To understand how and why SSDs are different from spinning discs, we need to discuss hard drives. A hard drive stores data on a series of spinning magnetic disks called platters. This diagram shows an ...

Portable SSD encryption protects sensitive data through hardware-level security, authentication, and automatic locking. It ensures files remain unreadable even if devices are lost, stolen, or ...

We’ve tested a lot of internal SSDs over the last decade or so, and the improvement to the technology has been astounding. The ongoing advancements in SSDs keep us on our toes and our testing ...

Almost a year ago, The Tech Report set out to answer a question: Exactly how much hammering could modern SSDs take? The site put together a comprehensive stress test that would hammer the drives with ...

The first generation of solid-state drives (SSD) introduced in PCs last year failed to live up to the hype. Though praised for using less power and generating less heat than conventional hard disk ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Solid-state storage is one of the most transformative technologies of the 21st century, doing away with bulky hard drives and allowing us to ...