Perhaps the biggest bottleneck on your desktop and laptop is probably storage as drives typically operate at lower speeds than any other component on the computer. This means that switching from a traditional hard drive (HDD) to a Solid-State Drive (SSD) is the single best upgrade to make your device feel faster. The reason is that traditional hard drives use moving parts, and SSDs don’t, and as a result, these drives can read and write data more quickly. However, even though, any available SSD will deliver a significant improvement over any rotating platter hard drive, there are many brands and models, and each one will offer noticeable variation in performance. If your computer is getting slow, or it’s due for an upgrade, the Samsung SSD EVO 860 is a great choice. I’ve been using two of these drives on my primary machine for more than a year, and they have been working flawlessly to run multiple virtual machines simultaneously. This drive model comes in 250GB, 500GB (recommended), 1TB, 2TB, and even 4TB. It’s powered by Samsung V-NAND Technology, and it offers sequential read/write speeds up to 550MB/s and 520MB/s respectively, which is more than enough to make any device feel faster.
