Remember how we told you that a bug in Windows 10's built-in drive optimization tool could be crippling your solid state drive (SSD)? Well, good news folks—the latest cumulative update (this month's ...

Most SSD users are aware that TRIM is an essential Windows command that prolongs SSD life and ensures that their SSDs stay speedy. TRIM kicks-in after a file deletion in Windows and notifies the SSD ...

Several years ago, we published our first SSD Optimization Guide for Windows 7, which was very popular among our readers. At the time, SSDs, or Solid State Drives, were still a relatively new product ...

So I hope most of you guys and gals have by this time switched your OS boot drive to a SSD, or Solid State Drive. One of the big things that comes with switching to something like that is ensuring ...

SSDをメインストレージとするPC環境が増えているが、SSDには使用時間とともに速度が低下する性質があり、これを回避するのがTrimコマンドだ。Windows 10では特に意識する必要はないが、Windows 10 Insider Previewで興味深い変化が加わった。今回は少々難しくなるが ...

Intel SSD Optimizer and firmware upgrade work with Windows 7's 'Trim' tools to increase performance on Intel's X25-M SSDs by 40 percent Intel announced the availability of a tool kit to optimize the ...

SSD Tweaker & Tweak-SSD are free SSD optimization tools for Windows 11/10 that let you tweak, optimize and speed up your Solid State Drive by configuring best settings and reducing read and write ...

Hard drives need defragmentation to ensure pieces of data are stored in contiguous cells, preventing longer seek times. SSDs, on the other hand, store data a bit differently than HDDs. Flash storage ...

The latest Windows 10 update appears to be running the automatic hard drive optimization process more often than it needs to. While this is a necessary part of a hard drive’s upkeep, and letting ...

Mac users looking to tweak their MacBook, iMac, or Pro macOS machines may be interested in a new performance tool which is now available called Sensei. Created by developer Oskar Groth, Sensei is ...

I just replaced the 1TB 7200rpm hdd with in my mid 2012 non-retina MBP with a Crucial M500 960Gb SSD about a month ago and I was wondering about the issue of TRIM. I seen some arguments saying that ...