Professional SSD Installation & Migration
in Pittsburgh, PA

We clone the existing Windows installation onto the new drive byte-for-byte, including user profile, installed applications, license activations, mapped drives, and the user's pinned tabs. The user sits down to the exact same machine, just faster. No fresh-install productivity hit, no chasing missing applications for a week, no surprise license-reactivation calls.

We verify the M.2 slot keying (B-key, M-key, or B+M), the PCIe lane allocation, the chipset's NVMe support level, and the BIOS revision before quoting parts. Putting an NVMe drive in a SATA-only M.2 slot is a real customer story we routinely fix; we don't repeat the mistake. Where NVMe is the right answer we use it; where SATA M.2 or 2.5-inch SATA is what the chassis supports, we say so.

Before-and-after boot time, application launch latency, and disk queue depth measured and documented. The customer sees the numbers (2-minute boot to 15-second boot is the common result on 2018-era HDD-equipped business laptops) rather than just being told it should feel faster. Becomes part of the asset record.

Old drives are wiped to NIST 800-88 standards with a written record (drive serial, machine asset tag, wipe verification hash, date, technician). For HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and CMMC environments this is the compliance artifact that proves PHI or cardholder data didn't leave the building on a discarded drive. For everyone else it's the cheap insurance that turns a $90 part swap into a defensible disposal record.

For multi-machine SSD rollouts, drives are imaged and verified on a bench in advance of any user interruption. The actual swap takes 20-30 minutes including post-swap boot verification, instead of the all-day downtime a per-machine fresh-install would require. Standard pipeline for offices rolling five or more SSDs at once.

We size the SSD to the workload, not to whatever's cheapest. Samsung 870 EVO or 990 PRO, Crucial MX500 / T705, and Kingston DC600M / DC2000B for environments that need power-loss protection (PLP) and high TBW endurance. Critical for servers, NAS replacements, and write-heavy professional applications (CAD, video, large database workstations) where consumer-tier drives wear out fast.