Does your M.2 SSD need a cooler? How to make the right call

Do you need a cooler for your M.2 NVMe SSD? The short answer is yes, unless your SSD is operating within its defined ...
TweakTown

TRIM Check: Overview of an essential SSD TRIM functionality tester

Most SSD users are aware that TRIM is an essential Windows command that prolongs SSD life and ensures that their SSDs stay speedy. TRIM kicks-in after a file deletion in Windows and notifies the SSD ...
TechRepublic

How to Check SSD Health in Linux

Do you use Linux machines in your data center? If so, it's probably a good idea to regularly check the health of the SSD drives used on those machines. Here's how to do it. If your data center makes ...
ZDNet

What we learned about SSDs in 2015

Despite their wide use, SSDs are a young technology, one we're still learning about. Here's a roundup of the best research on SSDs in 2015. Researchers at Facebook and Carnegie Mellon checked out both ...
MacTech

B-Eng introduces SSD Health Check for macOS

B-Eng (http://www.b-eng.ch/) has announced SSD Health Check 1.0, the company’s new hard drive utility for macOS. It will alert you when your solid state disk is in ...
PC Gamer

MSI's M.2 shield shown to raise SSD temps and could lead to throttling

Testing shows MSI's M.2 shield traps heat. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. MSI developed what it thought was a clever solution to ...
TechSpot

MSI Spatium PCIe 5.0 SSD skirts high temps with towering heatsink

In a nutshell: MSI has introduced its next-gen flagship SSD, the Spatium M570 Pro Frozr PCIe 5.0.The new drive is powered by the latest Phison E26 PCIe 5.0 controller and utilized 3D NAND flash and a ...