There are many ways to make a slow laptop faster, but few are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD). Making the swap will, in most cases, ...

Just merely on a general consumer level, there are many excellent reasons why you should install your Windows operating system on a solid state drive (SSD). Not only are they, generally speaking, ...

Computers use two main types of storage: hard disk drives and solid-state drives. Both store your files, applications and operating system, but they work differently. These differences significantly ...

D on't get me wrong, if you need to get a lot of storage space for your PC, the simplest thing you can do is buy one SSD big enough to meet all your needs. But it's not the cheapest or most efficient ...

Too often I have had my Linux install messed up by booting into windows on the same drive, then trying to boot into Linux on the next boot. Once I had the problem of Windows setting the time to local ...

Data is omnipresent. It’s stored on different devices — traditionally on a desktop PC, but now perhaps even more importantly on a mobile device such as a smartphone or tablet. Even though data and ...

Remember when floppy disk drives (FDDs) ruled the day before USB flash drives rendered them obsolete? Mechanical hard disk drives (HDDs) have proven more resilient in the wake of solid state drives ...

If I add an SSD to the chain, and as long as it's the only item being accessed, it would be free to the entire bandwidth, but the moment there's simultaneous access between the SSD and one of the ...

You probably know SSDs are quite a bit faster than spinning hard drives. They've replaced conventional HDDs in most use cases, and might become the universal standard when prices become comparable to ...

Forward-looking: Do you still use an HDD as the primary boot drive for your PC? While there are some exceptions, most people today prefer a much speedier SSD for booting into the OS, which could be a ...