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A common concern with the current crop of Solid State Drives is the performance penalty associated with block-rewriting. The flash memory used on today's SSDs is comprised of cells that usually ...

I just replaced the 1TB 7200rpm hdd with in my mid 2012 non-retina MBP with a Crucial M500 960Gb SSD about a month ago and I was wondering about the issue of TRIM. I seen some arguments saying that ...

Solid state storage (SSS) is the performance alternative to mechanical hard disk drives (HDD). Flash memory, thanks to its reduced cost compared to DRAM, has become the primary way the (SSS) is ...

PhotoFast has unveiled a new line of SSDs that use the parallel ATA connection for netbook and notebook systems that use 1.8-inch SSDs. The line is aimed at upgrades and has a maximum sequential read ...

So, let's say you don't have TRIM available on your external 500.GB USB3 connected SSD. Let's also say your 500.GB SSD is filled up, but it has 10.GB of over-provisioning. You then delete a 30.GB file ...

For all the benefits solid state drives offer over traditional platter-based HDDs, one common concern with the current crop of devices (besides the obvious price disadvantage, of course) is how ...