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 ...

Most SSDs have their own software that can be used to monitor and manage SSD health. For example there is Samsung's Magician, and then the the Crucial Storage Executive for Crucial SSDs. These tools ...

Ever since late last year, a growing number of concerns have been raised surrounding the overall durability of the Samsung 990 PRO SSD. – Representing one of the faster (if not fastest) solid state ...

The report mentions that the entire Samsung 990 Pro lineup (regardless of the capacity) has been affected by this issue. Some of these SSDs are showing over 10% health loss in a matter of days or ...

The endurance of NAND or RAM-based SSDs still hinges on a finite number of program/erase cycles, and certain types of software can burn through them faster than most users expect. From high-churn data ...

If your SSD is struggling, so will your entire PC. There's one thing that most of us have done at least once, and it can lead ...

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 ...

SSD health status · SSD information · free space · startup time ·TRIMCorrespondence · Lifetime prediction · Free software that shows the throughput of reading and writing shows "SSD Life"is. By ...

I have an HP dv6 with a 32GB SSD cache (mSATA). I was having some issues recently with my computer randomly turning off (maybe not so much very recently). I suspected it to be my hard drive, but it ...