Any hard drive is bound to fail eventually. We show you how to check a drive's health, using SMART, chkdsk, and other tools at your disposal.

Think your hard drive might be failing? Here’s how to test your SSD or HDD and catch problems early.

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Running a solid state drive on your desktop computer has several advantages over using a traditional hard drive. Your computer boots faster, shuts down much more quickly and programs open faster.

I Can't Run a Disk Check on an External Hard Drive. Making sure your company's hard drives are free of errors helps to protect against the loss of important data.

But whether that's an external drive used on a Mac, a hard drive inside a NAS, or an SSD inside a Windows PC, our storage drives won't last forever, even if we want our data to.

Hard drives are destined to fail, resulting in lost data. Regular maintenance with a Windows 11 utility may prevent a major catastrophe.