Dell Studio 1555 Optical Drive Necessary?

[Thob96]

Hi,

i am new in this forum, though following the Youtube Channel quite a while.

 

Currently i changed the CPU in my Dell Studio 1555 (2009) cause it often ran at 90%/100% and it was very cheap on ebay out of china.

Now i am looking at my optical drive (broken for several years & never needed it) and thinking about leaving it out when i reassemble my laptop. Will be there any booting issue leaving it out? My first thought is "No" but i never changed hardware in a laptop before, exspecially in a system i did not build myself and do not know what kind of problems can appear.

 

So does anybode can help me out? I am planning to reassemble it tomorrow. 

Thanks for your help!

[GuyNamedBrad]

Hey actually you can drop the optical drive and add another hard drive in its place if you want, just look around for some of these: http://www.amazon.ca/Generic-Hard-Drive-Caddy-Studio/dp/B00F6K8YQQ/ref=sr_1_sc_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1456865022&sr=1-2-spell&keywords=dell+studio+1555+harddrive+caddy. 

[Thob96]

Uhhh, nice. Did not think about that.

 

So what about this one? 

http://www.ebay.de/itm/2nd-Hard-Drive-HDD-SSD-Caddy-for-Dell-Studio-1535-1536-1537-1555-1557-1558-1559-/221856028860?hash=item33a7a658bc:g:ZtQAAOSwLVZV0Lhc

(damn these chinese have cheap deals on ebay.. they even add an screwdriver..)

 

So i could throw in my old hdd which i swapped with an SSD a year ago.

[GuyNamedBrad]

Yeah that would definitely work more or less just depends on what you want to go with ssd or hdd I would go ssd (just faster in general).

[Thob96]

Okay, thanks for your help.

 

I will order it and propably take my old hdd into it cause atm i only use the laptop for browsing and office stuff.

It is not the greatest machine but with some cheap upgrades (small SSD, T9600 CPU and 4 GB Ram) it still runs totally fine for me.