Solid-state drives have quietly become the default storage in laptops, desktops, and consoles, yet the way they work means ...

You've likely heard before that you should never defragment your SSD. Conventional wisdom says not only do solid state drives not need defragging, doing so would cause unnecessary writes to the drive.

I recently moved to W8.1 and in the process of searching for defrag information about HDDs, I came across this mention of a SSD defrag bug in W8.1. Yes, it appears it still is. I just did a clean ...

Question: I’ve been using Windows forever and as part of my annual device cleanup process, I defragment the hard drive. That supposedly makes it run faster. But do I need to do that with a new SSD ...

Korean researchers have identified the cause of performance degradation when reading fragmented files on Solid-State Drives (SSDs) and discovered a fundamental technique to resolve the issue.

For decades, desktop and laptop owners have been told to defragment their hard drives to get the best performance, especially on Windows-based PCs. Defragging reorganizes the drive so the operating ...

Defragmenting your hard drive can be good or bad for the device depending on what kind of hard drive you're using. Generally, you want to regularly defragment a mechanical Hard Disk Drive and avoid ...

Your daily habits could be silently killing your computer's storage drive. Discover the 5 dangerous mistakes you need to stop making right now.

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 ...

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

With the release of Windows 10 version 2004, the Windows Defragger has become a mess as it starts to defrag SSD drives too often, perform trim on non-SSD drives, and forgets when it last optimized a ...