The Samsung SSD upgrade kit I bought came with Norton Ghost 15–a utility that would copy the entire contents of my existing hard drive to the new drive–on CD.

How to choose a laptop based on HDD, SSD, CD, DVD and Blu-ray options Reviewed by Michael Barton Heine Jr Reviewed by Michael Barton Heine Jr Modern laptops are moving away from mechanical drives ...

But if you’re going to have both the SSD and original hard drive in your Mac, you could pick a smaller SSD for OS X and your apps, keeping your music, photos, and videos on the old hard drive.

Replacing an ancient mechanical drive with a super-speedy solid-state drive is one of the best upgrades you can make to a desktop or laptop computer.