Intel’s Solid-State Drive Toolbox is an SSD management tool for the Windows operating system. The program can be used to run diagnostic scans on the solid state drive, view drive information or run the included management tools. Only the Intel SSD Optimizer was included as a management tool in previous versions of the toolbox (see [...]

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Benchmarks are largely used to compare the performance of items in standardized tests. In computing, they are often used to compare video cards, processors and hard drive performance. Benchmark results are artificial results, which means that they do not necessarily result in a similar real world scenario. Still, it sometimes pays to run benchmarks. An [...]

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The TRIM command has been designed to counter the performance drops of Solid State Drives over time. TRIM basically allows the operating system to notify the SSD about data blocks that are no longer in use so that they can be wiped. Before TRIM, SSDs degraded in performance over time due to the way they [...]

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Solid State Drives (SSD) are becoming increasingly popular and it seems it is only a matter of time until they replace the conventional platter-driven hard drives in computer systems around the world. SSDs work differently than platter-based hard drives, especially when it comes to read and write processes on the drive. The most effective way [...]

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The Paragon Alignment Tool (PAT) is a new program that corrects misalignments of partitions effectively increasing the performance of the hard drives. IT Specialists who are interested in background technical information can download a whitepaper that Paragon has released that explains how the Paragon Alignment Tool manages to increase a drive’s performance. Everyone else may [...]

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If you purchase a Solid Stage Drive (SSD) of the current generation you usually have access to two features that reduce the wear leveling and write amplification of those drives. The first is called the TRIM feature which is currently only supported by Windows 7 and no other Windows operating system. Trim needs to be [...]

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Early adopters are use cutting edge technology which sometimes backfires. If you bought a first or second generation Solid State Drive (SSD) you might have experienced this first hand. SSD performance is fine in the beginning but begins to go down with use to a point where the once fast and accessible cutting edge drive [...]

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If you are like me you like to test new software and hardware. This can sometimes be a curse as it can mean to buy hardware that has not been overly optimized yet so that the computer system suffers thanks to the user’s “I want to have it now” syndrome. This happened when I wanted [...]

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Solid State Drives are build into many computer systems these days. They are build into netbooks for example, are offered by web hosts to run in dedicated servers or purchased by tech enthusiasts. SSD are basically a new generation of hard drives which will eventually replace the existing ones that are build into the majority [...]

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