Adding SSD to laptop and desktop computers: What form factor, MLC or SLC, SATA or AHCI, and what are the key stages of installation? We answer your questions in this podcast.

If you want to use a pre-used SSD for your computer, you need to first make its drive format type the same as that of the existing hard drive, prior to the cloning process.

When I first wrote about using solid state drives (SSDs) to radically improve the performance of older Macs, high-capacity SSDs were just beginning to become affordable. Replacing a Mac’s 500GB ...

I have a laptop (Vaio Z C2D 2.53) I use almost everyday for office work. I also have a desktop (i7-2600K) I use for games/photo editting. The desktop now has an 80 GB Intel X25-M. The laptop has a ...

I've been using SSD-equipped PCs with Windows 7 since October 2009, and I now have two laptops and one desktop PC that are fitted with these superfast drives.

The NUC 12 Extreme may not be as tiny as previous models, but it has a powerful 12th-gen CPU and it can fit in a full-sized desktop GPU. While it requires adding in your own RAM, SSD and GPU, it ...