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 ...

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.

I was thinking, though: how would that work with the boot drive, the regular drive and the optical drive if the Sandy Bridge chipset only has two workable SATA channels?