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, ...

After finding out about Crucial's 960GB SSD at Newegg, I was shocked to find that an SSD that large is aviable to consumers at that price. Now I'm thinking when SSDs get large enough and cheap enough ...

A computer with a built-in solid-state drive (SSD) will give you faster startup speeds, slicker data-writing when copying files, and a snappier process for opening and swapping between programs, ...

Solid state drives (SSDs) have many advantages over hard disk drives (HDDs), but they are not expected to replace HDDs in the near future. Hard disk drives store data by writing bits magnetically to ...

Waaaay back when the iMacs went through their last major format change (from the iLamp to the current rectangle-suspended-from-a metal foot), there was one model cycle that were gloriously easy to ...

Depending on the model, a Compaq Presario might use a SATA hard drive or an IDE drive. The former is found in most models released after 2003, and the latter in earlier PCs. Replacing an IDE drive is ...

The company's Micron 5210 ION enterprise SATA SSD is now generally available and aimed at artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and other intensive workloads. Micron also said that ...

The large earthquake in northeastern Japan in March 2011 and flooding in Thailand in October 2011 resulted in short supply of hard disk drives (HDDs) and therefore pushed up prices for a while, ...