SSD: How to upgrade your computer with a Solid State Hard Drive

SSD Upgrade HowtoIf you haven’t seen Part 1, it’s here:

SSD: Why you need to upgrade your computer with a Solid State Hard Drive

With Part 1 out of the way, you’ve decided to take the plunge. Great!

How do you actually do the upgrade? Well, that can get a bit complicated.

There are a few things you’ll need to know before you even think of a DIY upgrade.

After covering those, I’ll discuss a few options for the different upgrade cases you might encounter.

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SSD: Why you need to upgrade your computer with a Solid State Hard Drive

Why SSDs?Everyone is always looking to make their computer faster, whether they realize it or not. Usually, it’s only after an upgrade that we realize just how pokey our machine was running beforehand.

These days, there isn’t a huge difference between a 2-year-old computer and a brand new one. Oh, sure, newer puters will always be faster… But unless you’re doing something hardcore like video editing or gaming, you probably won’t notice much of a difference.

There is one upgrade, though, that makes a huge difference pretty much across the board: the addition of an SSD.

At this point, you probably have 2 questions:

  • What is an SSD?
  • How do I add one to my puter?

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JavaScript Fun: Looping with a Delay

JavaScript is Awesome!If you’ve ever programmed something in JavaScript, you most likely ran into a situation where you needed a delay.

Normally, we do this with setTimeout().

For repeatedly calling some function every X milliseconds, one would normally use setInterval().

Well, that’s fine. But what if you want to so something 10 times, and delay 3 seconds between iterations?

The solution is not as obvious as it appears…

But it is simple!

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