With the launch of Windows 7 in the fall of 2009, adopters were treated to many useful new features. But for SSD users, there was one that mattered more than the others: TRIM support. Being a ...

Solid state drives use the TRIM command to delete unused data blocks so the space can be used for the computer's storage needs. TRIM helps the SSD avoid performance issues by preparing used data ...

About two years ago, several users of the Samsung 860 EVO SATA SSD started reporting issues on their drives in Linux. Later it was also established that the same or very similar problem also existed ...

To make use of it, the filesystem must be mounted using the discard parameter. Linux distributions usually do not set this kind of configuration automatically during installation [125] and thus the ...

Editor's note: this post was originally published in July of 2008. It's been updated with current information. Is 20 th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk ...

With the launch of Windows 7 in the fall of 2009, adopters were treated to many useful new features. But for SSD users, there was one that mattered more than the others: TRIM support. Being a ...

I have this linux box. Just bought another ssd to install win 10 on it in the same box. Will the win 10 install mess with my linux ssd if i tell it to install on the new (probably unformatted) one?

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 ...