For Samsung Magician, the first screen will be an overview of the Samsung drive in your system, with available firmware updates (if any), drive health, TBW, and some other links in the bottom. Simply launch the program through the Start Menu. Your Velocity Micro system should come preinstalled with the utility for your particular drive (Samsung Magician for Samsung, Crucial Storage Executive for Crucial, etc.).
Checking for new firmware is highly recommended, as newer firmware can extend the life of the drive.
Most SSD manufacturers have a utility available for their SSD’s that allows you to monitor the drive’s health, TBW, as well as check for firmware updates. An SSD’s life span is measured in terabytes written (TBW), or how many terabytes of data can be written to the drive before serious cell degradation occurs. Just like mechanical drives, though, SSD’s don’t last forever. The advantages of solid state storage are lower power consumption, no spool up time, less heat output, and greater resistance to physical damage since there are no moving parts. Instead, they use memory cells (called NAND cells) that use flash storage, similar to USB flash drives, to store their data.
Unlike conventional mechanical hard drives, Solid State Drives (SSD’s) do not use platters and write heads to store data. Estimated difficulty and completion time: 15 minutes, low difficulty.
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