Marginal Power Mars Win10 USB Flash Drive Access
Profile: Ed Tittel
I’ve been struggling with an interesting problem lately. And by interesting I mean maddening, vexing and occasionally baffling. Let me explain. I have a number of mSATA SSDs at my disposal. Right now, I house them in Sabrent USB 3.0 drive enclosures (about US$18 at 
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Yes, Virginia: A Clean Install Still Makes a Difference!
Profile: Ed Tittel
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...
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Yes, Virginia: Windows *DOES* Defrag SSDs (Sometimes)
Profile: Ed Tittel
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...
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Can SSD Utilities Make a Difference?
Profile: Ed Tittel
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...
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SSD Breakthrough Speeds Writes, Saves Energy
Profile: Ed Tittel
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 "
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