High prices for solid-state disks (SSDs) have historically restricted the business market to enterprises requiring performance for large databases or financial services, where microseconds really ...

Partitioning a new SSD that's installed on your PC is a fairly simple process, and it has various benefits. Having separate partitions allows you to store personal data away from the OS files, so you ...

I'm upgrading a Win 8.1 laptop's SSD (Samsung Ativ Book 9) to a new 2TB drive for a family member, and I have a question about which, if any, recovery partitions I should copy over, or just allow ...

When you turn on your PC, a lot goes behind the scene, starting with the detection of connected hardware. When you have multiple external drives or USB HDD connected to a PC, the UEFI or BIOS will ...

Was doing the review for the Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid Hard Drive and the OCZ Vertex 3 SSD, and I really needed to do a boot time comparison for the Seagate Momentus XT, so I decided why not do it in ...

Upgrading to a new SSD usually means one of two things: either spend hours reinstalling Windows and all your programs, or clone your existing drive and be done in 30 minutes. If you've been putting ...

A new report says that OEMs have said that Microsoft is pushing OEMs to not support HDDs as the primary storage device in pre-built Windows 11 PCs, using much faster SSDs in their place. Microsoft has ...

While doing some disk swapping yesterday, I kinda screwed things up. I had used Clonezilla to clone my 500GB SSD to a 1TB SSD and that went off without a hitch. Unplugged old system drive and the ...