Most desktop PC drive bays are sized for 3.5-inch drives, so you should buy a 2.5-inch drive adapter for mounting. Again, the brand doesn't matter – it's just a piece of metal to screw your ...

Let's take a quick look at a step-by-step guide detailing how to turn an SSD into a boot drive for your new or existing ...

Running a solid state drive on your desktop computer has several advantages over using a traditional hard drive. Your computer boots faster, shuts down much more quickly and programs open faster ...

Note that for a desktop, as an option, you can skip this adapter and install the SSD as a secondary internal drive for the cloning process, which works much faster than connecting via USB. And ...

And as I just mentioned, if it’s a 2.5-inch drive, you buy a kit with the SSD rather than the bare drive, [that] allows you to put it in the spare [often 3.5-inch] bay in the machine.

A SATA SSD will cost you half the price of another drive (about $20 instead of $50), but it gives you less speed. The choice is yours. Check that your SSD is suitable for installing Windows 11. To do ...