To understand how and why SSDs are different from spinning discs, we need to discuss hard drives. A hard drive stores data on a series of spinning magnetic disks called platters. This diagram shows an ...

Here at ExtremeTech, we've often discussed the difference between different types of NAND structures -- vertical NAND versus planar, or multi-level cell (MLC) versus triple-level cells (TLC) and ...

Between two storage solutions, generally speaking, SSDs are more reliable than HDDs. However, there are a variety of factors ...

I have a friend Steve (not his real name) who still installs his PC games on a large, slow, noise hard drive. You know, the old-school kind that spins up before it can read or write data? I keep ...

If you don't remember a time when SSDs didn't exist, it's easy to take for granted how much of a difference they make in modern gaming. Before the 2010s, HDDs, the mechanical predecessor of SSDs, were ...

You can speed up your PC and laptop by cloning HDD to SSD free. But Windows does not come with a free disk clone tool. Fortunately, there are some great free SSD cloning utilities to clone HDD to SSD ...

In this post, we are going to show you how to move Program files from an SSD drive to an HDD drive. SSDs (Solid State Drives) are faster, durable, smaller, and consume less drive. On the other hand, ...