 drive case and plugged it into a USB 3.0 port. It SEEMS to work, but I"m getting some odd behavior. I started Lightroom and everything worked fine, but the partition I created sits there 100% busy. I exited Lightroom and it shut down but the process is still sitting there and the partition is still 100% busy. It's been churning for the last couple hours, although according to the Task Manager there's no data being read or written.....
I"ve got the Samsung Magician software running, but I can't even run the performance benchmark...
Anybody got any ideas about what is likely going on?