So one thing that shortens the life if an SSD is the erasing and writing to its memory cells, but the other issue is heat. Higher temperatures cause all sorts of havoc with SSD memory. This is why the ...

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 ...

SSDs have replaced hard drives as the de facto standard for most use cases, but they're not perfect. Unlike hard drives, SSDs have a fixed lifespan due to the nature of flash storage. This lifespan is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even if you own one of the best SSDs, it will fail one day, and that's a fact. Because of how SSDs work, each has a finite number of read and write cycles that it can complete before it dies, and ...

The report mentions that the entire Samsung 990 Pro lineup (regardless of the capacity) has been affected by this issue. Some of these SSDs are showing over 10% health loss in a matter of days or ...

SSD health status · SSD information · free space · startup time ·TRIMCorrespondence · Lifetime prediction · Free software that shows the throughput of reading and writing shows "SSD Life"is. By ...

I have an HP dv6 with a 32GB SSD cache (mSATA). I was having some issues recently with my computer randomly turning off (maybe not so much very recently). I suspected it to be my hard drive, but it ...