HELP! Corel Draw starts fine on my computer, but when I open a file it takes 2 minutes. Then successive files open just fine. Any idea? I am running Windows 10 and I have a brand new laptop.
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There are different kinds of hard disc drives. The old traditional ones have spinning platters. Solid state hard disc drives have no moving parts; they're just a bunch of computer chips designed to store data. The first generations of solid state hard discs were bigger in physical size and used eSATA connections. The newer generations of solid state hard disc drives (such as M.2 NVMe solid state drives) don't use eSATA anymore. They plug directly into the PCI Express bus and run much much faster. An M.2 SSD is smaller than a stick of chewing gum.Modern notebook computers will have one or more hard disc bays for M.2 SSDs. The M.2 connections have to be built into the notebook's mother board. If an old notebook doesn't have any M.2 slots then it can't use them.But this should be a non-issue for you based on an earlier post where you said your notebook had an 11th gen Core i7 CPU. That means the notebook must be pretty new. I would be very shocked if the primary hard disc in your notebook wasn't a M.2 NVMe SSD. Depending on the notebook model it probably has a second drive may for an additional M.2 SSD to be added later.M.2 SSDs are great and all. But not everything is perfect. I recently ordered a 2 terabyte Samsung 980 PRO SSD for the second drive bay in my Alienware X17 notebook. I send the drive back for a refund the same day it arrived because the thing didn't work properly. Intel's RST drivers created a conflict with that model of SSD. Windows File Explorer would lock up when accessing the drive. Samsung's Magician software refused to "see" the drive. Apparently this is a months-old issue and there are no signs Intel or Samsung intend to do anything to solve the problem. I don't even know why the Intel RST garbage is in there. An NVMe SSD is not "Optane" memory. So it's yet another pointlessly stupid situation.
I've been fortunate not to have any SSD issues except when the system was first put on line after a reboot it was slow to see the drives through explorer. In a short while that disappeared and it's really responsive.
The little adventure I had has made me gun-shy about ordering another Gen4 SSD. Obviously I'll look for another product line besides Samsung. Maybe a Western Digital Black drive, something from Crucial, I don't know. I'll just have to read some product reviews and do a little more research.The situation is pretty freaking annoying. There were some good Black Friday deals and I had Dell Rewards points about to expire. Basically I was getting a 2 TB SSD for a pretty healthy discount. Now I'm inclined to wait for the Gen4 drives to just fall in price on their own over time, particularly as new Gen5 drives arrive.
Did you ever get a solution to the problem? It is the same problem for me...