The boot drive is the most fundamental of all the drives your PC may use, as it contains the operating system. Whether it's a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD), it has everything ...

I'm thinking of getting a SSD boot drive for my Mac Pro, but I have no idea how I would put my OS and apps on it and put my data + home directly on a separate hard-drive.Can someone give me a step ...

Boot your PC with the USB drive as the primary storage, select the SSD when prompted, and follow the instructions on-screen. Is it OK to use SSD and HDD together?

If you're trying to install a new operating system or flash your BIOS, you're going to need a bootable USB drive - here's how to make one.

We asked major SSD vendors to send us a selection of drives for use as boot disks for a mainstream business notebook. We received the following: Corsair Nova 128GB Intel 80GB X25-M Intel 40GB X25 ...

Consider the case of your main Windows boot drive. It's integral to using your PC, and if it fails you're in a predicament.

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.

While windows 8.1 does prioritize SSD storage, it may need some tweaking to get it working properly.