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How to Choose the Right SSD to Buy
Whether you’re upgrading your PC or building a new one altogether, understanding how to choose between the various types of SSDs out there can be a bit confusing. Luckily, it’s actually a lot simpler than it seems and depends mostly on what your hardware will support. In this article, I’ll break down the different form…
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This Windows 10 ‘Drive Optimisation’ Bug Could Harm Your Drive
The latest Windows 10 update appears to be running the automatic hard drive optimisation process more often than it needs to. While this is a necessary part of a hard drive’s upkeep, and letting Windows run the TRIM command on your SSD never hurts, excessively defragmenting the drive is generally unnecessary and can affect an…
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Rapid Review: Samsung Portable SSD T5
Portable hard drives may seem passe in the era of cheap and convenient cloud storage but I still find one essential. Whether that’s for carrying a few movies and TV shows while I travel, making it easy to share large files quickly, or backing up critical data, a decent external hard drive is handy. Samsung’s…
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How To Switch To Software Encryption On Your Vulnerable Solid-State Drive
Researchers at the Netherland’s Radboud University have uncovered serious security issues with several solid-state drives that use hardware-based encryption—vulnerabilities. This could allow an attacker to access a drive’s “encrypted” contents without needing the password that decrypts it.