There are many ways to make a slow laptop faster, but few are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD). Making the swap will, in most cases, ...

We all need to start from scratch sometimes and if you're building a new PC, chances are you'll need to learn how to make a bootable USB drive. This will enable you to boot your PC directly from a USB ...

Windows once had a native "Windows to Go" feature, but it had specific hardware requirements that made it a bit unpopular. Luckily, you can still create a portable ...

I decided to upgrade from a Crucial 128 GB m4 SSD (from about 2012) to a 256GB m550 (they were on sale last week), and wanted to clone my current installation (Win7 SP1 Pro) to the new drive using ...

Solid-state drives (SSD) are a faster upgrade to the traditional hard disk drives (HDD). SSDs beat HDDs, not only in speed but also in performance and durability. This post isn’t about how great SSDs ...

If you've ever tried to jam a regular SSD into your Mac, then you'll know that many off-the-shelf drives feel like they're tailored and tested for, ahem, someone else. Not so with OWC's Mercury ...