There is one upgrade that will universally improve a laptop’s performance: adding an SSD. This is a particularly attractive upgrade for budget laptops, which typically come with a hard drive. That’s ...

Solid-state drives are all the rage. Since SSDs have no moving parts, they’re more rugged and shock-resistant than standard hard drives–which makes them perfect for laptops that get bumped around a ...

SearchStorage.co.UK: Can you put any solid-state drive in a laptop or desktop computer? Evans: It’ll be good to set a little bit of background here, and understand what normally goes into a desktop or ...

How to choose a laptop based on HDD, SSD, CD, DVD and Blu-ray options Reviewed by Michael Barton Heine Jr Reviewed by Michael Barton Heine Jr Modern laptops are moving away from mechanical drives in ...

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 ...

Switching to a solid state drive, as we've mentioned repeatedly, is one of the best upgrades you can make. Because of the cost, though, you usually have to trade storage capacity for that performance ...

Match storage to your workflow: if you work with heavy media, you'll need several TBs, whereas light browser use requires ...