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, ...

Anyone who’s switched from an HDD to an SSD knows that it can cut your boot time down by a noticeable margin, not to mention ...

I'm finally going with an SSD in my new Win 7 64-bit box. I'm thinking 180 GB is the minimum I should consider for an SSD boot drive. On an aging Vista box, the boot drive sizes to around 60GB and ...

From corrupted system files and outdated drivers to too many startup programs and slow hardware, various factors can cause your computer to take longer to start up. Aside from getting an SSD, enabling ...

I'm thinking of getting a SSD boot drive for my Mac Pro, but I have no idea how I would put my OS and apps on it and put my data + home directly on a separate hard-drive.<BR><BR>Can someone give me a ...

You can still make an external macOS bootable drive, but Apple's tighter security procedures mean you have to prepare for it before your internal drive fails. Here's how to do it all, and what's been ...

With solid-state disk (SSD) drives becoming more popular for laptops, users may find themselves in the position of upgrading the hard disk drive (HDD) in an older machine to get the reliability and ...

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It’s always a strange moment saying goodbye to a technology you’ve used forever, and I now find myself waving farewell to another one: the humble spinning-platter hard drive. Sure, I’ve been using ...

We all need to start from scratch sometimes and if you're building a new PC, chances are you'll need to learn how to make a bootable USB drive. This will enable you to boot your PC directly from a USB ...

Storage has come a long way in recent years, from hard disk drives to solid-state drives, and now that we're multiple ...