SSD performance issues? Learn how to free space, enable TRIM, optimize settings, and update firmware to speed it up.

As you may have seen yesterday, the issue pertains to the Host Memory Buffer feature (for more details, read our previous article), and the resulting bug means that some SSDs are affected by repeated ...

While it's easy to assume SSDs die early because of user errors like filling the drive too often, writing too much data, ...

Seagate has issued a new firmware update for its FireCuda 530 PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSDs that enhances the DirectStorage capabilities of the drive. This will enable drive owners to utilize the full strength ...

Anyone who’s switched from an HDD to an SSD knows that it can cut your boot time down by a noticeable margin, not to mention ...

But generally SSD firmware doesn't come out often at all, so I figure there's probably a good enough reason to go ahead and install it because they're not just throwing out pointless updates or ...

This post discusses what to do if your SSD is freezing Windows 11 and showing 100% usage. A few users have been experiencing a persistent issue where their computer’s disk usage spikes up to 100% with ...

Whether or not this was intended to be malicious or just an innocent demonstration of what happens if the end-user doesn't provide any cooling, the result is the same. Some readers/viewers took it as ...

Editor's take: In recent years, Microsoft has developed a reputation for rolling out Windows updates that are dangerous, insecure, or simply unreliable. The company was even accused of "killing" solid ...