If you're upgrading from an HDD to an SSD, make the most of the extra speed it offers by setting the SSD as your boot drive.

With a DIY external SSD, you also get the freedom to repurpose one of your existing SSDs or take the drive apart when you’re done with it to reincorporate the SSD back into, say, your PC or ...

We went hands-on with the top external hard drives available today to determine to help you make the most informed decision while shopping for storage solutions.

Microsoft may no longer support Windows To Go, but you can still make a portable Windows 11 installation — and it actually works okay.

That also helps with keeping the drive cool, and for a PCIe 5.0 SSD, it's pretty decent in that respect, though inevitably not as cool as a Gen 4 drive.