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.

A rash of SSD failures have prompted some users to blame a recent Windows Update. Microsoft insist the problem is not its fault.

Phison said its own tests, spanning over 4,500 hours, could not reproduce the reported failures. The firm pointed out that thermal stress during heavy workloads could be a probable factor. It also ...

The first was caused by update KB5063875, a relatively minor security update for older versions of Windows 10 and 11. This update broke Windows' built-in reset and recovery features, used to restore a ...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 security update is triggering SSD failures during heavy data transfers, according to some reports. The issue came to attention late last week when an X (formerly Twitter) ...

Reports have been circulating for the past few weeks that recent Windows 11 updates (KB5063878 and KB5062660) were causing ...

Surprisingly, the memory component company says none of its customers or partners have seen Windows 11 update KB5063878 ...