During the ongoing Amazon Prime Day 2023 sale, portable and internal SSD storage options from WD, SanDisk, Samsung, and other brands are available at a discounted ...

Unpowered data retention is sketchy; you may one day find that your backup's become corrupted. Storing the SSD in less-than-ideal conditions will only contribute to potential data loss, such as ...

My mid-2011 Mac mini had slowed down. Way down. Starting with Mavericks, the mini would eventually bog down after a number of days between restarts, and require a force restart or manual one. It took ...

My current Time Machine drive is a 4TB HDD I've been using for...probably like a decade at this point. It's been very reliable. But being an HDD, it has the obvious downsides of noise and slowness.

An SSD drive is a worthwhile investment, but like any storage device, it can fail. In fact, failing isn't that uncommon. As with your spinning drives, you should always set up a good backup solution, ...

Xbox Series X or S owners in need of more storage space for current-gen software may be in luck if they have a spare SSD, according to one modder’s experiences. Writing in a step-by-step post on the ...

An avalanche of reports emerged last September, when owners of the usually speedy Samsung SSD 840 and SSD 840 EVO detected the drives were no longer performing as they used to. The issue has to do ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. Currently, I have about 10 different SSD enclosures with ...