Let's take a quick look at a step-by-step guide detailing how to turn an SSD into a boot drive for your new or existing computer.

What? A boot ssd will still be faster. Unless you really have some strange program that will only install on a boot drive and needs the space. Anyways Win7 has been happy with my 96GB drive.

There are few ways to make a laptop faster that are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD).

When we recently detailed how to boost the storage space in a MacBook Air with a replacement solid state drive module, some readers asked what it would be like to swap the hard drive in an older ...

According to Intel, this 40GB SSD is "aimed for value netbooks and dual-drive desktop PCs as a 'boot drive' to accelerate start up times, the opening of files and overall system performance".

Want to clone your hard drive? Here's a step-by-step guide to take your though the process, as well as recommendations for the best software to use.

This will enable you to boot your PC directly from a USB flash drive, rather than the SSD or hard drive on which your operating system is installed.

You can easily clone a small hard drive to a large one. It's not so easy to clone a large hard drive to an SSD.