There are few ways to make a laptop faster that are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD).

Need a new external backup drive or more internal storage for a laptop or desktop? This guide can help you make the best choice.

Got an old laptop kicking about that is now just too darn slow to be useful? Well, breathe new life into it by following T3's laptop HDD to SSD installation guide.

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.

For example, booting up a computer with an SSD can take less than 10 seconds, while the same process on an HDD might take over a minute.

It boots & works fine, but the basic computer is so slow to begin with that it's hard to detect much of a speedup with the SSD.

Theoretically, if I were to tear down my iMac, and I wanted to replace the SSD part of a Fusion Drive with a larger part, could I take just the SSD out, put it in adapter, and then dd the contents ...