Storage
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Your SSD has built-in maintenance tools that Windows keeps hidden from you
Windows can maintain your SSD really well, but it sure makes you work for those features
8 things you can do to stretch your current SSD instead of buying a new one
Fix the small things before they snowball into a new purchase
Don't let your old NVMe gather dust: It's the fastest USB stick you own
You already have the expensive part, so put that to good use.
PCIe 5.0 SSDs only benefit two workloads, and gaming isn't one of them
Gen5 drives still don't benefit most users, but make sense for some use cases
I bought a 12,000MB/s SSD for gaming and learned an expensive lesson about bottlenecks
All that bandwidth to shave a second or two off load times?
4 ways you're shortening your SSD's lifespan without realizing it
You might be unknowingly hurting your SSD
Your next storage upgrade probably shouldn’t be another NVMe SSD
You are paying more for speed you won't even notice.
My homelab SSD was silently failing, and one monitoring tool caught it before the other
The quietest failure is the worst kind.
Your old SSD is too small for games, but perfect for things your main drive shouldn't do
You probably don't realize how useful your old SSD can be
Your SSD firmware is probably out of date, and a simple update could speed up everything
The most overlooked tasks in PC maintenance can be the most beneficial ones
Your hard drive never stops spinning, and this buried Windows setting is the reason why
Windows allows spinning down your drive, but hides the setting away
Your motherboard's M.2 heatsink is probably making your SSD temps worse
An improperly installed M.2 heatsink can be worse than not having one
The SATA mode mistake that nearly cost me my entire system
I changed one BIOS setting to boost SSD performance — and my PC refused to boot. Here’s what went wrong.
I learned my 3-year-old SSD was dying the hard way, and the health percentage never warned me
My SSD seemed fine until I checked its real health
Don’t toss that old SATA drive - here’s what to do with it instead
SATA drives desere a better life than living your junk drawer
Your Gen 5 SSD is probably throttling right now, and you have no idea
Don't let it overheat
Your next storage upgrade shouldn't be an SSD — not for the next two years
You have enough SSD storage already — buy HDDs for storage expansion for now
I change these 5 storage settings on every new PC build, and they prevent headaches later
These are must-change settings for the sake of your storage
I stopped thinking about my unused HDDs and SSDs as storage — and you should too
Your old drives are way more useful than you give them credit for
Updating my SSD's firmware fixed a chronic Windows problem that nothing else did
I was used to frequent OS corruption until a firmware update fixed my drive