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, ...

A flash RAM-based SSD gives your PC amazing speed, but it’s expensive by the gigabyte. An old-fashioned, spinning-platter hard drive gives you vast amounts of storage for very little money. But if you ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

What’s the most effective way to replace a hard drive without losing data? Undoubtedly through a 1-to-1 copy, and disk cloning software can help do that without any hassle. Whether it’s to clone a ...

When shopping for a new laptop, you'll likely see a hard drive advertised as either an HDD or an SSD, and you'll see a storage size, usually measured in gigabytes (GB) or terabytes (TB). HDDs have a ...

The SSD solid-state hard drives included in MacBook Airs or available as an option with other MacBooks are proprietary components. This means that unlike the regular hard drives included in other ...

The best external SSDs offer a level of storage performance, read/write speed, and reliability that wasn't possible with older external hard drives. They're also lighter and much less susceptible to ...

Tom’s Hardware has been running some tests to challenge the common assumption that SSD hard drives use power more efficiently than magnetic plate drives. Their results were quite definitive: not only ...

If you've upgraded your laptop, don't discard that "naked" drive. You can put it back to work as external storage. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and ...