Reader Fred wants to know if a laptop hard drive can be plugged into a desktop PC. “The pin out appears to be the same,” he notes, “but there is no separate power-supply connector.” Short answer: yes.

CNET editor Dong Ngo shows how you can replace your computer's hard drive with a solid-state drive and be significantly ...

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