Whether it's a self-built gaming machine or a fresh-from-the-store office PC, the right BIOS/UEFI settings can make a world ...

I'm plotting my first native NVMe build, and intend to reuse the existing Windows 10 install on a Samsung 850 EVO SSD. I haven't done this before, and falling back on "just reinstall from cold" is an ...

Upgrading a computer's boot drive from a traditional hard drive to an SSD is one of the single best performance upgrades ever. But, if you're like many of us, when you did it SSDs were expensive, and ...

Solid-state drives (SSD) are a faster upgrade to the traditional hard disk drives (HDD). SSDs beat HDDs, not only in speed but also in performance and durability. This post isn’t about how great SSDs ...

High prices for solid-state disks (SSDs) have historically restricted the business market to enterprises requiring performance for large databases or financial services, where microseconds really ...

The BIOS (basic input/output system) firmware is being replaced by the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) standard interface for PCs – designed to improve software interoperability and ...

These days, it's fairly easy to find a PCI Express-based SSD to transform one's desktop -- Angelbird, Fusion-io, Micron and ASUS will sell you one, just to name a few. That said, the last of those ...