Booting from a USB stick is very helpful for many purposes. However, many factors have to be right for the boot to work ...

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.

TL;DR: Recent reports linked Windows 11 security updates KB5063878 and KB5062660 to SSD failures during large data transfers, especially on DRAM-less drives with Phison controllers. However, after ...

Reports have been circulating for the past few weeks that recent Windows 11 updates (KB5063878 and KB5062660) were causing ...

When left on its default settings, the paging file puts extra stress on your SSD, and over time, reduces its lifespan. The ...

Earlier this month, some Windows 11 users shared that their storage drives stopped working after a recent operating system update, with some early reports saying that Phison-powered drives were hit ...

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We encountered a peculiar issue where the Hard Drive disappeared in the File Explorer in Windows 11/10. Basically, the drive keeps disappearing from time to time without any apparent reason. We ...

A rash of SSD failures have prompted some users to blame a recent Windows Update. Microsoft insist the problem is not its fault.

The company joins memory component supplier Phison in struggling to reproduce the issue. Strangely, Microsoft says it hasn't ...

If a Windows upgrade has ever gone sideways on you, you know how vague and unhelpful the error messages can be. Here are my go-to troubleshooting tricks when that happens.

Microsoft has removed a compatibility hold that prevented devices with integrated cameras from installing Windows 11 24H2 due to a face detection bug causing app freezes. ClickFix, FileFix, fake ...