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How to tell if the Hard Drive is SSD or HDD in Windows 10

You may have recently bought a hard drive, but then you are not confused if the hard drive is SSD or HDD. While the later is known for its longevity, SSDs are known for its speed. On a Windows Computer, […]

Transcend SSD Scope : Maintain a healthy and efficient SSD

One of the most significant advantages of using software and hardware built by the same company is they can deliver the best results. SSD’s from Transcend is widespread, and they happen to have their software for SSD — Transcend SSD […]

What is M.2 SSD? Does your computer need M.2 SSD?

As computers, predominantly the laptops, continue to shrink in size, its components like the storage drives also needed to congruently get smaller. In the past few decades, computer storage has transformed from that typical 2 square meter product to ultra-modern […]

Why should you use Windows 10 with SSD?

When Microsoft rolled out the free upgrade for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1/8 consumers, many were still using mechanical HDD. This trend continues. While Windows 10 works just fine on those mechanical drives, the performance when used with SSD is […]

Optimize and speed up your SSD drive using Tweak-SSD for Windows 10

Did your computer come with one of those fancy SSDs? Although SSDs are meant to be fast and provide fast reading and writing speeds there might be a few times when you might not get the same speed and performance. […]

Stop Spotify from killing the SSD or HDD of your Windows computer

In June 2016 Spotify announced that its user base had crossed active 100 million users per month. This was possible because of its free and ad-supported version as most of the users are not paying any monthly subscription. Unlike its […]

Do you really need an SSD or Solid State Drive?

The SSD or Solid State Drive isn’t exactly a new term. SSDs have been on the market for quite a few years now, but not a lot of people know what they do. Essentially, SSDs are an upgrade over the […]

How to check, disable, enable TRIM support in Windows 10

In this post, we will see how to check if TRIM is enabled on your Windows 10/8/7 PC and how to disable or enable TRIM support in Windows 10, in order to make your SSD or Solid State Drives run at […]

Do you need to defrag SSD? What happens if you defragment a Solid State Drive

Most are quite confused over the questions, whether we should defragment Solid State Drives or SSD’s in Windows 10/8/7 and whether Windows itself defrags them during Automatic Maintenance. But many have these questions – Should I defragment SSD or Solid State Drive? Do you need […]

Hybrid Drive vs SSD vs HDD: A comparison

With Flash storage devices picking up, you would want to know which type of storage device to buy for yourself. Solid State Disk or SSDs are faster than conventional Hard Disk Drives or HDDs, but a lot costly. There is […]

What is a Hybrid Drive? Are they better than HDD, SSD?

This post talks about Hybrid Hard Drives, how they work and what are the benefits,  their features to see if you would want one. Now we know that a cache in a system is generally placed between RAM and CPU […]

Disable Superfetch & Prefetch for SSD in Windows 10/8/7

In this article we will see how Windows 10/8/7 treat Prefetch and SuperFetch on Solid State Drives. Yesterday we saw how Windows treats Defragmentation on Solid State Drives. Before we start, let me make it clear that it t is […]

Enable or Disable Defragmentation for SSD in Windows 10/8/7

In this post we will see how Windows 8/10 treats Defragmentation on Solid State Drives. A Solid State Drive or SSD is a relatively new kind of drive, which consists of an array of flash memory modules similar to a […]

Solid State Drive vs. Hard Disk Drive – What are their advantages & disadvantages?

Heard a lot about a Solid State Drives but want to know what it is and how it differs from a Hard Disk Drive? Then this post is especially for you. What is a Solid State Drive A Solid State […]

Tweak Solid State Drives with SSD Tweaker

A SSD or Solid State Drive is a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to store persistent data. They differ from the traditional hard disk drives in the sense that while the latter are  electromechanical devices containing spinning disks […]