Boot Drives?

[Dragon05555]

I know almost nothing about boot drives, and I can't seem to find much about them. A colleague of mine tells me that they are hard drives reserved just for booting up programs and systems faster.

I have another question as well. I recently swapped out hard drives in my ps3, and now I have an extra 2.5" 40GB HDD laying around. Can I use this as a boot drive? How would one go about doing that?

I was originally going to buy an SSD to do the job but in order to save money this would be much more cost-effective. But if I do get an SSD down the line, would it be a problem adding that as a boot drive?

 

[strollin]

A boot drive is simply the drive your OS boots from, there isn't anything different about a boot drive than any other drive except that it has been made bootable by adding some additional files to it.

What your colleague may have been referring to is the practice of using an SSD as a boot drive since an SSD has faster load times than an HDD. Many people are now using a smaller (60G or so) SSD to install OS and apps with a larger HDD for storing data.

You could use that old 40G as a boot drive but I can't think of any real advantage to using it.