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.

Do you need a cooler for your M.2 NVMe SSD? The short answer is yes, unless your SSD is operating within its defined ...

We all love moving into new generations of power and performance on our PCs. Going from DDR4 to DDR5, PCIe 4 to PCIe 5, and so forth is always exciting. However, there's always one big drawback, and ...

If you have a newer Mac, it likely uses a speedy solid-state drive to store files, apps, music, videos, and a lot of other important stuff. But there’s one thing you may not know about SSDs: They wear ...

We monitor the SSD temperature during our test benchmarks stress tests with a high-stress workload. When testing solid-state drives (SSDs), we use either the heatsink that comes with the SSD, if it ...

The transition from PCIe Gen4 to PCIe Gen5 storage has led to an impressive leap in overall read and write speeds - where now sequential read speeds in the region of 10 to 12GB/s are not uncommon. But ...