Think your hard drive might be failing? Here’s how to test your SSD or HDD and catch problems early.

If nothing seems to work out, it's possible that you've purchased a slower hard disk. A disk rated at a lower speed of 5,400 RPM is naturally slower than its competitors with 7,200 or 10,000 RPM.

The Crucial T710 PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD comes in 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB storage options for $180, $280, and $550 respectively. Though, ...

The new WD Black SN8100 is one of the fastest PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs I've tested, but apparent incompatibilities with our old test bed had write performance at times dipping to SATA speeds.

Apart from using Task Manager to check the read and write speeds, you can also use third-party software to assess the speed of your USB flash drive or external hard drive on a Windows 11/10 PC.

Endurance of an SSD refers to the amount of data that can be written to it before it starts experiencing reduced performance, ...