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.

Borderlands 4 players are encountering a frustrating "FAILED TO SAVE" error, causing loss of progress, gear, and levels. This issue may stem from temporary glitches, corrupted game files, platform ...

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If your SSD doesn’t have a heatsink, you should get one, especially if you’re running a PCIe Gen 4 or PCIe Gen 5 SSD. A ...

Are you frustrated when encountering AppVIsvSubsystems64.dll error in MS Office? This can be frustrating as it prevents apps like Word, Excel, or Outlook from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reports had suggested Windows 11 security updates were behind some recent SSD issues. Reports had suggested Windows 11 security updates were behind some recent SSD issues. is a senior editor and ...

Is a Recent Windows Update Responsible for SSD Failures? Microsoft Has an Answer Your email has been sent Some Windows 11 users are blaming a recent patch for causing data corruption and hardware ...

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 ...

If you have a Windows Update error 0x80070002 on your system, buggy battery indicator, crashing Settings app, and other ...

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 ...