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.

Most SSDs have their own software that can be used to monitor and manage SSD health. For example there is Samsung's Magician, and then the the Crucial Storage Executive for Crucial SSDs. These tools ...

A storage drive, be it a solid-state drive (SSD) or a hard disk drive (HDD), is one of the most important components of a PC. They're just as crucial as the CPU or the GPU as they're constantly in use ...

Overview: Regular firmware updates and TRIM commands improve SSD speed.Avoid unnecessary writes to extend the drive’s ...

Even with a top-tier SSD, eventual failure is inevitable. SSDs operate with a limited number of read and write cycles, and each cycle degrades the NAND flash memory. Over time, this wear will ...