Last week, we ran a syndicated piece from The Wirecutter on what the best consumer-grade SSD is for most people to buy. In it, guest author Nathan Edwards issued this caveat about adding third-party ...

What is solid-state storage garbage collection? Solid-state storage garbage collection, or SSD garbage collection, is an automated process by which a solid-state drive (SSD) improves write performance ...

Just as taking out the trash is considered maintenance within your home, garbage collection is also a type of SSD maintenance. In spite of its name, however, garbage collection has nothing to do with ...

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A common concern with the current crop of Solid State Drives is the performance penalty associated with block-rewriting. The flash memory used on today's SSDs is comprised of cells that usually ...

At a time when expensive SSDs are, well, ridiculously expensive, using your best NVMe drive for trivial tasks feels even worse than it ever did before. And yet, many of us clutter those ultra-fast ...

I just replaced the 1TB 7200rpm hdd with in my mid 2012 non-retina MBP with a Crucial M500 960Gb SSD about a month ago and I was wondering about the issue of TRIM. I seen some arguments saying that ...

Solid state storage (SSS) is the performance alternative to mechanical hard disk drives (HDD). Flash memory, thanks to its reduced cost compared to DRAM, has become the primary way the (SSS) is ...

For all the benefits solid state drives offer over traditional platter-based HDDs, one common concern with the current crop of devices (besides the obvious price disadvantage, of course) is how ...