I have just ordered an SSD (128Gb) and intend to install Mint 17.1,Rebecca, on it. Is there anything special I need to do before installing? I have the installation disk, but don't remember carrying out any special preparatory tasks when I installed previously. However, I have since read that there are one or two things to do prior to installing, but this tended to be a bit confusing. Thanks in advance.

Not unless you want to. Some people prefer to partition the drive ahead of time using gparted or similar in a live CD, but that's entirely optional, the Mint installer will do it for you if you haven't already.

Once it's installed you might want to edit /etc/fstab and add noatime to the mount options for the SSD, but that's about it.

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Are you replacing the drive in the PC and (re)installing it to the SSD?

If so, and you would like to have your apps/files seemlessly move over with the installation, then you can image your drive using something like clonezilla and install that img to the SSD. Shouldn't give you any issues.

Edit: I would like to add that I recently upgraded from a HDD to an SSD. I literally didn't notice a performance difference so much (though I'm sure there technically was one) that I popped the HDD back in for the extra space and put the SSD on the shelf.

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Thank you both for your time. Useful information.