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Have you been wanting to upgrade your PC by swapping out the hard drive for a super-fast SSD?
If so, you might be reluctant to do so right now because of the relatively low storage capacities that SSDs are famous for.
Well, thanks to recent breakthroughs in solid state storage technologies, those low SSD storage capacities will soon be a thing of the past. [Read more…]
You are probably already aware that a Solid State Drive (SSD) is a LOT faster than even the fastest spinning hard drives, and they are getting cheaper all the time.
But did you know that SSDs vary in speed from model to model?
Well, they do, and they’re getting faster all the time. And SandDisk has one of the fastest consumer grade SSD’s out there, SanDisk Extreme PRO.
Without a doubt, this is one of the best SSDs I have ever tested. [Read more…]
Last July I wrote a post about how Solid State Drives (SSDs) would soon be competing with traditional hard drives in terms of storage capacity and cost, and sure enough, they are starting to do just that.
With that in mind, it appears that SSDs are now ballooning in capacity as well.
The Japanese-based Fixstars Corporation is planning to release a massive SSD in February 2016 that contains a mind-boggling 13TB of storage space.
Yes, you read that right: That’s indeed 13TB – over twice the size of current SSDs. [Read more…]
Of all the upgrades you can make to a modern PC, the one that will provide the most bang for the buck, by far, is replacing your existing hard drive with a Solid State Drive (SSD).
If you’ve never used a computer that has an SSD, you’ll be absolutely amazed at how much faster your PC will boot into the operating system and load your programs.
Samsung’s 840 EVO-Series 250GB SSD (#ad) 
TRIM is a feature in Windows 7 and above that immediately frees up the space on a solid state drive (SSD) that was previously occupied by a deleted file.
This allows Windows to re-use those no longer needed memory locations right away instead of having to search for unused locations elsewhere on the drive.
In a nutshell, having TRIM enabled keeps your SSD from slowing down with regular use, and it makes the drive last longer to boot. [Read more…]