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, ...

A: The age of your computer may determine whether you can replace its hard drive with an SSD. An older computer needs a SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) connection to link to most SSDs.

Bought a cheap new laptop with an incredibly slow 1TB HDD. Want to buy a 500GB SSD and switch the drives out. Is there a free/easy way to clone the larger drive to the smaller one, switch it out, and ...

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, ...

Patrick Couzens asked about using both a solid state drive (SSD) and a hard disk drive (HDD) in the same computer. I think this is an excellent idea. It gives you most of the speed advantages of an ...

Waaaaay back in the day, I remember the best recommendation for the swap file being 2x your physical RAM and leave it on the C drive. In the days of SSDs, though, what's the best practice? If you have ...

When I wrote a series of How-To guides showing how easy it was to swap old Mac hard disks for new solid state drives (SSDs), I focused on raw upgrades — slow mechanical drives for fast chip-based ones ...

Sure SSDs are great, because they’re fast, sturdy, and quiet. But do you ever feel like it’s a little too quiet around your computer? If you find yourself missing the signature ticking sounds that ...