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, ...

Do you find your computer slow? What if you could speed it up by swapping the storage device with a faster one? Did you know it is easy to clone your data to an SSD to keep it intact? All it takes is ...

If you bought your iMac 3-5 years ago, there’s probably nothing so seriously wrong with the hardware that you need to consider replacing the machine. Sure, the new iMac with 5K Retina Display looks a ...

Swapping an SSD? How much SSD storage do you need? It’s good to know the critical SSD parameters before trying to replace one, such as capacity, read/write speed, and interface types (M.2, NVMe, PCIe, ...

There is one upgrade that will universally improve a laptop’s performance: adding an SSD. This is a particularly attractive upgrade for budget laptops, which typically come with a hard drive. That’s ...

The first SSD I ever used was the Samsung 860 EVO — a 250GB SATA drive that was a phenomenal upgrade over my hard drive back ...

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 ...

Primary storage devices directly connected to the computer's main bus have excellent latency and throughput, but on the other hand, they have the problem of small capacity. If you are focusing on the ...

SATA is the abbreviated form of Serial Advanced Technology Attachment. The current standard technology for connecting a hard drive or SSD to the rest of the computer. SATA is a single cable with a ...