The boot drive is the most fundamental of all the drives your PC may use, as it contains the operating system. Whether it's a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD), it has everything your ...

I'm finally going with an SSD in my new Win 7 64-bit box. I'm thinking 180 GB is the minimum I should consider for an SSD boot drive. On an aging Vista box, the boot drive sizes to around 60GB and ...

Given that, and that most of my work is programming hence small file I/O, I figure an external SSD boot drive on FW800 for good latency, and a mechanical spinner internally on the sata bus for large ...

Upgrading your laptop's storage to a modern SSD can make a big difference to its performance on paper and how it feels to use. An SSD swap for an old hard drive or adding in a faster NVMe SSD 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, ...

When I bought a new laptop earlier this year, it was after several cautionary notes from fellow ET contributors that I might regret not waiting a few months for Ivy Bridge. I was thrilled with the ...

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, ...

When Windows 11 was first announced, a lot of people were taken aback by the strict system requirements for the OS. CPUs from both AMD and Intel, that were only a couple of generations old, were ...