Yes, Virginia: A Clean Install Still Makes a Difference!

Over the past couple of days, I've reinstalled Windows 10 on my colleague Kim's Lenovo T530 laptop. I also installed a Samsung EVO 840 mSATA SSD as the unit's new boot drive. The prior occupant of that role was a three-year-old HGST 500 GB HDD (probably still a Hitachi hard disk at the time it was...
Yes, Virginia: Windows *DOES* Defrag SSDs (Sometimes)

Two persistent myths that attach to SSDs running under "modern" Windows OSes (version 7 and higher) are as follows: (a) defragging such disks is a bad idea (b) Windows doesn't defrag such disks by default, provided that it recognizes them properly. Visiting the Windows 8 Forums this morning...
Can SSD Utilities Make a Difference?

Having just rebuilt my production desktop one week ago, I'm still in the process of tweaking and tuning that system to bring it up to max performance. Over the weekend, I installed Samsung Magician 4.4, the latest version of the SSD utility for the 500GB EVO 840 drive installed as the boot/system...
SSD Breakthrough Speeds Writes, Saves Energy

When I saw the headline at pocket-lint.com this morning, my first thought was "marketing/advertising spam!" But when I dug a bit more deeply into "