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 ...

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 ...

SearchStorage.co.UK: Can you put any solid-state drive in a laptop or desktop computer? Evans: It’ll be good to set a little bit of background here, and understand what normally goes into a desktop or ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's always a good thing if you can keep older tech from going to the landfill, and old laptops are no exception. They often work perfectly except for a few things, including the speed of the physical ...