Walt Mossberg weighs in on the Solid State Drive (SSD) vs Hard Disk Drive (HDD) debate. The issue has become relevant now that Apple offers a SSD option on the MacBook Air, and this feature will ...

Derek is a writer and marketing pro specializing in communicating complex or technical issues in a way that is accessible to wider audiences. When it comes to selecting the PCs, laptops and servers ...

Let's do a synthetic test with Sandra, just to see if we can match the results we've seen in HD Tach. What SANDRA also does (important for an HDD) is to test at several positions of the HD. See, at ...

After Tom’s Hardware released their benchmark testing, the folks over at LaptopMag decided to experiment for themselves. They saw that Tom’s Hardware’s findings were contrary to their own when they ...

PCMark vantage has a very good test suite to benchmark storage performance. The software will look at items you normally do with your PC and will try to measure what kind of an effect that has on your ...

When on the hunt for a new PC or external hard drive, you’ll likely see two different storage options: Traditional hard disk drive (HDD) and solid-state drive (SSD). Deciding on the best one for your ...

The main points one needs to know about the Hard Disk Drives are as follows: Hard disks contain several disks that rotate and as many heads that move forward and backward on each disk to read/write ...

The hardware tinkerers at Tested installed three different hard drives in a PlayStation 4 to uncover the benefits of each. In the nine-minute video above, you'll see Tested pit the PS4's standard 500 ...

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 ...