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Portable solid-state drives are great, offering lots of storage and faster speeds than a USB flash drive while in a still-portable package. People often use them to back up their PCs with backup ...

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There’s a trick to thoroughly wiping all your data before you junk your old external solid state drive—or even computer.

Now SanDisk Corp. has released to open source a technique that reduces preconditioning times by as much as 90%. The method, ...

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SSD performance issues? Learn how to free space, enable TRIM, optimize settings, and update firmware to speed it up.

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