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4 Useful Freeware to Check and Repair Bad Sectors on SSD Drives

It’s frustrating to deal with a computer that is freezing, won’t boot, or has information that is unreadable. There can be any number of issues that could be causing these issues, and determining the cause is not always easy. One of the issues you should check for is the presence of any bad sectors on your hard disk. Bad Sectors Bad sectors occur when a portion of the hard disk can no longer be written to or read. When you store something on the hard drive, the information is saved on more than one sector, which may or may not be adjacent to one another…. Read more

How to Check the Health of SSD in macOS

Storage media of all kinds, SSDs included, is consumable. That mean, eventually, it fails. That’s one reason backups are so important. To keep ahead of the game, macOS offers tools that can check the disk health of your SSD and other attached disks. Related: How to Enable TRIM for 3rd Party SSDs on Mac What Is Disk Health? Spinning HDD drives have a failure curve sometimes described as a “bathtub.” When you first get an HDD, there’s a high chance of failure thanks to DOA units. If the drive spins up properly, then it will likely last for years before suffering a failure based… Read more

SATA vs NVMe: Which One Should You Get for Your SSD

When it comes to hard drives, NVMe has shaken things up in dramatic fashion. Standard SATA SSDs aren’t a big deal anymore, especially not among enthusiasts looking to get as much speed as possible from their machines. In fact, they’re not even considered when maximum performance is concerned. So why has NVMe stolen all the thunder? Is a NVMe drive really necessary? To get to the answer, you’ll first need to step back and understand a bit about SATA and NVMe. What Is SATA? Back in the 90’s computers were filled with these big flat gray cables. They were obnoxious, ugly, and blocked all… Read more

What You Need to Know About NVMe SSD

Storage technology has evolved by leaps and bounds since the dawn of the computer age. Today’s leap forward is NVMe, a storage system that promises to exponentially increase the bandwidth available to storage devices. Here’s what you need to know about NVMe SSDs. What Is NVMe? NVMEe stands for Non-Volatile Memory Express. It’s a storage connection standard that uses the hyper-fast PCI Express bus to communicate with your computer’s CPU instead of the slower SATA bus used by standard drives. Alongside exponential jumps in maximum transfer speeds, NVMe offers transfer parallelization, deep queuing, and system interrupts. For high-end consumer and enterprise storage, NVMe is the… Read more

How to Clone Windows 10 to an SSD

So you bought an SSD drive, and now you want to move your Windows 10 operating system plus all the data to the new drive. While Windows 10 doesn’t make this easy for you, there are ways you can clone and swap the OS install to an SSD. The best part about this process is once it’s done, it’ll make your system faster. Here’s a guide that shows you how to clone the entire Windows OS with all files and settings intact over to the SSD drive. Note: before moving your OS to the SSD drive, make sure you back up your data. This protects… Read more