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 ...

How do you format a Steam Deck SD card? While installing an SSD is the best way to expand your Steam Deck storage, sometimes you just want a quick fix to get some more games downloaded. This is where ...

Amid the widespread shift to subscription-based cloud storage solutions, relying on good-old physical drives can be a reassuring sense of independence. Whether you're trying to repurpose an old hard ...

Over on TidBITS Talk, user Lucas043 posed a question that prompted a fascinating discussion. Lucas043 has a Samsung Portable T7 SSD being used for backup. The SSD has intermittent access problems and ...

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I have an older Dell Inspiron 1750 laptop. I replaced its original spinning HDD with a brand new Samsung SSD 850 EVO drive, that was advertised as supporting hardware encryption. So now I'm trying to ...

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 ...

The 2025 MLB playoffs have moved to the Division Series. The Dodgers are now putting their title defense on the line against the NL East champion Phillies, while the Cubs are taking on the MLB-best ...

If you're a Samsung phone user, you can take advantage of a pretty sweet offer: a free year of Perplexity Pro. Samsung doesn't appear to have made any official announcement about the promotion, so it ...

How to move from an iPhone to a Samsung Galaxy phone Your email has been sent You’re switching from an iPhone to Android — specifically, to a Samsung Galaxy phone — and you’d like to be able to ...

The Samsung Portable SSD T9 (starts at $139.99 for 1TB; $439.99 for 4TB as tested) is a handsome external solid-state drive geared to content creators. It includes an upgrade to the already-terrific ...