Booting from old SSD

[williamj2543]

Hello TomsHardware community,
I am purchasing a Mushkin Chronos 480GB solid state drive right now (great deal right now) and I am using a SATA3 to USB 3.0 converter right now for my mac to use as a scratch disk. I will be building a computer soon, and want to use the SSD as a boot disk for faster boot times and overall faster performance. I will also have a 3TB 7200rpm mechanical hard drive for storing larger things. Do I have to have a clean SSD for booting, or can I use one with stuff on it already.
-William

 

[jnkweaver]

As long as your operating system recognizes the SSD format, you can have data already on the SSD

 

[MotherFerJones]

Just make sure to save enough room on the SSD for the OS in your future build, but 480GB is a lot to work with unless your using it for movie/game storage. If you can, i would recommend making a 100GB partition right when you get it just to set it aside.