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.

We are slowly witnessing the rise of the solid-state drive (SSD) as it overtakes the traditional hard drive on the market. Prices are falling across the board, and several manufacturers prioritize ...

Overview: Regular firmware updates and TRIM commands improve SSD speed.Avoid unnecessary writes to extend the drive’s ...

Social media has recently been lit up with claims that a recent Windows update is killing SSDs. According to Microsoft, Windows isn’t at fault. In fact, recent reports show that this problem only ...

Do you use Linux machines in your data center? If so, it's probably a good idea to regularly check the health of the SSD drives used on those machines. Here's how to do it. Explore Get the web's best ...

Ever since late last year, a growing number of concerns have been raised surrounding the overall durability of the Samsung 990 PRO SSD. – Representing one of the faster (if not fastest) solid state ...

Most SSDs have their own software that can be used to monitor and manage SSD health. For example there is Samsung's Magician, and then the the Crucial Storage Executive for Crucial SSDs. These tools ...