One way to speed up your computer is by swapping out your optical hard drive for a solid-state drive (an SSD). There’s a significant speed difference in this swap, because you’re moving from the ...

What’s the most effective way to replace a hard drive without losing data? Undoubtedly through a 1-to-1 copy, and disk cloning software can help do that without any hassle. Whether it’s to clone a ...

David R McCullough needs to clone his 1TB hard drive to a 120GB SSD. It’s like moving all your furniture from a big house to a small apartment. I’ve discussed the advantages of installing an SSD while ...

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, ...

For years, hard disk drives have been the standard storage type in computers, but solid-state drives (SSD) are taking over. The main reason for this change is that SSDs offer much more speed than HDDs ...

I have a Linux Mint 16 Petra laptop, the drive is 300GB and it's encrypted with an older version of truecrypt (before all the hub bub happened) Anyway, I enjoy the system but wanted a little more ...

When I first wrote about using solid state drives (SSDs) to radically improve the performance of older Macs, high-capacity SSDs were just beginning to become affordable. Replacing a Mac’s 500GB or 1TB ...