Solid State Drives are slowly becoming the new mainstream storage devices. It may still take a few years before they replace platter based hard drives but it will happen eventually. Currently both price and storage volume are not competitive, but this will change in the future. PC users who followed SSDs from the very beginning [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Intel SSD Toolbox 3 Released
With the rise of Solid State Drives came software from hardware manufacturers to manage and control those drives in a computing environment. Intel’s SSD Toolbox has recently been released in version 3. We have covered both the initial Intel Solid State Drive (SSD) Toolbox release and Intel Solid-State Drive Toolbox 2 release before. Lets see [...]
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SSD Boost Manager, Swap Apps, Games Between HDDs and SSDs
Probably the biggest issue that Solid State Driver owners face, besides the exorbitant price to Gigabyte ratio is the small amount of space compared to conventional hard drives. This can mean a lot of juggling around of data to make sure that the Solid State Drives don’t drop below the 10% free space barrier, as [...]
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Solid State Drives And Encryption, A No-Go?
Modern Solid State Drives are faster than their platter-driven brethren. They do have additional advantages like being completely silent when operating and better shock proof. The disadvantages are the high price per Gigabyte of storage space and unreliability when it comes to erasing or deleting data from the storage media. Especially the latter point can [...]
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Samsung SSD Magician Tool
Solid State Drives (SSD) are faster, silent, more expensive and sometimes more complicated to maintain than conventional platter based hard drives. Especially the maintenance of the drive is a factor that may keep users away from purchasing a drive, or frustrated if they find out that their SSD does not support TRIM or garbage collection. [...]
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Intel Solid-State Drive Toolbox 2, Now With System Optimizer, Secure Erase
Solid State Drives (SSD) are different from conventional platter based hard drives in several key aspects. The drives do not need to be defragmented for instance. The operating system needs to be configured slightly different as well if the SSD is used as the primary hard drive. Most solid state drive manufacturers offer tools to [...]
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Make Sure Your SSD Is Connected Correctly
One of the main advantages of Solid State Drives (SSD) is their speed compared to conventional platter-based hard drives. They should in theory speed up reading and writing processes on the operating system. Sometimes however SSD seem to run at a slower than advertised speed with users reporting all kinds of problems associated like freezes [...]
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Intel Data Migration Software
I have reviewed the data migration software Paragon Migrate OS To SSD just a few days ago. The software allows a user to migrate from one hard drive to a solid state drive even if the storage space of the SSD is less than the storage space on the source hard drive. It is still [...]
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Paragon Migrate OS to SSD [Early Adopter]
Solid State Drives are becoming increasingly popular, with prices slowly dropping and capacities increasing. It will take another few years before these new storage devices will replace conventional hard drives on most computer systems. Still, some early adopters cannot resist the temptation and buy SSDs, despite their price tag and relatively low storage capacities. Sometimes, [...]