Last week, we ran a syndicated piece from The Wirecutter on what the best consumer-grade SSD is for most people to buy. In it, guest author Nathan Edwards issued this caveat about adding third-party ...

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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 ...

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When you install a new Solid-State Drive (SSD), the difference is almost magical. Your computer boots in seconds, applications launch instantly, games load faster, and file transfers feel effortless.

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 ...