When updating a piece of software as large and complex and old as Windows, you’re inevitably going to break something every once in a while. Microsoft tracks known issues here—generally they affect ...

I've dealt with some slow PCs in my life. At an old job a decade ago, the PCs were so slow that you could quite literally boot the PC, go away for 20 minutes, and come back with it finally ready to be ...

Backblaze, a San Mateo, California-based backup and cloud storage firm, on Thursday shared data giving us a unique look at the reliability of SSDs over up to four years of use. Looking at the 2,906 ...

Modern SSDs need some free space to maintain performance through wear leveling and over-provisioning. Performance gradually declines as SSDs reach full capacity, impacting file transfers and boot ...

Even if you own one of the best SSDs, it will fail one day, and that's a fact. Because of how SSDs work, each has a finite number of read and write cycles that it can complete before it dies, and ...

There are many ways to make a slow laptop faster, but few are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD). Making the swap will, in most cases, ...

If the SDD in a 2017 MacBook Pro fails, the logic board needs to be replaced, and vice versa. Photo: Apple The 13-inch Touch Bar-less MacBook Pro 2017 has a problem that requires the solid state drive ...