One of the things a thin and light laptop needs to qualify as an ultrabook is a solid state disk. These SSDs are faster than traditional hard drives, and they use less power and generate less heat.

AMD's SSD caching technology dubbed StoreMI has received its latest update today. The new version 2.1.0.205 brings Windows 11 support which means it may work better with Ryzen-based Windows 11 PCs.

A good toolbox for your storage drive is something that’s worth just as much as the drive itself and Crucial has just released an upgrade to their software, the Storage Executive tool. The new version ...

Several years ago, we published our first SSD Optimization Guide for Windows 7, which was very popular among our readers. At the time, SSDs, or Solid State Drives, were still a relatively new product ...

The Windows 7 boot time test starts when the OS loading screen appears and ends when the Windows desktop is fully loaded. On the first run the Crucial Adrenaline performed much like the Western ...

Samsung has officially announced plans to acquire Nvelo, a start-up which specialises in caching software for small secondary solid-state drives (SSDs) in laptops and desktops. The small Californian ...

It's not always the drive, it's also what controls it.

Most SSD slowdowns are just missed settings and neglected maintenance.

PCMark vantage has a very good test suite to benchmark storage performance. The software will look at tasks you normally perform with your PC and will try to measure what kind of an effect that has on ...