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.

Blue Screen or BSOD is an infamous error on Windows computers. No one wants to see this error on their computer. When the Windows OS reaches a critical condition ...

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 ...

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The next-gen consoles will use SSD technology rather than a hard drive (HDD) to store your game installs. What is the main difference between SSD vs HDD? That is easy. An SSD, a solid state drive, is ...

Of all the PC components, few require more care and attention than a hard drive. We’ve all heard the admonishments to defragment drives, and clean up junk files to keep all our 1s and 0s sparkling. No ...

Let's do a synthetic test with Sandra, just to see if we can match the results we've seen in HD Tach. What SANDRA also does (important for an HDD) is to test at several positions of the HD. See, at ...

When shopping for an SSD it’s important to know which form-factor fits your system. SSDs come in a bunch of shapes and sizes.

The hardware tinkerers at Tested installed three different hard drives in a PlayStation 4 to uncover the benefits of each. In the nine-minute video above, you'll see Tested pit the PS4's standard 500 ...