The boot drive is the most fundamental of all the drives your PC may use, as it contains the operating system. Whether it's a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD), it has everything your ...

Gilbert wants to know if he should upgrade his boot drive SSD and also wants our opinion on the rest of his rig. Hi gents, and thanks for the section and advice. I have a three-year-old custom build I ...

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, ...

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 ...

I decided to upgrade from a Crucial 128 GB m4 SSD (from about 2012) to a 256GB m550 (they were on sale last week), and wanted to clone my current installation (Win7 SP1 Pro) to the new drive using ...

When I bought a new laptop earlier this year, it was after several cautionary notes from fellow ET contributors that I might regret not waiting a few months for Ivy Bridge. I was thrilled with the ...

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, ...