Formatting an SSD is the best way to boost its performance or clear out any potentially malicious malware whenever you move it to a new system, purchase one second hand, or plan to sell yours on to ...

A storage drive, be it a solid-state drive (SSD) or a hard disk drive (HDD), is one of the most important components of a PC. They're just as crucial as the CPU or the GPU as they're constantly in use ...

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, ...

Though not the classic thumb drive shape, the SC735 is such and we like its appearance, design, as well as the performance -- ...

External SSDs combine portability, durability, and blazing speed, making them ideal for travel and daily backups. Focus on ...

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 ...

In my last installment of How-to: Upgrade the SSD in your Dell Mini 9 I discussed the process of migrating from the stock STEC 16GB SSD (the brand that comes from Dell) to the faster Runcore brand of ...

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 ...

SSDs have replaced hard drives as the de facto standard for most use cases, but they're not perfect. Unlike hard drives, SSDs ...

It has reached a point where you can buy nice big Enterprise SSDs new or with 98+ Percent life left on them. I noticed even though transfer speed specs are much higher on consumer NVME M.2 drives and ...

My current Time Machine drive is a 4TB HDD I've been using for...probably like a decade at this point. It's been very reliable. But being an HDD, it has the obvious downsides of noise and slowness.