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, ...

Bought a cheap new laptop with an incredibly slow 1TB HDD. Want to buy a 500GB SSD and switch the drives out. Is there a free/easy way to clone the larger drive to the smaller one, switch it out, and ...

I have an old dell xps 8100 desktop that is literally over a decade old. I haven't used it much in the last decade after switching to laptops. Back then, I remember it was very fast at the time as it ...

Patrick Couzens asked about using both a solid state drive (SSD) and a hard disk drive (HDD) in the same computer. I think this is an excellent idea. It gives you most of the speed advantages of an ...

When I wrote a series of How-To guides showing how easy it was to swap old Mac hard disks for new solid state drives (SSDs), I focused on raw upgrades — slow mechanical drives for fast chip-based ones ...

In times past, choosing the best PC storage option just meant picking the highest-capacity hard drive you could afford. If only life were still so simple! The rise of solid-state drives and hybrid ...

If you find yourself in the enviable position of getting new hardware for your gaming PC, it's worth taking the time to make sure you’re getting components that are going to serve you well. When it ...

Earlier this week, I told you how installing an SSD in an old Windows 10 laptop has been the best and worst upgrade I've ever done. It was the best because the SSD gave that older machine a second ...