Traditional Hard drives, or HDD in short, are commonly found in older PCs and laptops. Hard drives are mechanical devices with magnetic platters that spin and an arm that reads or writes data. These ...

It’s a shame that such a large percentage of laptops still come with slow, 5400 RPM, mechanical hard drives. A solid state hard drive not only boosts performance substantially, but also improves ...

My Lenovo Thinkpad laptop is almost 4 years old. It still functions well but the original Samsung 256GB M.2 SSD hard drive installed in the laptop is almost full, requiring me to keep a lot of files I ...

I have a 4 year old Asus K53TA (AMD A6) laptop that didn't like the Win10 migration I put it through, and also has a hard drive which is pretty slow. It's a 500GB platter drive split 45/55 into two ...

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, ...

Linux users are no doubt familiar with the ability to boot an entire Linux distro off a flash drive and use it directly that way, not having to install it on the hard drive of the computer. This is ...