Solid-state drives have replaced hard disk drives as the storage of choice in just about all new PCs, but some situations still call for old-school platter drives. Here's how to decide which is best ...

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 bought a laptop or desktop PC anytime in the last few years, you have a solid-state drive (SSD) as your computer's primary boot drive. You can rest assured that you're getting the best storage ...

Behold, the final piece of actual hardware installation work you’ll need to perform on your custom PC build. In this section we’ll walk you through how to install SSDs of two different types, as well ...

Running a solid state drive on your desktop computer has several advantages over using a traditional hard drive. Your computer boots faster, shuts down much more quickly and programs open faster. In ...

After reading The Best of Both Worlds: An SSD and a HDD, George McCluney asked if it’s possible to combine both drives on a laptop. When I finished researching that article, I looked at my numbers and ...

Since I set the macbook up with multiple partitions with a few different OS versions, one thing that I've noticed is that with Yosemite the fans seem to be running nearly 50% of the time. On Snow ...