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I hibernated my PC every day for five years, and my SSD paid the price
Writing your system state to the drive erodes its service life, but not by much.
My NAS backups were destroying Plex performance until I moved them to 3 AM
Sometimes the best upgrade costs nothing but a crontab edit.
TrueNAS proves that the TLC premium isn't worth it for your next NAS SSD
QLC NAND in a NAS drive is a better fit than its reputation suggests
Your SSD's "100% health" is lying to you, and here's how to check what it's actually hiding
The health percentage won't tell you the true state of your drive
I bought the cheap SSD instead of the fastest one, and I'd do it again
My storage is abundant and my wallet is happier for it
I dusted off an old SSD and it became my best storage upgrade this year
You don't always need to spend money to upgrade your home lab.
Filesystem choice mattered far more than drive speed for my photo library
ZFS on spinning disks will always beat the fastest drives on a filesystem with no checksums
Your Proxmox boot drive is probably dying faster than you think — here's what's actually happening
Proxmox may be ripping through your SSD without telling you a thing
Your SSD is dying faster than it should, and these 4 habits are contributing to excessive write cycles
Offloading downloads and VMs to a scratch SATA SSD and disabling Fast Startup preserves write cycles and delays replacement.
Every SSD has a hidden fast lane, and running out of it is why big file copies crawl
SSD write speeds don't tell the whole story
Used enterprise SSDs are a bargain, but only if you know what to check first
I'm still buying used enterprise SSDs instead of new consumer SSDs.
That empty M.2 slot on your motherboard might not actually be free to use
Don't assume you can install a second SSD without compromises.
How full your SSD is does more damage to it than anything you actually write
A cluttered NVMe labored under constant housekeeping, garbage collection and hidden writes that silently age NAND cells.
Your SSD might be running hotter than it needs to, and it's not the heatsink
The M.2 slot you pick impacts your SSD's thermals more than you think
I used my spare PCIe lanes for two used enterprise drives, and it became my cheapest storage upgrade yet
My two SAS drives that run off of an HBA card ended up being an excellent value
Counterfeit HDDs are flooding the market — here's how to spot one
It might not be simple, but you need to do what you can
I cloned an old SSD to save time, but it created more problems than it solved
I saved some hassle, but the downsides taught me a lesson
I lost my entire Jellyfin server to a dead drive, but my real mistake was the backup I thought I had
My backup was useless until I stopped backing up the wrong thing
I moved my Steam library to a network drive, and the load times aren't nearly as bad as you'd think
I started using my ZFS mirror as a Steam library, and it freed up a ton of space on my workstation
CES 2026 convinced me to buy one type of SSD before it disappears, so I'm buying now
The storage market is about to witness the biggest, and yet, most silent shift