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.

Apple's iOS 26 update is now rolling out to eligible iPhone models, along with iPadOS 26 and macOS Tahoe. The major operating ...

SSD manufacturers provide utilities that check for firmware updates and monitor your drive’s health. They’re worth installing—and it’s especially ... Pick the right utility based on your SSD ...

Windows Update may not harm your SSD after all, but it isn't the only threat. Here are some things that'll actually kill your ...

Unfinished firmware versions on older SSDs apparently lead to problems under Windows 11. The SSD controller designer Phison confirms that an error can occur with the ...

Almost all modern SSD drives support firmware upgrade via NVM Express commands. For linux you can use https://github.com/linux-nvme/nvme-cli List all the NVMe SSDs ...

A new Windows 11 security update is reportedly causing some gaming SSDs to fail. That's according to new reports online, which suggest that, following the installation of the KB5063878 security update ...

Get 4TB of blistering speed with this excellent deal. B&H Photo just dropped the price on the Samsung 990 Pro 4TB PCIe Gen 4 M.2 solid state drive for $249.99 shipped after a $20 coupon is applied in ...

There's no question that two brands represent the gold standard of SSDs: WD (Western Digital) and Samsung. These drives are reliable, they're fast, and perhaps most importantly, they're not hard to ...

Wear OS 6 is now available for the Galaxy Watch series in the form of Samsung’s One UI 8 beta update. The new software will offer a few changes, including serious health suite features. One UI 8 is ...

Samsung usually reserves a full version increase for One UI for its Android platform update. For example, One UI 5 was released in October 2022 with the Android 13 platform update, and One UI 6 was ...