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If you’re weighing up the differences between an SSD and HDD for PC gaming – we’ve covered the essentials for you here. SSDs have been around for a while now, but for many still gaming on a HDD (Hard ...

There has been a rather large emphasis on SSD’s as of late. The big manufacturers like Intel, OCZ and Crucial have all been working hard releasing their new series of drives. Theses drives offer ...

Imagine this: you’re working on an important project, and your computer suddenly slows to a crawl. Files take forever to open, applications lag, and frustration mounts. The culprit? Your storage drive ...

A HDD (Hard Disk Drive) is the hardware element that permanently stores your data on the computer. Unlike RAM, the data stored on the hard drive does not disappear when you turn off your PC. HDDs ...

Surprising results show that HDDs may not be the energy hogs many thought them to be. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Testing by ...

It's a well-known fact that solid-state drives (SSDs) are faster and superior to old mechanical hard drive disks, which are more commonly called HDDs (via Enterprise Storage Platform). An archaic ...

Primary storage devices directly connected to the computer's main bus have excellent latency and throughput, but on the other hand, they have the problem of small capacity. If you are focusing on the ...

In this fourth installment of our MacBook Air review series, we pit Apple's standard hard disk drive (HDD) model against the standard solid state drive (SSD) configuration in a set of battery and ...