But as several readers have noted, there is another way to add an SSD to your Mac: you can keep your old hard drive, and instead replace the Mac’s CD/DVD optical drive, also known as a SuperDrive.

Switch drive letters with your old HDD making the SSD the boot or "C" drive. Reboot and select "Run from DVD or CD ROM drive." Install your operating system and copy your files to the new SSD drive.

An external hard drive enclosure or dock Bootable disk imaging software 3a. A flash drive to boot from if your laptop is missing a CD drive 1. SSD ...

Reattach the smaller hard drive cable to the SSD, then use the other Torx screws to attach the bracketed SSD in the iMac. Tuck the thermal sensor’s body off to the edge of the SSD.

Notebook storage is a conundrum, and not only because of the confusion of acronyms and abbreviations (see headline, above). Your hard-drive is capacious but slow compared to an SSD (solid-state ...

A solid-state drive is one of the best upgrades you can make to your desktop computer. And it’s not very hard to set up: Physically install it, connect the right cables, and reinstall Windows ...

Five ways to add SSD speed to your laptop without losing storage capacity Using an SSD and a hard drive together offers both speed and storage space. But most laptops won't let you install two drives.

Adding a second hard drive or SSD to your gaming PC is easy. Provided that you've got room to physically house the drive at any rate. If you've got a laptop then actually squeezing the drive ...