Thinking about upgrading your computer hard drive? It’s not hard at all If you need some speed, upgrade your computer to a solid-state drive. A hard drive dock from StarTech to mount bare hard drives on your Mac or Windows PC. They were out of space on their drive and wanted to upgrade to a larger solid-state drive. Traditional hard drives use spinning metal disks to hold your data. The data is read by a reading head that looks like the needle from a record player, but hard drive platters spin thousands of times per minute. Solid-state drives use memory chips instead of spinning platters, so there are no moving parts to wear out. And because data can be read faster from memory chips, your computer will work much faster. You’ll be amazed.