Installing an SSD in your PC is quick and straightforward, and can give your PC a big performance boost. Here's how to do it.

Our guide will walk you through the complete step-by-step process of buying, installing, and formatting a new budget-focused SSD for your Windows desktop.

If you're using an old internal SSD, once your enclosure arrives, mount the SSD inside according to the manual and connect it to your computer once so that you can format it.

If you want to use a pre-used SSD for your computer, you need to first make its drive format type the same as that of the existing hard drive, prior to the cloning process.

If you have an old PC with only a mechanical hard drive inside and it's getting too slow, an SSD is a cheap and easy way to get a big speed increase.