Some Mac Pro tower users--wanting to run MacOS--successfully used certain M2 SSD cards on PCIe adapters. But what works or not seems complicated, and Apple revised this machine several times. Is it ...

Editor's note: this post was originally published in July of 2008. It's been updated with current information. Is 20 th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk ...

I've been building computers since the 1990s, so I've seen a lot of new technologies work their way into the mainstream. Most were the steady, incremental improvements predicted by Moore's law, but ...

With the launch of Windows 7 in the fall of 2009, adopters were treated to many useful new features. But for SSD users, there was one that mattered more than the others: TRIM support. Being a ...

Linux creator Linus Torvalds last night announced the release of version 3.9 of the kernel. Available for download at kernel.org, Linux 3.9 brings a long list of improvements to storage, networking, ...

Three years ago, I first reviewed an SSD (solid-state drive) under Linux. At the time, I had an ultra-portable laptop with a 4200rpm hard drive that really bogged down the performance on what was ...

Unless you're using Linux on a virtual machine, installing the open-source OS is usually done via a USB drive. Because of this, you can burn an ISO to a USB drive, reboot the system, boot into the USB ...