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 ...

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 new DIY trick repurposes an old laptop SSD into a functional gadget and portable PC component, extending its usefulness.

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 ...