If you're tired of waiting for your computer to boot up or your programs to load, then you want a solid-state drive (SSD) in your machine. If you've used a laptop with an SSD, you know how quickly ...

The first SSD I ever used was the Samsung 860 EVO — a 250GB SATA drive that was a phenomenal upgrade over my hard drive back ...

Windows: If you're installing a Solid-State Drive (SSD), you probably won't be able to migrate your entire drive over, since SSDs tend to be smaller. Migrate OS to SSD will let you specify which ...

My Google-fu is failing me. I have my OS split onto an SSD, with my data on another drive. I have my Home folder on the SSD, also, but the Documents, Movies, Music, etc. are on the second drive.

The new MacBook Pros are approaching the rumored February 24th release date, with several retailers sold out and various Apple online stores reporting shipments within 3-5 business days – a timeframe ...

IGN recently confirmed the Xbox Series X's 1TB SSD only offers about 800GB of usable space for games. This means the system reserves roughly 14% of total SSD space for OS and other features like quick ...

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Over the past year, our understanding of SSD technology has advanced at a dramatic pace. In theory, SSDs are a massive and total improvement over hard disks. No longer would the system have to wait ...

Pretty much every operating system in use these days supports TRIM—a special ATA command that the OS sends along to an SSD when deleting files on that SSD. The lone exception to that list has been ...

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