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Understanding Defragment and Optimize Drives for SSDs | Learning to Run with Flash 2.0

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Disk Optimization is a very simple process by which your PC  physically removes deleted and unnecessary data from your SSD in order to allow for better performance and longevity.  You can do this manually as we will demonstrate, but thankfully your PC has already set this up.  Drive Optimization is a beneficial and background process that occurs automatically with PCs.  …

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Where is My New SSD? | Learning to Run With Flash 2.0

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You most likely arrived here one of two ways; sheer interest or you just installed your new SSD and cannot find it.  The latter is more common than most think and usually the after effect of installing a secondary SSD in your system.  After all, a migration of a former hard drive based system (which we NEVER recommend) wouldn’t cause …

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KIOXIA Exceria Plus G4 Gen5 2TB SSD Review – Low Power Gen5 SSD with Decent Speeds

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Without a doubt, our biggest takeaway from attending Computex 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan, this year was our introduction to Risteárd McSweeney of 360Technology.io.  We met Risteárd through his representation of KIOXIA at their exhibit and he has been able to accomplish something that we haven’t for several years, our review of  the consumer side of KIOXIA products.  In fact, our …

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Patriot Showcases Two Gen5 14GB/s SSD Releases and One Is DRAMless – Computex 2025 Flash Update

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Our visit to Patriot at Computex in Taiwan this morning resulted in two interesting Patriot soon-to-be releases…and just a bit of familiarity.  First off, Patriot has jumped aboard the Silicon Motion train with their newest PV593 which is a Gen5 SSD based on the SMI SM2508 8-channel NVMe SSD controller.  This controller will provide speeds of 14GB/s read and 13GB/s …

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