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?

Use an SSD for your operating system and applications to enjoy fast boot times and speedy performance, and keep an HDD around for bulk storage where speed isnâ t as crucial.

Microsoft has plans to do this by 2023, so we should expect the world of all-SSD PCs of the future by next year.

Was doing the review for the Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid Hard Drive and the OCZ Vertex 3 SSD, and I really needed to do a boot time comparison for the Seagate Momentus XT, so I decided why not do ...

Apple upgrades your startup drive if itu2019s a pure SSD, but not otherwise; you can opt in external SSDs and HDDs.