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 ...

SSDs have a number of advantages over hard drives. They’re almost always faster. They have no moving parts, which also makes them quieter, more energy efficient, and more durable – if you drop a ...

Solid state memory has come a long way in the last few years. So while flash memory modules (including SD cards, Compact Flash cards, 2.5″ SSDs, and the chips that are soldered onto Eee PC, Acer ...

Absolutely. I wouldn't just get a "boot SSD". It's too much of a hassle to figure out what to try to fit on there. Then with growing RAM and pagefile sizes, system restore, hyberfiles, it's just a ...

Upgrading a computer's boot drive from a traditional hard drive to an SSD is one of the single best performance upgrades ever. But, if you're like many of us, when you did it SSDs were expensive, and ...

Silicon Motion Technology Corporation (NasdaqGS: SIMO) ("Silicon Motion"), a global leader in designing and marketing NAND flash controllers for solid-state storage devices, today announced that it ...

Gilbert wants to know if he should upgrade his boot drive SSD and also wants our opinion on the rest of his rig. Hi gents, and thanks for the section and advice. I have a three-year-old custom build I ...

A new report has revealed that Microsoft is pushing OEMs to make SSDs a compulsory storage device for booting on upcoming PCs, suggesting that SSDs may become a requirement for next-gen Windows 11.

I'm guessing you already know the importance of backing up your PC. Using the 3-2-1 backup rule to secure all your data is something each of us should seriously consider. Another thing I highly ...