The folks at Backblaze, a cloud storage and data backup company located in San Mateo, California, published a report comparing the failure rates of solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs ...

If you find yourself in the enviable position of getting new hardware for your gaming PC, it's worth taking the time to make sure you’re getting components that are going to serve you well. When it ...

For those of us looking to upgrade our PCs, time isn’t on our side. Over the course of the year, prices have gone up on components, including SSDs…and reports say they’re set to rise further. (I miss ...

If you are building a network attached storage system or purchasing one off-the-shelf and need to equip it with storage drives you might be considering SSD vs HDD. What the differences are between ...

As with most storage mediums, the life of a solid state drive (SSD) can be really long, disappointingly short, or somewhere in between. That's not exactly helpful info. So how reliable are SSDs really ...

Just merely on a general consumer level, there are many excellent reasons why you should install your Windows operating system on a solid state drive (SSD). Not only are they, generally speaking, ...

Forward-looking: Do you still use an HDD as the primary boot drive for your PC? While there are some exceptions, most people today prefer a much speedier SSD for booting into the OS, which could be a ...

A new report says that OEMs have said that Microsoft is pushing OEMs to not support HDDs as the primary storage device in pre-built Windows 11 PCs, using much faster SSDs in their place. Microsoft has ...