The 120GB Emtec SSD Power Plus ($50) is an inexpensive internal solid-state drive (SSD) that's a good choice if you're looking to extend the life of a laptop for a couple more years. It's no speed ...

Thumb drive makers have managed to cram quite a bit into the pinky-sized drives, but there are limits to capacity and to some degree performance, since there is only so much room to work with.

ATTO is another "quick and dirty" type of disk benchmark that measures transfer speeds across a specific volume length. It measures raw transfer rates for both reads and writes and graphs them out in ...