There are few ways to make a laptop faster that are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD).

How to Connect/Install A Hard Drive to Your Computer After deciding on a proper disk cloning tool, the next step is to connect the new SSD or HDD to your computer, which may vary based on your device.

The original partition on the SSD was a dd copy from the old HDD a year ago so I strongly suspect a partition alignment issue that the newer versions of Disk Utility take into account when ...