It’s a shame that such a large percentage of laptops still come with slow, 5400 RPM, mechanical hard drives. A solid state hard drive not only boosts performance substantially, but also improves ...

My Lenovo Thinkpad laptop is almost 4 years old. It still functions well but the original Samsung 256GB M.2 SSD hard drive installed in the laptop is almost full, requiring me to keep a lot of files I ...

I have a 4 year old Asus K53TA (AMD A6) laptop that didn't like the Win10 migration I put it through, and also has a hard drive which is pretty slow. It's a 500GB platter drive split 45/55 into two ...

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, ...

Is it worth it to upgrade a laptop’s RAM or storage? We had a chance to find out when Dell asked us to test the upgradability of its Inspiron 15 7000. I admit that as I faced this challenge, I started ...

SSD problems can make your PC entirely unusable. Here's how I dealt with an SSD that caused 30-minute-long boot times.