Luckily, there are a few ways to monitor your SSD’s health using SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) built into storage devices and software utilities that interface with it.

The most precious part of your computer is the hard drive. It contains all your data, if anything happens to it, it is all gone, and you could lose all your life’s work. So, it is important that you ...

Hard Drive failure is probably the most catastrophic issue for any computer user. The hard disk drive, most commonly termed as the hard drive or hard disk is the basic component of a computer used for ...

Windows only: Free utility CrystalDiskInfo keeps tabs on your hard drive health, including temperature, S.M.A.R.T. disk reporting, and the number of power cycles and run time on each disk. Although ...

I have a 4TB 2.5" drive that's been dropped a few times, and the partition table got corrupted as well a couple times. Is there a good tool to check the health? I'm not going to use this for important ...