Call me old-fashioned, but I like to know when my hard drive is active. That’s partly so I know when Windows has more or less finished its boot activity (which, on one aging machine, takes 7-8 minutes ...

There is one upgrade that will universally improve a laptop’s performance: adding an SSD. This is a particularly attractive upgrade for budget laptops, which typically come with a hard drive. That’s ...

Running a solid state drive on your desktop computer has several advantages over using a traditional hard drive. Your computer boots faster, shuts down much more quickly and programs open faster. In ...