Any hard drive is bound to fail eventually. We show you how to check a drive's health, using SMART, chkdsk, and other tools at your disposal.

You can speed up your PC and laptop by cloning HDD to SSD free. But Windows does not come with a free disk clone tool. Fortunately, there are some great free SSD cloning utilities to clone HDD to ...

Adding a second hard drive or SSD to your gaming PC is easy. Provided that you've got room to physically house the drive at any rate. If you've got a laptop then actually squeezing the drive ...

Note: Before you attempt to clone your hard drive or SSD, w e highly recommend backing up all your data first.

There are few ways to make a laptop faster that are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD).

See If Your Windows Disk Has Any Potential Problems To test the SSD or HDD on your Windows computer for potential problems, you can use multiple native tools. One of the most flexible ones is chkdsk.

My SSD-equipped iMac is now seeing roughly 500MB/second read and write speeds, a solid 5 times faster than it was with a hard disk. What About Trim?

You can then also restore your partition from a clone using Disk Utility as well. Also read: How to partition a Mac hard drive or SSD, or create a APFS volume and Best disk partition software for Mac.

There are few ways to make a laptop faster that are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD).