I know I've asked this before and I apologize but I cannot find my thread. I think I am ready to swap my 13" MBP hard drive for an SSD, but don't want to go through the hassle of re-installing ...

Waaaaay back in the day, I remember the best recommendation for the swap file being 2x your physical RAM and leave it on the C drive. In the days of SSDs, though, what's the best practice? If you have ...

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: The age of your computer may determine whether you can replace its hard drive with an SSD. An older computer needs a SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) connection to link to most SSDs.

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 ...

When I wrote a series of How-To guides showing how easy it was to swap old Mac hard disks for new solid state drives (SSDs), I focused on raw upgrades — slow mechanical drives for fast chip-based ones ...

My Mac is now silent. After installing a solid state drive (SSD) with no moving parts, the drone of my iMac’s hard drive and fans has given way to such an absence of sound that I only hear the ...

Oh sure, you're pretty 1337 if you can say you've got an SSD within your laptop, but if you've a need to store more than, say, 8GB of files, a bit more room may be desired. tnkgrl's Aspire One mods ...

Just the day before the Xbox One was planned to launch, iFixit tore down the new gaming console and revealed that the system comes with a replaceable hard drive, complete with standard SATA ...

A computer with a built-in solid-state drive (SSD) will give you faster startup speeds, slicker data-writing when copying files, and a snappier process for opening and swapping between programs, ...