Tag: SSD
![OCZ Agility 3 is a Screaming Fast SSD [Review]](http://notebooks.com/wp-content/themes/notebooks/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://notebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Agility3_main-150x150.jpg&w=150&h=150&zc=1 "OCZ Agility 3 is a Screaming Fast SSD [Review]")
OCZ Agility 3 is a Screaming Fast SSD [Review]
The OCZ Agility 3 120GB SSD really cooks! With it, my MacBook Pro feels like a screaming speed demon. The system boots faster and the environment responds instantly. As upgrades go, this one change radically improves using my 2011 15″ MacBook Pro. When I reviewed the MacBook Pro I called it the nicest workhorse notebook I have ever [...]
![MCE Optibay Puts 2nd Hard Drive in SuperDrive’s Seat [Review]](http://notebooks.com/wp-content/themes/notebooks/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://notebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/obreversewdrive090601-150x150.jpg&w=150&h=150&zc=1 "MCE Optibay Puts 2nd Hard Drive in SuperDrive’s Seat [Review]")
MCE Optibay Puts 2nd Hard Drive in SuperDrive’s Seat [Review]
The MCE Optibay opens up the options for MacBook upgrades by replacing the Apple SuperDrive with a hard drive or SSD, depending on your needs and bank account. I was pleased with the results! Combined with the OCZ Agility 3 SSD I reviewed as part of this upgrade process, I have a fast flash drive [...]
![Lenovo Boot or Bust Test: When Boot Time Matters [Video]](http://notebooks.com/wp-content/themes/notebooks/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://notebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lenovo-Rapid-Boot-Parachute-150x150.png&w=150&h=150&zc=1 "Lenovo Boot or Bust Test: When Boot Time Matters [Video]")
Lenovo Boot or Bust Test: When Boot Time Matters [Video]
Manufacturers like to point out fast boot times on notebooks these days, but few go to the extremes Lenovo has to show off the 10 second boot time on Rapid Boot equipped ThinkPad T420s and IdeaPad Y570 notebooks. To show off how fast the ThinkPad T420s can boot, Lenovo strapped a parachute to the notebook, [...]
![How to Replace the MacBook Air SSD with OWC Auro Pro Express 480GB SSD [Review]](http://notebooks.com/wp-content/themes/notebooks/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://notebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/owc_ssd_upgrade04-150x150.jpg&w=150&h=150&zc=1 "How to Replace the MacBook Air SSD with OWC Auro Pro Express 480GB SSD [Review]")
How to Replace the MacBook Air SSD with OWC Auro Pro Express 480GB SSD [Review]
If your 64GB 11.6″ MacBook Air is filling up with your content and software, OWC has a solution. They have released an upgrade path for both the 11.6″ and 13.3″ 2010 MacBook Air ultraportables. These computers come with fast SSDs instead of hard drives. That is what gives you your system’s speed. The drives also [...]
How to Redirect Your Personal Folders in Windows 7
If your system partition, where Windows, applications are installed, personal files and settings exist is beginning to fill up you have a number of options such as freeing up disk space by uninstalling applications or move files from the local drive to an external hard disk. This can be a chore though, because you just [...]
MacBook Air Notebooks Get Faster SSDs, Luck of the Draw
It looks like Apple has quietly upgraded the SSDs used in the popular MacBook Air notebooks with new drives from Samsung that are significantly faster than the previous drives. Anandtech found that on some MacBook Air models, newer notebooks were using a new SSD instead of the Toshiba. The new solid state drives are likely from Samsung [...]
Weekly Wrap Up: Notebook, Tablet and Smart Phone News for April 1
Despite all of the April Fools jokes running wild on the Internet today, there is a lot of real notebook, tablet and smart phone news worth checking out. Notebook News For the Week of April 1st: We kicked off World Backup Day with a collection of deals on services and storage that will help you [...]
How to Enable TRIM Support for SSDs in OS X 10.6.7 With a Click
TRIM is a function with SSDs that helps the operating system know where to write files so that the SSD, to deliver better long life performance for the SSD. TRIM isn’t available in Mac OS X be default, but you can enable TRIM support in Snow Leopard with the handy TRIM Support Enabler. Trim Support Enabler takes [...]
Intel SSD 320 Drives Announced: Larger, Faster, Cheaper
Intel has announced the new Intel SSD 320 Series of solid state drives with higher capacity drives and a 30% price reduction over the previous Intel X25-M models. The new Intel SSD 320 drives deliver 25nm NAND Flash memory and range in size from 40GB up to 600GB and has increased the write speeds up [...]
Hard Drive Prices Over Time: Price per GB from 1981 to 2010
Hard drives keep getting bigger and prices keep falling, but when you look at the per unit prices it’s amazing how much prices have fallen since the early days of computing. David Isenberg took the data from a website that has researched and tracked down the price of a 5MB hard drive from 1956 all the way [...]
