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 ...

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

CNET editor Dong Ngo shows how you can replace your computer's hard drive with a solid-state drive and be significantly happier with your life. Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with ...

TRIM is an essential feature for an SSD to keep it on top performance and helps the drive to last much longer. Here's how to make sure the feature is enabled on Windows 10. When you purchase through ...

Do you want to check the health of your PC's SSD? Here's how on Windows 11. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On Windows 11, you ...

Terrible news for Windows 10 users – a bug in a recent Windows 10 update may be slowly killing their system's SSD. The result of this is that Windows 10 no longer records the last time an SSD was ...

Nowadays you can use an SSD as cache (64GB max) to boost the transfer rate of a normal hard disk (Sata II or Sata III). This feature can increase the performance of large capacity disks. We'll walk ...

If you are wondering how to partition an SSD in Windows 11/10, you are at the right place. This expert guide will focus on creating the partition in two different ways. We often use an SSD (Solid ...