When it comes to storing data on your PC, you essentially have two options: a traditional Hard Disk Drive (HDD) or a Solid State Drive (SSD). Both store your operating system, apps, games, and files, ...

If you want to know whether your Windows PC has been restarted in your absence, you can find out using the Windows event log.

While all SSDs are going to be faster than physical, spinning disk media, the experience between different SSDs and the flash they have within varies quite considerably. Flash storage most commonly ...

Portable SSD vs external hard drive in 2026 explained—compare speed, durability, cost, and storage needs to choose the best ...

Spot fake SSDs by checking prices, sellers, packaging, build quality, listed capacity, and testing tools like F3, H2Testw, or ...

If you find yourself in the enviable position of getting new hardware for your gaming PC, it's worth taking the time to make sure you’re getting components that are going to serve you well. When it ...

As part of our investigation into the consumer SSD market, we've reached out to multiple manufacturers to better understand the practice of shipping different versions of an SSD under the same SKU.

Microsoft’s Surface devices had a well-deserved reputation for being impossible to repair in their early years, but Microsoft has sought to change that more recently. Newer Surfaces feature detailed ...

Last week I highlighted a pair of ARM processors with very different use cases, and now the pattern repeats as Western Digital, a company synonymous with hard-disk technology, introduces a pair of ...

Apple's super slender MacBook Air line of laptops currently uses Toshiba's slim Blade X-gale solid-state drives (SSDs), but there's talk that the company is making a quiet switch to some speedier ...

As part of our investigation into the consumer SSD market, we've reached out to multiple manufacturers to better understand the practice of shipping different versions of an SSD under the same SKU.