After using SSD on one of my PC and missing the blazingly fast speeds of it on my Apple Mac computer, I finally decided to get the iMac upgraded to SSD. To get data migrated from the old iMac Disk to my new Samsung EVO 850 SSD, I connected both to my other system running Windows 10. I installed and tried 3 popular data migration utilities on the Windows 10 PC which claimed to get the HDD to SSD migration job done, but all of them failed to recognise and clone the HFS+ (Mac OS X Partition) from the Bootcamped dual-boot configured iMac HDD.

Luckily, my memory served me on time and I went ahead using excellent, free "HDD Raw Copy Tool" utility for Windows to get the old HDD disk cloned as an exact one-to-one copy without any partition issue. We have used the same tool earlier to make compressed backup copies of Raspberry Pi SD-Card.

We are all aware of amazing impact of SSD's on a computer's speed, just imagine the boost to possibilities of portable computing with availability of new "Samsung 840 EVO mSATA SSD" disks boasting the industry's first one Terabyte solid-state disk drive all packed inside an ultra-light and ultra-thin form-factor sizing just 3.85mm in thickness with an weight of just 8.5 grams.

We have seen impact of SSD disks on computer performance , and if you have already got one here is an handy tool to optimize it for full throughput.

SSD FRESH 2013 is a free tool for Windows users allowing them to optimize small tweaks to increase the overall performance and life of their Solid State Drive (SSD) on Windows.