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).

So to that end I would like to replace the (I am guessing) 5400 RPM HDD with a SSD and watch it speed up considerably. I don't know where to start with this.

Tech Computers & PCs Laptops How to replace a slow laptop HDD with a far faster and bigger SSD Got an old laptop kicking about that is now just too darn slow to be useful? Well, breathe new life ...

I ripped out the old hard drive and replaced it with an SSD (solid state drive). This absolutely changed everything. My computer is now blazing fast with a solid-state drive and 16GB of RAM.

Drive-ectomy, DIY-style If you're simply swapping out your boot hard drive for an SSD, then the process is the same as replacing your factory-supplied hard drive with a new hard drive.

HDDs used to be the standard for gaming 5-6 years ago, and one of the reasons was that their counterpart — SSDs — were available at highly steep prices.

HDD vs. SSD: The key differences HDD and SSD are both used for storing data, but their functions and benefits are quite distinct.

Flash-based memory is still too expensive to be a data center’s primary storage technology, but solid-state disks may ultimately replace mechanical hard disk drives, says Hitachi Data Systems ...

In this fourth installment of our MacBook Air review series, we pit Apple's standard hard disk drive (HDD) model against the standard solid state drive (SSD) configuration in a set of battery and ...