External HDDs provide massive storage at low costs but speed becomes the limitation the moment you need to access that data quickly: Transferring 100GB of files turns into 15-minute waits on ...

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, ...

If you’re a MacBook Air user, you might have experienced the frustration of running out of storage space. Especially for those with the M1 MacBook Air, the base storage of 128 GB for the educational ...

I have a 2019 iMac with the 21.5″ Retina display and a 1 TB Fusion Drive. It’s a 6-core monster and the slowest computer I’ve used in probably a decade. How do I make it suck less? The first step will ...

When 2.5-inch SATA SSDs finally became affordable, the popularity of hard drives naturally saw a huge dip. Switching from a hard drive to a SATA SSD promised an instant boost to system responsiveness, ...

W hen upgrading your PC, it's easy to focus on the more exciting components, such as a faster CPU, a more powerful GPU, or ...

It took far too long for Microsoft to release an upgradeable (and partially repairable) Surface. Even then, on the few recent devices with the capability, it's just the SSD that can be replaced.