“We had two objectives with the SATA Wire upgrade: make the upgrade process FASTER and EASIER,” said Mike McCandless, VP of Sales & Marketing at Apricorn. “With a super-fast USB 3.0 interface and the ...

Solid-state drives are all the rage. Since SSDs have no moving parts, they’re more rugged and shock-resistant than standard hard drives–which makes them perfect for laptops that get bumped around a ...

Looking to turbocharge an aging laptop? A solid-state drive not only is effective but can be downright cheap. SATA, M.2 SSDs, PCI Express, NVMe: Here's everything to know about laptop SSD upgrades, ...

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If your trusty notebook's more than a year or two old, the hard drive is probably bursting at the seams. Hitachi's Notebook PC Upgrade Kit lets you swap in a new drive with up to 160GB of storage. But ...

The Travelstar Notebook PC Upgrade Kit from Hitachi makes upgrading storage on a portable PC so simple it's being targeted at consumers. Yet VARs will also appreciate its simplicity, given that many ...

The ROG GL552 represents ASUS' entry point into gaming laptops, and mixes decent graphical power with affordability and solid construction. The base model is pretty well equipped, but ASUS also makes ...

That was 15 years ago. Today there are many good reasons for upgrading a hard drive. With the recent introduction of new hard-drive technologies such as SATA, Native Command Queuing (NCQ), larger ...

While Microsoft touted the serviceability of the SSD inside the Surface Laptop 3 and Surface Pro X at the launch, Microsoft Store service agents tell PCWorld that the drive is replaceable, but not ...

Don't replace your aging computer just yet. These five affordable gadgets can boost performance, improve ergonomics, and give your old laptop a new life.

Whether you wanted to save some money during the initial laptop purchase, the manufacturer you purchased your laptop from only offered hard-disk drive (HDD) options, or you're fixing up a laptop from ...