The data transfer cable is what you will use to clone your existing hard drive onto your new SSD using your laptop’s USB port. All the cables are pretty much the same, and you can pick one up ...

Patrick Couzens asked about using both a solid state drive (SSD) and a hard disk drive (HDD) in the same computer. I think this is an excellent idea. It gives you most of the speed advantages of ...

In other words, if you want to upgrade your laptop and it only takes M.2 SSDs, it doesn’t matter which is better: you’re going to need an M.2 SSD. If you do have the freedom to choose, you ...

The fastest hard drives can read and write data at about 200MB per second, as we said earlier, and they access data in a few milliseconds. Compare that to high-performing SATA III solid-state ...

The same goes for adding new files to the drive, ... then use a hard drive. Otherwise, you’ll benefit from using an SSD. I’m keeping my hard drive, by the way.

Under the MediaType column, you'll be able to see if a drive is an HDD or an SSD. You can also see how much total storage space your drives have and a general abstraction of their current health ...