Deep discounts on all kinds of drives from top brands like Samsung, Western Digital, Toshiba and more are waiting for you to ...

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 ...

SATA drives are the older standard of SSD, based on the old 2.5-inch hard drive format, in terms of both physical shape and the connection standard.

Last week, I wrote about how a solid-state drive can really speed up your computer. I got more than a few emails asking about SSD pricing — solid-state drives are more expensive than traditional ...

The best external SSDs offer speeds that just aren't possible with older external hard drives. They're also lighter, more reliable and a bit more expensive.

Compared with standard hard drives, SSDs are capable of reduced latency, which translates into greater speed in accessing data. ... Leading the way was Intel’s X25-M Solid State Drive 160GB.

Comparing SSDs and hard drives. I tested an SSD and a popular, well-performing consumer hard drive to see how they rate for performance, cost, and general usability: the Intel Solid-State Drive ...

Solid-state hard drives trade the rapidly spinning magnetic platters and multiple moving read/write heads of a traditional hard drive for a bank of the same type of memory chips used in USB drives ...

Adding a second hard drive or SSD to your gaming PC is easy. ... (HDD) or a 2.5-inch Solid State Drive (SSD), then you'll need a power cable and a SATA cable.

A solid state hard drive. I used the Intel X-25M, which has worked wonderfully. Any SSD should work as long as it's compatible with and bootable on a Mac.