When shopping for an SSD it’s important to know which form-factor fits your system. SSDs come in a bunch of shapes and sizes.

Disk access times can make a big difference in many applications, with the bulk of this cost coming from a hard drive's seek time, rotational time and transfer time delay. Free software can test the ...

SATA is the abbreviated form of Serial Advanced Technology Attachment. The current standard technology for connecting a hard drive or SSD to the rest of the computer. SATA is a single cable with a ...

Page 2: Samsung SSD 870 EVO: More Benchmarks And Our Verdict Samsung is expanding their line-up of SATA-based solid state drives, with a new series of products designed to balance performance and ...

Our benchmark suite puts solid-state drives and hard drives to the ultimate test. Here's how PC Labs runs and reports its storage benchmarks—and what they mean to you. Since 2004, I have worked on ...

There are many ways to make a slow laptop faster, but few are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD). Making the swap will, in most cases, ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) is capable of delivering up to four times the speed of SATA SSDs with the new WD Blue SN550 NVMe SSD. The newest member of the ...

In any case, a modern SSD on SATA II is still faster than an era-appropriate HDD, but it's not faster than a modern HDD. So you may want to consider just getting a WD Black, it should be able to ...