With games getting bigger and countless photos and videos taking up space, it's inevitable that you'll start running out of ...

The best external SSDs offer a level of storage performance, read/write speed, and reliability that wasn't possible with older external hard drives. They're also lighter and much less susceptible to ...

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, ...

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 ...

Planning on taking a lot of family photos this holiday season, or just downloading a bunch of new games? Make room with a new internal or external drive at a discount.

Apple's move to using SSDs across the iMac lineup instead of hard drives offer considerable speed benefits to users. AppleInsider explains what these terms all mean to Mac users, and how they apply to ...

Three years ago, I wrote a story comparing hard disk drives to solid state drives (SSDs) based on capacity, performance and cost. A lot has changed in three years. For one, laptops are quickly being ...

The speed of a computer depends on several components, including the hard drive, CPU, RAM and video card. Which parts matter most, however, depends heavily on how you use your machine. A faster drive ...

To install Windows 11/10 on a new or secondary SSD or HDD, you will have to: Create a new partition on the Second SSD or Harddrive Create Windows Bootable USB Use the Custom Option when installing ...

Of all the PC components, few require more care and attention than a hard drive. We’ve all heard the admonishments to defragment drives, and clean up junk files to keep all our 1s and 0s sparkling. No ...

Editor’s note: This story is excerpted from Computerworld. For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld’s Macintosh Knowledge Center. Three years ago, I wrote a story comparing hard disk drives to solid ...