One of the things a thin and light laptop needs to qualify as an ultrabook is a solid state disk. These SSDs are faster than traditional hard drives, and they use less power and generate less heat.

Several years ago, we published our first SSD Optimization Guide for Windows 7, which was very popular among our readers. At the time, SSDs, or Solid State Drives, were still a relatively new product ...

Moving the browser cache to a RAM disk can have some benefits. For example, you can speed up browsing and reduce the wear and tear of the SSD. SoftPerfect Cache Relocator, a tiny and portable utility, ...

The Windows 7 boot time test starts when the OS loading screen appears and ends when the Windows desktop is fully loaded. On the first run the Crucial Adrenaline performed much like the Western ...

Like the RevoDrive Hybrid, the brains behind the Synapse's caching functionality is a third-party software utility dubbed Dataplex. OCZ doesn't include the software ...

Does your PC feel slow today? Microsoft is reporting that the latest update to Windows 11 may be slowing down copying files on your PC’s SSD, yet again. In the support notes attached to the Windows 11 ...

Is there any way to teach windows not to use gigabytes of memory as file cache while pushing everything including an active Firefox and Explorer itself out to the swap file? A simple copy paste job ...

It's not always the drive, it's also what controls it.

When solid-state drives first broke into the consumer market, there were those who predicted the new storage format would supplant hard drives in a matter of years thanks to radically improved ...

On this page we want to share some thoughts on the installation. The dynamic is really simple. you can add the SSD to an existing HDD based setup. In our case a PC ...

Where I was a tiny bit skeptical about the RevoDrive Hybrid I seem to enjoy this solution all the better. So here's a little story, all our test system these days run of an SSD with applications ...