HOW TO
STEP-BY-STEP GUIDES TO IMPROVING YOUR PC
TIP OF THE MONTH
ALWAYS PERFORM A QUICK FORMAT
Whatever you do with your SSDs, ensure that when formatting, you perform a quick format. If you try to do a full format on an SSD, it treats it like a traditional HDD, and Windows will run a full read/write cycle over every cell on the SSD, writing a 0 in every memory cell before deleting it. If your SSD only has a 600 TBW endurance rating, and it’s a 2TB drive, then you’ve immediately reduced that to 598 before writing anything to it.