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.

In the era of floppy disks and early operating systems like CP/M and MS-DOS, A: and B: were reserved for floppy disk drives, ...

Maybe your gaming laptop doesn’t have enough storage. Or you simply want an easy way to make your game library portable. An external SSD can fix both of these issues (and more) by providing an easy ...

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

Microsoft has found no link between the August 2025 KB5063878 security update and customer reports of failure and data corruption issues affecting solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs) ...

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

Recap: Reports suggest that a Windows 11 security update released in early August may be the cause of HDD and SSD failures during large data transfers. However, the extent of the issue remains unclear ...

If you need to migrate your data or are looking to keep a backup handy, you can clone your data drive. Here's how I did it without forking over any cash. Do you need to migrate your Windows or macOS ...

Microsoft has responded to reports that a recent Windows 11 security update has caused gaming SSDs to fail. According to the company, a "thorough investigation" left the company in no doubt that its ...

A rare firmware error, not the Windows update, was found to cause SSDs to vanish on some Windows 11 PCs.(Unsplash) A number of Windows 11 users have been left scratching their heads after solid-state ...