Recently, I decided to replace the PC on which I write most of my articles. The aging system was starting to lock up a lot and just wasn't reliable any more. My new computer runs Windows 8.1 and ...

Before starting, ensure the SSD, HDD, and Bootable media are properly plugged into your PC. Now, press the power key of your PC and long-press the designated button to open the BIOS. Select the ...

In this post, we are going to show you how to move Program files from an SSD drive to an HDD drive. SSDs (Solid State Drives) are faster, durable, smaller, and consume less drive. On the other hand, ...

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SSDs are a clearly superior drive format, but they’re more expensive per gigabyte than their platter-based hard disk drives. The natural middle ground is to get an SSD for your Windows installation ...

Erasing an SSD drive not only sanitizes the drive, but recovers lost performance on systems with inefficient garbage collection. We'll show you how to securely erase your SSD drive. Ed Rhee Ed Rhee, a ...

Once a PC enthusiast’s dream storage device, the solid-state drive (SSD) is quickly becoming commonplace in custom PC builds and retail desktops alike. After taking a detailed look at SSD technology, ...

How to add an SSD cache to your Synology NAS (and why you’d want to) Your email has been sent For mass storage, the cost-per-GB ratio of traditional platter hard drives can’t be matched by solid-state ...

It's been more than a decade since the first SSDs started to hit the consumer market and about 10 years since they began arriving at price points that could broadly be called "consumer-friendly." SSDs ...

Even if you own one of the best SSDs, it will fail one day, and that's a fact. Because of how SSDs work, each has a finite number of read and write cycles that it can complete before it dies, and ...

RedShark Replay: Part one of this examination of SSD technology touched on the differences between various types of NAND flash and the impact that SLC, MLC and TLC (3-cell MLC) NAND flash has on ...