Swapping out your old spinning hard disk drive for an SSD is one of the best upgrades you can make to speed up your computer in today's age. Not only will it boot the operating system faster, but ...

The chances are that the vast majority of people who have upgraded to Windows 11 probably already have it installed on an SSD. SSD ownership (when compared to HDD) is, after all, very much on the up.

HDD and SSD are both used for storing data, but their functions and benefits are quite distinct. Let's break down the key differences between the two to help you understand which one might be the ...

You don't need some super-fast, next-gen PCIe 5.0-based SSD but even a basic 2.5-inch SATA SSD is world's better than a mechanical HDD. Microsoft knows this, we know this, OEMs know this.

Analysts say Microsoft is in talks with its OEM partners to transition from HDD to SSD as its main storage component by 2023.

Boot your PC with the USB drive as the primary storage, select the SSD when prompted, and follow the instructions on-screen. Is it OK to use SSD and HDD together?

I'm not familiar with Optane, but I know that Samsung SSDs have (at least in the past) come with some very easy to use software which will clone a boot drive over to the new SSD and leave it ...

While there are some exceptions, most people today prefer a much speedier SSD for booting into the OS, which could be a good thing as Microsoft reportedly wants to kill off HDD boot drives entirely.

Bottom line: In addition to the quarterly reports on HDD failure rates published by Backblaze, the cloud backup and storage company has now added SSD boot drives to its data starting with Q1 2021.