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 [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

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 [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

When it comes to connecting one of those blazing fast solid state drives to your computer system you’ll be well advised to make sure that the PC is optimized for SSD storage devices. The core reason for this is to make sure that the top speed that you’ll experience during the first weeks of usage [...]

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Virtual memory is a throwback to Windows of old, when the physical memory available to a computer was severely limited.  Essentially it uses a chunk of space on your computer’s hard disk as a memory swap file.  Unfortunately, Windows has always been terrible at managing this file allowing to dynamically grow and shrink depending on [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

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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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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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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Ed Bott has published a very interesting article today about the benefits of running Windows 7 on a solid state hard disk (SSD).  He wanted to test the real-world benefits, if there are any, of upgrading to an SSD on which to install your copy of Windows. I won’t repeat what the article says here, but it’s [...]

Categories: Hardware

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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