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, ...

Reader Fred wants to know if a laptop hard drive can be plugged into a desktop PC. “The pin out appears to be the same,” he notes, “but there is no separate power-supply connector.” Short answer: yes.

I am heading overseas for a year soon, and am sending my PC with my big shipment of stuff. Is is best practice to remove the hard drives prior to shipping? Can those be sent separately by something ...