Luckily, there are a few ways to monitor your SSD’s health using SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) built into storage devices and software utilities that interface with it.

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Your digital life deserves better protection. From photos to work files, here’s how to back up everything with ease.

Western Digital is launching three new WD Black SSD drives today for gamers who want to stay up to speed and get rid of long loading times. The SSDs are being touted as some of the best technical ...

Social media has recently been lit up with claims that a recent Windows update is killing SSDs. According to Microsoft, ...

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A rash of SSD failures have prompted some users to blame a recent Windows Update. Microsoft insist the problem is not its fault.

Surprisingly, the memory component company says none of its customers or partners have seen Windows 11 update KB5063878 ...

We are slowly witnessing the rise of the solid-state drive (SSD) as it overtakes the traditional hard drive on the market. Prices are falling across the board, and several manufacturers prioritize ...

With the release of Windows 10 version 2004, the Windows Defragger has become a mess as it starts to defrag SSD drives too often, perform trim on non-SSD drives, and forgets when it last optimized a ...