Today's fastest internal SSDs for consumers come in the super-small "gumstick" M.2 format. Here's how to buy the right M.2 SSD, along with deep-dive reviews of today's top models.

Most PCs use exclusively SSDs for just about every kind of storage these days. But what about hard drives? What is an SSD, really?

Hard disk drives may be headed into history, but before the last drive spins down, IT teams will need to navigate an HDD-to-SSD transition period. Here's a look at current options and best practices.

We've tested 1TB external hard drives from Seagate, Western Digital, SanDisk, Toshiba and more. The best external hard drives and best SSD external hard drives have fast read and write speeds, and ...

If you want to use a pre-used SSD for your computer, you need to first make its drive format type the same as that of the existing hard drive, prior to the cloning process.

So you’ve decided to implement solid state drives (SSDs) to speed up your access to data. That’s great! But now comes the tough part: picking the right drive to use. There are a variety of types of ...

Solid state drives: fast but expensive The newer storage type, solid-state drives or SSDs are non-mechanical drives that rely on flash memory chips to store data.

The best external hard drives let you take your data on the go without fear of data loss. Whether HDD or SSD, here are the best external drives you can buy.

The best external SSDs offer speeds that just aren't possible with older external hard drives. They're also lighter, more reliable and a bit more expensive.