Want to speed up your laptop and lengthen its battery life? Swap the hard disk drive out for a speedy solid-state drive.

By adding a solid-state drive to a budget laptop, either as a hard-drive replacement or companion, you can realize noticeable gains and get additional life from your portable PC.

Adding SSD to laptop and desktop computers: What form factor, MLC or SLC, SATA or AHCI, and what are the key stages of installation? We answer your questions in this podcast.

How to Add a Solid-State Disk (SSD) to a Desktop Computer. Running a solid state drive on your desktop computer has several advantages over using a traditional hard drive. Your computer boots ...

Boot time and OS responsiveness will vastly improve If your laptop is old enough to use a 2.5-inch HDD as its storage drive, swapping it out for a SATA SSD will make a huge difference in overall ...

But as several readers have noted, there is another way to add an SSD to your Mac: you can keep your old hard drive, and instead replace the Mac’s CD/DVD optical drive, also known as a SuperDrive.