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.

Even with a top-tier SSD, eventual failure is inevitable. SSDs operate with a limited number of read and write cycles, and each cycle degrades the NAND flash memory. Over time, this wear will ...

Two years ago there was a lot of discussion about the endurance of SSDs, failure rates and so on. OCZ at the time had to fight off a bit of a reputation and claimed that their SSDs had extremely low ...

Intels eerste generatie ssd's gooide hoge ogen, met prima prestaties, een hoge mate van betrouwbaarheid en een concurrerende prijs. De tweede generatie, met 34nm-geheugen, zorgde voor een verdere ...

Let's do a synthetic test with Sandra, just to see if we can match the results we've seen in HD Tach. What SANDRA also does (important for an HDD) is to test at several positions of the HD. See, at ...

What kind of SSD do you actually need for gaming? Today we'll answer that question through a series of benchmarks. Should you go all out on the latest PCIe 5.0 technology, is PCIe 3.0 still sufficient ...