Do you have to replace your SSD? It's never fun when a storage device decides to play hide and seek, especially when it contains important files that you need, and Windows 11 can't recognize or detect ...

If Diskpart is not recognizing SSD, try plugging your device into a different computer and see if that helps. In case, that didn’t work, you can follow the steps mentioned below. First and foremost, ...

Microsoft’s BitLocker software encryption of for SSDs, which is activated by default in Windows 11 Pro, causes a massive reduction in the performance of storage drives. TomsHardware conducted ...

Windows update 11 24H2 contains some undocumented errors. Users have reported conflicts with certain Western Digital NVMe SSDs. The «blue screen of death» appears to be occurring with the WD Black ...

Installing a new SSD should be a relatively straightforward process, but there’s a couple of nuisances you may run into. Perhaps the biggest offender is that your SSD decides to do a no-call-no-show ...

Problematic August 2025 Windows update KB5063878 is taking on ever greater proportions. Microsoft confirmed (via Windows Latest) that “we’re aware of these reports and are investigating with our ...

Intermittently, only on my data drive, a Samsung EVO 860 SATA SSD, I'm getting the error: "The semaphore timeout period has expired". I also sometimes get the error: "The specified I/O operation on ...

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.

Recently, my Windows PC stubbornly decided to refuse to boot up, and so I turned to the traditional troubleshooting approach that's served me well for a couple of decades: I typed some of the symptoms ...