The 4 ways I speed up a sluggish SSD on a PC or Mac

You probably don’t need me to tell you that the leap from a platter-based hard drive to an SSD can be dramatic. I remember when I first made the jump — I was impressed by Windows booting in about a minute, never mind near-instant file transfers. More recently, the shift from SATA SSDs to NVMe tech has been equally significant, to the point that PC makers have decided to drop SATA like a hot stone.