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Your unpowered SSD is a ticking time bomb

Unpowered data retention is sketchy; you may one day find that your backup's become corrupted. Storing the SSD in ...
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I turned my old laptop’s SSD into the fastest USB drive I own

Putting the drive together takes about a minute. Most enclosures are tool-free; you slide the SSD into the M.2 slot, secure ...

This neat Windows registry trick boosts NVMe SSD performance up to 80% but it's only officially available for enterprise users

Native NVMe support is an opt-in model, so enterprise users need to enable it via the registry. What some users have found ...

Your Windows SSD Could Be Faster, Microsoft’s New Update Reveals Why

Windows 11 users can unlock higher NVMe SSD performance using a hidden Microsoft driver, if they’re willing to tweak.

This Windows registry hack can boost NVMe SSD performance by up to 80%, but there's a catch

One developer who successfully activated the feature in Windows 11 (version 25H2) is X user PurePlayerPC, who claims it works "pretty good" on his computer. He ...