Before you buy your replacement SSD, you’ll need to figure out if your laptop uses a drive with a SATA (Serial ATA) or PATA (Parallel ATA) interface. While a general rule of thumb is that 2006 marks ...

Installing an SSD is one of the most straightforward upgrades you can do to your PC — the only one with fewer steps is installing new memory. That makes it a great way to try out upgrading your PC by ...

Here’s just a quick tutorial on how to install a second hard drive or solid state drive to your old Macbook Pro by replacing the optical drive with a SSD/HDD in case you need any extra storage place ...

Prices on solid-state drives are dropping, and operating systems (particularly Windows 7) are beginning to take advantage of the potential higher speeds of SSDs, so it’s a good time to consider ...

Running a solid state drive on your desktop computer has several advantages over using a traditional hard drive. Your computer boots faster, shuts down much more quickly and programs open faster. In ...

It’s a shame that such a large percentage of laptops still come with slow, 5400 RPM, mechanical hard drives. A solid state hard drive not only boosts performance substantially, but also improves ...

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, ...

Solid-state drives are all the rage. Since SSDs have no moving parts, they’re more rugged and shock-resistant than standard hard drives–which makes them perfect for laptops that get bumped around a ...

Shortly before Christmas I got a new Acer Aspire Z3-710 all-in-one desktop system. I have been using it every day since then, and I really like it a lot. I have wanted to swap out the factory disk ...

The average size of a video game has increased substantially over the years, so it's just as well that storage upgrades aren't anywhere near as expensive as they used to be. But if you've only got one ...

It's not always the drive, it's also what controls it.