Defragmentation, SMART monitoring, and more tips to keep your hard drives chugging along
In an age of increasingly affordable flash storage, hard drives are slowly disappearing from enthusiast rigs and mass-market laptops alike. Although SSDs are markedly faster than their platter-based counterparts, hard drives are still useful for long-term storage, archival, and massive media libraries that don’t require fast read/write speeds. Keeping your hard drives spinning can mean the difference between enjoying a music collection and …read more
