When it comes to write-intensive components of the OS, the Windows pagefile and how it behaves is a big factor in SSD ...

What happens when a routine security patch cripples both your data recovery tools and, in some cases, the very storage hardware they’re meant to protect? That’s the question facing Windows users this ...

Just last week my 3 year old MBP started freezing on me, and upon reboot it would take a long time finding the System partition and most of the time just give me a grey,blinking 'No Entry' icon. I ...

SanDisk has developed a new file system for flash-based SSD drives, improving random write speeds by up to 100 times. The system, dubbed ExtremeFFS, should be coming to products sometime next year.

(1) For copying, moving, renaming and deleting files, see file manager. (2) The software and method for storing and retrieving files on a disk, SSD or USB drive. A file system is a major component of ...

Please note that for testing purposes we first run each SSD through HD Tach's full disk benchmark, which fills the drive with a single contiguous file and thus forces a block rewrite for every ...