How SSDs work To understand how an SSD works, let's start with two most important parts: the controller and the NAND flash memory.

Meet the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup of the storage world: Hybrid hard drives promise to deliver the speed of an SSD plus the capacity of a mechanical drive. We explain how they work, and evaluate ...

The process of swapping out the original Steam Deck SSD for a new one is relatively easy. Here's how to do it.

After giving Fusion Drive some idle time to work, telling dd to read the entirety of the 100MB files generates significant IO on both the SSD and the HDD—the first megabyte of each file is ...

When Microsoft and Sony first announced that the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 would have very fast SSDs (solid state drives), many wondered whether external hard drive storage would work with ...

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