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Question from Mike: First of all, I love your blog, Rick. Your tips have helped me a lot over the years.
Now I need your help with an SSD upgrade if you don’t mind.
I’ve read several of your tips about replacing a hard drive with an SSD.
Some of those tips discuss cloning the contents of a large hard drive to an SSD that has less storage capacity than the hard drive, but my situation is exactly the opposite. [Read more…]
I’ve written several posts in the past explaining how replacing your PC’s hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD) is the best upgrade you can make for the money, and that’s still the case today.
The only real drawback to upgrading to an SSD has always been the real possibility of sacrificing valuable storage space in exchange for an SSD’s blazing speed.
The good news however is the capacities of solid state drives are steadily increasing even as their prices continue to drop.
Nowadays you can buy a super-fast SSD with plenty of storage without having to pay a small fortune. A great example is the Samsung 840 EVO 1TB 2.5-Inch SATA III SSD. [Read more…]
These days replacing your computer’s hard drive with a super-fast solid state drive (SSD) gives you more bang for the buck than just about any upgrade you can make.
Most people will tell you that once you’ve owned a PC that boots from an SSD, you’ll never want to be without one again!
I recently received a Samsung 840 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5-Inch SATA III SSD for review, and I decided to install it in my Gateway desktop PC. In this review I’ll give you my opinion of the drive. [Read more…]