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.

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.

If you're upgrading from an HDD to an SSD, make the most of the extra speed it offers by setting the SSD as your boot drive.

Upgrading your laptop to a solid-state drive (or a better one) is a great way to improve performance. Here's how to do it yourself.

Use Disk Management to easily set up a new hard drive, SSD, or USB stick under Windows.

When I first wrote about using solid state drives (SSDs) to radically improve the performance of older Macs, high-capacity SSDs were just beginning to become affordable. Replacing a Mac’s 500GB ...

If your desktop is running out of storage space on your current drive or you want to upgrade an existing hard disk drive to a far faster SSD, it's a really simple and inexpensive process to add a ...

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.

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 ...