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7 Quick Tricks to Make SSD Run Faster

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“My Solid-state drive boot times are getting progressively longer, to the point now it's pretty much like an HDD. My loading for games are becoming slower and slower. Is the fix for this to reinstall the OS or is there something else I can do?” If you have used an SSD (solid-state drive) on your computer, you might experience similar issues as SanDisk or Samsung SSD slow especially when it is almost full. Then you will find it takes a longer time to open or load any apps/program. What's worse, sometimes it causes freezing problems. Now you might probably be asking: Isn't SSD supposed to run faster? Is there any feasible solution to SSD slowing down in Windows computers? The answer is yes. 7 Quick tricks to make SSD run faster in Windows 11/10/8/7 No matter which solid-state drive, like Samsung, SanDisk, Kingston SSD or another famous one, you are using on Windows 7, 8, 10, or 11 system-based computers, the below 7 tricks can help with SSD running slow problem. (We will tak...

When do you need SSD alignment in Windows 10/11?

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SSD alignment mostly refers to SSD partition 4K alignment because SSD adopt the smallest 4K sector in file system to save data. If the smallest 4K allocation units are not always aligned with the 4K pages in SSD, the performance of SSD could be affected. 4K alignment also is widely used in advanced formatted mechanical hard disk. 4K aligned partition better serves operating systems and offers higher performance. One may need to align Windows 10 after clone. There are some signs that show your SSD alignment not OK. For instance, known small file occupies large disk storage in data partition, or system programs and applications run slowly even if you just upgrade hard drive to SSD. If things continue this way, the number of unnecessary writing operations will increase dramatically, which shortens SSD lifespan eventually. ... Learn more here    https://www.ankmax.com/newsinfo/2806056.html