SSD Clone or Extra Drive?

[Guest]

Hi guys!

 

I am looking at buying an upgrade SSD for my laptop. I currently have a 1TB HDD as the main drive and a CD drive. I am going to replace the CD drive with a new disk.

 

I am probably going to buy a 240GB SSD. At the moment, my current storage used on my HDD will fit on the SSD.

 

My question is; Should I put the SSD in the drive caddy, replacing the CD drive, or replace the main hard drive cloning the data and then out the 1TB hdd into the caddy.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Dan

[Shadow-R]

Terve!

The only thing I can really say is that it depends on your needs.

If you never used the CD Drive, you should replace it with the SSD. I hope I understood it right that you can do that.

I cannot really recommend to clone all your data to the SSD if you are putting in both drives, since less used data will unnececary chew up space and often changed things can hurt your SSD.

I have seen an SSD fail after under a year, because it was killed with such things.

In case you would need the CD Drive fequently, you can eighter replace it and use an external drive or you can just use the SSD (with you data cloned).

Hope I was able to help you a little.

Sayonara!

P.S. I almost forgot that you eventually could get an SSHD, if you can only use one drive.

[Cell_7]

Just replace the CD Drive with the SSD and you are done.

[saya_kucing]

Why not both? You'll already have the optical drive - unless your mobo only has 2 SATA headers...
SSDs are surprisingly easy to cram in tight spots.

 

OMG. Did not read OP. -.-
Well in that case - consider an SSHD. They're super fast, and if you want the storage with the speed they're pretty damn good (although not as good as SSD). Depending on how much you really want to keep the optical, I use my laptop for a bunch of stuff - so I have an SSHD and kept the optical.

 

If your REALLY want the full-SSD with the 1TB HDD AND the optical - there's the WD Black^2. 120GB of native SSD with 1TB of HDD in a 2.5" form factor. Your system will view the physical drive as 2 drives - and you'll be able to keep that optical to use for... whatever optical is used for now...

[Guest]

Thanks for all the information guys! I think I will go for replacing the CD drive with an SSD!

 

Sorry for the late reply!!

 

Thanks!