Updated 1/20/2023 with new recommendations for SSD drives and cables based on current models, pricing, and reviews, as well as updated drive cloning instructions There are many ways to make a slow ...

Disclaimer: this is on my Hackintosh. I have a dinky hard drive in my HacPro, and would like to replace it with a recently acquired 2TB drive. I have copied the disk using Disk Utility and SuperDuper, ...

As NAND flash prices continue to plummet, vendors are piling into the solid-state disk (SSD) market in hopes that SSDs will supplement or even replace hard-disk drives in computers. But analysts ...

I've been doing some computer upgrades at work this week, and that includes replacing some computer hard drives. I've been replacing older hard drives (with spinning platters to store data) with solid ...

Father Tom Gillespie (a father, not a Father) seeks advice to help his son. He writes: My son bought a PowerBook in 2005. It works fine except for a crashed disk drive. Our local Apple Store wanted ...

I have a 4TB WD red drive that started acting odd. It seemed to be gobbling up space, the drive said it was full, so I would delete 20-60GB and after downloading 10-20GB the drive would be full again.

Budget SSD maker Adata won’t be found among our selections for the top SSDs of 2018. But if you haven’t ditched your pokey hard drive yet, the ludicrously low prices of Adata’s 2.5-inch Ultimate SU655 ...

Mea culpa. If you bought a MacBook between 2006 and 2007 and your hard drive sounds like an unoiled rock tumbler trying to work its way through a belly full of rusty bolts, you could be eligible for a ...

It never ceases to amaze me how quickly hard disk space is consumed. Roughly about a year ago, I replaced my primary desktop PC with a newer one. Since I don't actually save any data on my PC, I opted ...

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston talked a big game this week when he announced new ways for apps to save and load user data. More than just a set of developer tools, Houston billed the new Dropbox Platform as ...

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, ...