Luckily, there are a few ways to monitor your SSD’s health using SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) built into storage devices and software utilities that interface with it.

Nowadays you can use an SSD as cache (64GB max) to boost the transfer rate of a normal hard disk (Sata II or Sata III). This feature can increase the performance of large capacity disks. We'll walk ...

If you crave high performance storage, solid-state drives (SSDs) offer the best performance for fast boot times and speedy application loading. But if you look at prices per gigabyte, they often cost ...

Hard disk drives (HDDs) are old-school, so if you want the best performance possible you need to be looking at a solid state drive (SSD). But given that there are plethora of manufacturers out there ...

The PlayStation 5's built-in SSD is fast, but you can fill it up fast, too. Using this guide, you'll install a separate M.2 NVMe SSD to increase your game console's storage without taking a speed hit.

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

Having computer problems? Here is how to defragment a hard drive or trim an SSD in Windows so you can get your PC back in working order. The good news is that Windows will mostly take care of this ...