SSD vs HDD: Comparing speed, reliability, and storage options to help you choose the best upgrade for your laptop’s performance and capacity needs. Pixabay, josemiguels Choosing the right storage ...

Before you throw out that old desktop or laptop, consider upgrading its storage. Whether your computer uses a hard drive or an older solid-state drive (or SSD) it’s probably time to upgrade it. SSDs ...

Overview: SSDs drastically improve boot time, app load speed, and multitasking performance. NVMe drives offer faster data transfer, while SATA drives are more b ...

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, ...

It's been more than a decade since the first SSDs started to hit the consumer market and about 10 years since they began arriving at price points that could broadly be called "consumer-friendly." SSDs ...

Drives fail. And no matter how many backups you have, losing a drive when you’re in the middle of working on something important—my namesake’s law—can be a real pain in the ass. Thankfully, replacing ...

I’ve upgraded dozens of systems with solid-state drives. In every case I’ve gotten a “W” reaction, as in “Wow!” “Whoa!” and “No way!” (not to mention “Kewl!”). Given a relatively modern CPU, an SSD ...

Looking for a decent and affordable solid-state drive to replace your hard drive? The SanDisk Ultra Plus is the answer. Dong Ngo Former SF Labs Manager, Editor Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been ...

The Seagate Expansion boasts a single 22TB disk drive so it's physically no bigger than any other desktop hard drive. It ...