Posts Tagged 'SSD'

Competition between SSD and HDD

The debate about the reliability of SSDs has been going on for years. There are several factors in SSDs favor. First and foremost, they provide impressive speeds, allowing them to be used both for home use and in servers that require high-speed data access. At the same time, all SSDs have the key feature of having a limited amount of information that can be written. Simply put, while a conventional HDD can last for decades until it fails, newer drives will cease to function once the threshold...

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Is It Safe to Run CHKDSK on Solid State Drive (SSD)?

Many users wonder whether it is safe to run CHKDSK on solid state drive (SSD). This article will look at this question and expose the actual answer. Windows provides users with an inbuilt disk scan and fix utility – CHKDSK. It has been appreciated a lot thanks to its great performance in detecting and repairing disk issues, preventing data corruption like PST corruption. And in reality, it is highly recommended to run CHKDSK on hard drive at regular intervals. Also, it plays an excellent...

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SSD vs HDD: Different Chances of Recovering Deleted Files

If you unintentionally delete a file, you'll make efforts to recover the deleted file. In this process, you may wonder the chances of such file recovery. In fact, the chances can vary with the drive types. Now, this post will delve into this issue on SSD and HDD. Despite constantly improving performance and reliability of storage drives, data loss remain quite common in reality due to a variety of issues, including software faults, virus infection, power outages causing data corruption like...

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