By adding a solid-state drive to a budget laptop, either as a hard-drive replacement or companion, you can realize noticeable gains and get additional life from your portable PC.

The hard drive is the permanent storage area of the Acer computer. An SSD hard drive runs fast, but it costs more than a traditional HDD hard drive.

Acer does sell a hard drive version of the Aspire One. But Tnkgrl points out that the hard drive used in that model is a 2.5″ standard laptop drive, which adds weight to the notebook and ...

With the standard hard drive, the laptop booted in 54.59 seconds and shut down in 17.94 seconds. With the SSD in place, it took 38.71 seconds to start up and 13 seconds to shut down.

Your computer constantly uses empty hard drive space for temporary memory, so it’s not just about having enough space to save your data. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.

Once you have the drive out, you’ll need a dock to connect a bare drive to your computer via USB. You can buy a dock online for around $25. The dock will power the drive and you’ll know pretty ...

The front door swings open to expose four hot-swappable 3.5-inch drive bays, the bottom of which is occupied by a 1TB SATA hard drive. Drives can be added or removed without ever having to power ...

That's likely due to the C7's spinning hard drive — Acer picked more storage over faster speeds, and on an always-connected device like this I'd rather have the speed. It resumes from sleep ...

Which Acer laptop is best? Shopping for a new laptop is a miserable experience. Unless you’re a computer whiz, all the terms swim around your head without making sense. Hard drive read and write ...

A man’s Acer Inc. laptop randomly crashed without any explanation, causing confusion as to why the computer died—the reason he thinks his laptop failed? His warranty ended three years prior ...

Which Acer laptop is best? Shopping for a new laptop is a miserable experience. Unless you’re a computer whiz, all the terms swim around your head without making sense. Hard drive read and write ...