The boot drive is the most fundamental of all the drives your PC may use, as it contains the operating system. Whether it's a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD), it has everything your ...

You can still make an external macOS bootable drive, but Apple's tighter security procedures mean you have to prepare for it ...

My Macbook Pro 2,2 was getting a bit long in the tooth and felt slow and started to really grind using Pixelmator. I can't really justify a new laptop, and I stumbled across using an SSD expresscard ...

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, ...

Gilbert wants to know if he should upgrade his boot drive SSD and also wants our opinion on the rest of his rig. Hi gents, and thanks for the section and advice. I have a three-year-old custom build I ...

When something goes wrong with your Mac, it's a boon to have a separate, external drive that you can work from — but Apple no longer makes that easy. Here's how to do it. The short answer to how you ...

Recently picked up a jasper lake (n5105) celeron powered mini pc with windows 11 preinstalled for cheap and was looking to repurpose it as a nas. I have a pre-existing SSD boot drive running windows ...