Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

I thought TRIM was a Good Thing(™). So I enabled it as soon as the OS started supporting it. However, a recent SNAFU teaches me that TRIM makes data recovery well-nigh impossible. I can't seem to find ...

Having computer problems? Here is how to defragment a hard drive or trim an SSD in Windows so you can get your PC back in ...

So, let's say you don't have TRIM available on your external 500.GB USB3 connected SSD. Let's also say your 500.GB SSD is filled up, but it has 10.GB of over-provisioning. You then delete a 30.GB file ...

With the launch of Windows 7 in the fall of 2009, adopters were treated to many useful new features. But for SSD users, there was one that mattered more than the others: TRIM support. Being a ...

Formatting an SSD is the best way to boost its performance or clear out any potentially malicious malware whenever you move it to a new system, purchase one second hand, or plan to sell yours on to ...

Many people use SSD (Solid State Drive), but they don’t know how to increase SSD performance. Upgrading your computer by adding an SSD is the best thing you can do. SSD is a device that speeds up ...

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ — Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today ...

Have you ever upgraded your PC from one generation to the next and wondered where the performance-boost was to be found? Certainly, our CPU’s continue to get through tasks faster and faster, but when ...

With the release of Windows 10 version 2004, the Windows Defragger has become a mess as it starts to defrag SSD drives too often, perform trim on non-SSD drives, and forgets when it last optimized a ...

Reader Richard Spitzer is concerned about using a third-party SSD drive with his Mac running Yosemite. He writes: I just read an article that Apple is disabling the TRIM function for third-party SSDs ...