Given that, and that most of my work is programming hence small file I/O, I figure an external SSD boot drive on FW800 for good latency, and a mechanical spinner internally on the sata bus for large ...

The boot drive is the most fundamental of all the drives your PC may use, as it contains the operating system. Whether it's a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD), it has everything your ...

Prices on the OCZ Vertex 2 are pretty good right now, and I'm thinking of buying a small 60GB drive as a boot drive. But I've read that I should disable SuperFetch if I use an SSD. If I do that, what ...

Solid state memory has come a long way in the last few years. So while flash memory modules (including SD cards, Compact Flash cards, 2.5″ SSDs, and the chips that are soldered onto Eee PC, Acer ...

You can still make an external macOS bootable drive, but Apple's tighter security procedures mean you have to prepare for it before your internal drive fails. Here's how to do it all, and what's been ...

Kingston Digital has announced its latest data center SSD, which it says can utilize the latest Gen 4x4 PCIe interface, paired with 112-layer 3D TLC NAND. The DC2000B offers low latency and IOPS ...

Upgrading a computer's boot drive from a traditional hard drive to an SSD is one of the single best performance upgrades ever. But, if you're like many of us, when you did it SSDs were expensive, and ...

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, ...