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How to Check SSD Health in Windows 10 and Windows 11

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.
Computer Weekly

Get HDD temperature right, or risk more drive failures

We talk to Rainer Kaese of Toshiba about the right temperature to run your hard disk drives at. Not getting it right risks ...
XDA Developers on MSN

SMART data might make you misdiagnose a drive, sanity check these 6 parameters first

Modern storage drives have a feature called SMART data, which stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology.

How to check your PC's full specifications on Windows 10

Here are the five best ways to find out the technical specifications of your computer on Windows 10. On Windows 10, checking ...
Ars Technica

Sanity Check - Imminent HDD Failure and my Response

My hard drive started to pretend it is a MixMaster Blender yesterday and I am concerned. Aside from the audible volume, I could feel the vibrations through the desk. This happended to me once before ...