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, ...

I'm finally going with an SSD in my new Win 7 64-bit box. I'm thinking 180 GB is the minimum I should consider for an SSD boot drive. On an aging Vista box, the boot drive sizes to around 60GB and ...

If you're still using a hard drive as your main boot drive, you could really benefit from moving Windows to another drive — preferably a solid-state drive. To keep your existing data as is but enjoy ...

When I swapped out my hard drive for an SSD, my Windows boot time dropped from a very-painful almost 10 minutes to well under a minute. And programs like Adobe Photoshop that could take a minute or ...